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 […]
Makovecz 80
International Conference Vigadó, Budapest, 23 November 2015 Text: György Szegő Photos: Magyar Művészeti Akadémia, Mátyás Szöllősi The official title of the conference is „The international impact and reception of the oeuvre of Imre Makovecz”. Reaching well beyond this actual topic, the event was the ceremony of commemoration and also the name-giving ceremony of a most […]
Makovecz Imre. Tervek, épületek, írások 2002-2011
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Piran Celebrtating Architecture
Piranesi Award 2015 Text and photos: Péter Kovács In 2015 Piran Days of Architecture, 58 projects were exposed at Piranesi exhibition, 38 architectural projects were nominated by the national selectors from Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia and Slovenia, and 20 students’ projects were nominated by students’ selectors from Faculties of Architecture from […]
Santiago Calatrava
European Prize for Archutecture 2015 Text: Eszter Götz One of the world’s foremost visionary, utopian, and iconic architects today, Santiago Calatrava Valls, has been named as this year’s recipient of the European Prize for Architecture, awarded by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and […]
Média Építészeti Díj 2015
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Magyar Építőművészetért-érem 2015
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Influence the World
Chairmen’s Meeting, UIA Region II, Cracow Text: László Mikó The meeting of the chairmen of the member countries of Region II, which consists of 32 members and is thus the most populous one, took place on October 15th-16th, 2015. László György Sáros, the chairman of MÉSZ (the Association of Hungarian Architects) as well as Dénes […]
World Day of Architecture 2015
Architecture, Building, Climate Text: Edit Pálinkás In line with the decree accepted by the UIA (Union Internationale des Architectes) in 1998, the World Day of Architecture is held on the first Monday of October every year. This year its events were organised in the spirit of the slogan „Architecture, Construction, Climate”. What is more, the […]
Home-Making Design
Design Week 2015, Budapest–Pécs–Sopron Text: Eszter Götz This year’s Design Week, which is the 12th in a row, focusses on homeyness and coziness, as well as on designing liveable spaces for every-day use, as the reaction to our accelerated lifestyle was born in the form of a brand new concept named „slow life”. This in […]