Interview with Regő Lánszki, State Secretary for Architecture, the Ministry of Construction and Transport The new Building Law, which will soon be submitted to the Hungarian Parliament, will bring new opportunities for Hungarian architecture, simplify administration, guarantee quality and planning, and will also set out the most important principles of the new law: the incorporation […]

House of Architects, 2 October Text and photos: MÉSZ In 1998, the International Union of Architects (UIA) declared the first Monday in October as World Architects’ Day to raise awareness of the role of architecture in shaping the human environment. This year, on 2 October, following a long-standing tradition, the Association of Hungarian Architects celebrated […]

Text and photos: MÉSZ On 23 September, this year’s Pál Csonka Medal was awarded at a ceremony in the Hungarian House of Music to Sou Fujimoto, the Japanese designer of the building who has already won several awards in the Hungarian and international architectural scene, as well as his two Hungarian colleagues, Bence Varga and […]

Veszprém, 13–15, September Veszprém, the city of the queens and the European Capital of Culture 2023, hosted the XXVII National Conference of Chief Architects 2023 from 13 to 15 September. The conference was organised jointly by the National College of Architects and the Municipality of Veszprém in the ActiCity Dance and Movement Centre. Discussions and […]

Pesti Vigadó, September 18th Text and photos: MMA This year the Hungarian Academy of Arts once again awarded outstanding figures of intellectual life in Hungary, who have shown a unique oeuvre in the field of art, art theory, art organisation and art administration. Each year each section of the Academy awards prizes to two or […]

UIA World Congress, Copenhagen, 2023 Text: Krisztina Somogyi The International Association of Architects, UIA, organizes its renewal general assembly every three years, where members and interested parties gather from all over the world to discuss the most current architectural topics. This issue in 2023 was sustainability, which was interpreted very broadly at the conference and […]

House of Architects, 31.05. On 31st May, the Association of Hungarian Architects held its annual general meeting in the Károly Kós Hall of the House of Architects. After the welcoming speech by President András Krizsán, Lóránt Perényi, State Secretary of the Ministry of Construction and Transport, Attila Turi, Vice President of MMA (Hungarian Academy of […]

Népliget is the largest park in Budapest’s landscaped park network, with the largest green space and a somewhat derelict and neglected park even though it has a rich past. The renewal of Népliget is therefore one of the key projects of the Dezső Radó Plan. As a first step, the Municipality of Budapest prepared a […]

18th Venice Architecture Biennale, 2023 Text: György Szegő Photos: Hanna Szegő, József Rosta This year, the central exhibitions of the Venice Architecture Biennale were organised by Ghanaian-South African architect Lesley Lokk. In her opinion, it is the continent that is most insecure at present, but also the region where she sees the strongest invention. The […]

Generations and Narratives in Architecture InterMÉSZ is a niche initiative of the Association of Hungarian Architects (MÉSZ) that targets to comprehensively explore the structures and narratives of the professionals in architecture and to create an intergenerational dialogue that allows for direct contact between architectural and theoretical professionals of different generations. The thematic intergenerational conversations will […]