General Meeting of the Association of Hungarian Architects (MÉSZ)
6 May 2013
György Vedres Prize 2013
Tamás László
2013/4
The Future of the Past
The Architectural Department of the Hungarian Academy organized a conference on the mid-term development of Budapest. Lecturers took it in turns to present the issues concerning the future of the city, aspects of development and approaches, the problems related to the maintenance of the infrastructure and building stock…
Pragmatic Regionalism
The Waldorf school has been based in this village in the Pilis Hills for almost ten years. At the beginning it had some 30-40 students, but their number has increased to 200 by now. As the institution needed more and more space, building a school was a must also because of the intensive motor traffic making life here more and more stressful.
Contemporary Music Palace from Melody Fragments
The inner part of Ferencváros has been enriched with a significant new cultural venue. With this project music life in Budapest has simultaneously been presented with a contemporary representative institution which had been needed for decades now. The continuous spiritual presence, the state-of-art spaces of high-tech acoustics…
The Classic Elegance of Everyday
Born in Copenhagen as a child of a Norwegian father and a Danish mother just 200 years ago, Theophil Hansen is rated as a significant architect of the 19th century. He travelled a all over Europe with stopover in Athens, Berlin, Innsbruck, Verona and Venice. However, his most influential period was that spent in Ringstrasse, Vienna.
History and Poetry
The exhibition not only dedicate itself to aspects of Schinkel’s oeuvre regarding the history of architecture and building aesthetics; rather, the entire Schinkel art universe is investigated with special attention given to the transformation achievements of the early historism period. Prior to the exhibition, the Federal Ministry of Education…
Chapels for the „Other Hungary”
Ágnes Kovács has designed three chapels in the past eight years in the North-East of Hungary: St Jacob’s in Sajóhídvég; St Elizabeth’s Chapel and Gipsy Missionary Centre in Kesznyéten; the Virgin Mary’s Chapel (also known as Barracks Chapel or Memorial Chapel of Recsk) in Mátramindszent. The common feature of these chapels…
Chair-Twister – New Researches Concerning Space
The free Gesamtkunstwerk company named képzetTtársítás („association”) is a kind of experimental team: it has been organized around the resonances of experiencing space and intuition. The first stage of the birth of the production is that the team’s leader makes a tour of the chosen space: his steps and breaths slow down…
Downtown Function-Hunting
In cities the size of Budapest, the issues of sustainability tend to be on the agenda more and more frequently. By the triple pillar of sustainable development we mean ecological, economic and social sustainability, the third category used primarily as a synonym for communal designing. The present research focusses on the facelifted…
Teach with Gentle Words, Letting Them Play…
Professionals elaborating architects’ training in Győr – Attila Bodrossy, Tamás Czigány and members of the generation joining them, András Cseh and Ádám Tátrai – regard it their mission to encourage their students to search for and find simple architectural answers free from attraction. If the adjective average was not a curse…
Reconstructing the Past Future
After the downfall of the Berlin Wall an inspiring field of research was offered to a whole generation of post-socialist landscape artists. While looking for surprising informal urban situations or worn visions of the future many have viewed the objects of socialism as purely aesthetic phenomena: removing them from their context…
Unknown Stories
In the Vienna-based Architekturzentrum the exhibition open till February was the very first attempt to present a comprehensive view of the architecture the non-Russian member states of the former Soviet Union created between 1950 and 1991. The research and the exhibition pushed into the background the perspectives formed by Russia…