A Survey of the Winning Schemes Városliget Zrt. published a design contest calling for landscape designs in January, 2016 for the City Park, Budapest, which is to be developed in a comprehensive way, being the very first public park of Europe. Schemes are expected to present values of the area for garden history, as well […]
Light Axis
On the Life, Death and Art of György Csete (1937–2016) Text: Miklós Sulyok Fotó: Zsitva Tibor György Csete had a basic principle on architecture which is best summed up as architecture in Hungarian. To use Hungarian language in architecture instead of foreign ones. His architecture, however, was filled with universal contents: however, it was his […]
Report from the Front – Aectivators
The Hungarian Exhibition of the Biennual in Venice Venice Biennal, Giardini, 28 Junue – 27 November 2016 Curators: Gábor Fábián, Dénes Fajcsák Text: György Szegő Photos: József Rosta / Ludwig Múzeum Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, the chief curator of the 15th Biennial of Architecture in Venice used a national example to explain the „new viewpoint”. […]
Landscape Architect of the Year Award 2016
As usual, the highlight of the series of events associated with the Month of Landscape Architecture was the ceremony of the Landscape Architecture Awards ceremony taking place in FUGA on April 26th, 2016. The jury of professionals chose Geum Landscape Architects’ Office (Csenge Csontos†, Borbála Gyüre and Gergely Lád) as the best candidate in this […]
Landscape Odyssey 2015
Cataloguue of Hungarian landscape architecture Landscape Odyssey 2015 included high quality landscape architectural projects from Hungary, while introduced them country-wide in a frame of an exhibition series as well and disseminated this collection as a catalogue over Central Europe.
Museum of Ethnography
Results of the contest The Liget Budapest Project has announced an international design competition for the new Museum of Ethnography building, to be located on the edge of the Városliget (City Park). Fifteen prominent international and Hungarian architect offices will participate in the restricted tender for the design of the new museum building, including for […]
National Awards and Prizes
March 15th, 2016 Initiated by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, János Áder, President of Hungary handed over national awards of merit on the anniversary of the Revolution and War of Independence in the 1848/49. The prizes were delivered by Ministers János Lázár and Zoltán Balogh. Of the authors given recognitions now we are hereby writing about […]
13th International Architecture Congress
16 March 2016 Text: Anna Zöldi The 13th International Architectural Congress sensitively reacted to what mostly excites Europe nowadays: it has invited its lecturers with the slogan „the meeting of cultures”. Although there were only five genuinely international lecturers, we could grasp a comprehensive survey wittingly embedded into a framework reflecting our local conditions. It […]
8th Budapest Architecture Film Days
3-6 March 2016 Text: Anna Zöldi Organized for the 8th time this year, the days of films on architecture has been true to its original mission again. Evolving into the most prestigious event of the region, this survey of films does not only evoke architecture as clad in an artistic kimono or a majestic robe, […]
MOME Campus Development Scheme
Results of the Contest In accordance with the governmental decree dating from 2014, the most significant development scheme of the creative industry in Hungary was launched at the Moholy-Nagy University of Arts with the aim to create MOME Campus – Creative Innovative Science Park primarily ambitioning to protect the existing values of the campus as […]
Public Buildings – Changing Aspects
Lectures and Discussion, FUGA, January 22nd, 2016 Text: Eszter Götz The Public Buildings Design Department of the Budapest University of Technology has commemorated its 70th anniversary. Head of the department, Mihály Balázs and his colleagues decided to celebrate it by defining its present position and trying to find its possible trends of the future instead […]
Freestyle or In a Responsible Way
Opinions on the Cancellation of Licensing the Construction of Detached Family Houses Text: Éva Tétényi A governmental decree came into effect at the end of December, 2015 with the ambition to simplify the licensing procedure of constructing detached family houses with an area of less than 300 m2. Written as apropos of this decree, this […]