To continue the traditions of the past few years, Pro Architectura award contest was published again in 2021. The goal has been unchanged: to promote outstanding achievements of architects and designers in architecture, landscape art and interior design, to make Hungarian architecture better known, to encourage the creation of high-standard man-made environment, to protect architectural […]
Budapest Architecture Merit Awards 2021
Each year Budapest Architecture Merit Award is awarded on November 15th, the birthday of the capital city to recognize the maintenance, upkeeping and development of the man-made heritage of Budapest based on values with the criteria that works are unique in their harmony with nature and landscape. Due to the pandemic, this year the awards […]
Media Architecture Prize 2021
On November 6th it was the 17th time to award the current year’s outstanding works of architecture with the Media Architecture Prize at the ceremony held in Uránia National Movie Theatre. Founded by Építészfórum, is now a professionals’ event with a past of 17 years, which is unique in the sense that the jury evaluates […]
Hungarian Architecture 2010–2020
MÉK, 2021, 494 pages Text: György Szegő The Chamber of Hungarian Architects surveys the best works of Hungarian architecture in the past decade in this thick bilingual volume. Editor Eszter Dénes, graphic artist András Vizvárdi and the members of the editorial board launched a new series with this publication. This selection offers novelties even for […]
World Architecture Day 2021
Architects’ House, 10. 04. In 1998 UIA, the international association of architects declared the first Monday of October to be the celebration of world architecture to draw attention to this definitive way of shaping our environment. This year the topic of this day was defined in the slogan: „Clean environment for a healthy world”. The […]
The Annual General Assembly of MÉSZ
Architects’ House, September 13th The general assembly of the Association of Hungarian Architects was held in the centre of the Association on September 13th, 2021. Traditionally, this is the event where reports about the yearly activities, achievements and financials of the organization are delivered, and the membership approves of the plans for the next year. […]
On the Heritage of Imre Makovecz on the 20th Anniversary of his Death
Text: György Szegő It is ten years now that Imre Makovecz, our „national architect” died on September 27th, 2011. Here is a commemoration with a personal touch to focus on the foundations of his way of thinking, the harmony of architecture and nature, as well as the responsibility of architects.
National Sample Design Catalog
Family house plan database available free of charge Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Lechner Knowledge Center From March 021, a detailed design documentation of modern family houses can be downloaded free of charge from the new website of the National Sample Design Catalog (mintatervkatalogus.hu). The online family house design database, implemented in collaboration with the Deputy […]
Which Past Leads to the Future?
18th International Congress of Architects, 07. 02. 2021 Text: Bálint Botzheim Photos: Artifex Edition The International Architectural Congress held by the Association of Hungarian Architects, traditionally organized by the publisher Artifex, was held this year in the recently handed over Eiffel Hall. So many came to the first large-scale national event after the epidemic that […]
Csonka Pál-emlékérem 2021: Dr. Sajtos István
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Auditorium
A New Podcast Series of the Association of Hungarian Architects The Association of Hungarian Architects has launched a new podcast series entitled Auditorium, the episodes of which present a house and a modern Hungarian architect who rethought or renovated it week by week. The show conveys an important message: that it is worth saving the […]