Inaugurated recently, the museum of Jewish history in Warsaw was designed by a Finnish architect, Rainer Mahlamäki. It faces the monument erected in 1948 to honour the ghetto revolt of 1943, joining it to make an integral spiritual – and to some extent also formal – unity on the site of the former ghetto, in the fabric of Warsaw made up of mainly…
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Architects’ Camp in Bihar
It is the third year now that the Creative Workshop named dAM has been organized with the participation of young architects from the city. Registered in 2012 as the Creative Worskhop Architects’ Association, it was targeted to support and assist the continuous in-service training of architects and those interested in architecture living and working…
The Rebirth of the Heart of a Settlement
My diploma design is meant for my hometown, Alsónémedi to salvage at least partially the buildings of the former stationery factory in the centre standing vacant now for more than a decade. now. My plan is to clad this fragment of the past in a new, yet recognizable attire by retaining some parts of the existing building stock within the framework of…
Common Space – Common Heritage
The Hungarian government announced the launch of the National Heritage Program in 1998. In ten years an amount of roughly 7,5 million dollars was spent on restoring approximately 300 architectural monuments related to Hungarian cultural history located outside of the current borders of the country. Subsidies were mainly directed towards…
Revolutionary, Prophet, Worker
Dinning with prophets and scratching revolution as a socialist Dürer, Béla Kondor is still a legendary artist and is considered as one of the most significant artists of the Kádár era. Based on the legendary and the works left behind, the figure of an „uomo universale”, a modern Leonardo da Vinci was outlined in the art history and incommon knowledge.