As a highly complex and versatile movement, Arts and Crafts was closely associated with the evolution of modern industrial society and the appearance of new social strata. Improving living standards, combined with an insight into past and traditional (regional) environment, the appreciation of manual labour were all important constituents.
2013/9
Héttorony Festival
The Héttorony Festival (Festival of the Seven Towers) is dedicated to the legacy of Imre Makovecz architect. The Hungarian Pavilion in Sevilla was opened 20 years ago – and this event provided the apropos of this years festival all around the Carpathian Basin. Concerts, exhibitions, lectures, architectural walks were held in Subotica, Makó, Csenger…
King Matthias in Florence – Bartók and his Age in Paris
The audience of these legendary museums is welcome now to imposing exhibitions presenting two renaissance periods of Hungarian arts, evoking the culture and humanist spirit of King Matthias Corvinus and the revival of music and painting at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The top achievements of our culture illustrated here by works…
Bercsényi 28-30
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the periodical Bercsényi 28-30, former editors, authors, boarders and readers organised an exhibition in FUGA Budapest Architectural Centre to evoke the bygone scene and periodical of tolerated/prohibited architecture, fine arts, music, performance. A symposium was also held…
Academic Harmony
More than a century ago, the foundation of the Music Academy (1875) followed by the construction of the building after designs by Flóris Korb and Kálmán Giergl (1907) was a cause with the potential to create culture, scale beauty and build a community. In the wake of Ferenc Liszt, the high standards of education and concerts established…
People’s Opera Reloaded
Besides the Music Academy, Erkel Theatre was also restarted to join the cultural circulation of Budapest with the primary mission to offer the young generations high-standards performances and thus to introduce them to the world of opera and ballet. The forerunner of Erkel Theatre, People’s Opera was built in 1911 as the largest theatre of Budapest…
A Baroque Tale
Standing next to the castle of Fertőd, this special building was used for 150 years as a granary and still preserved the puppet theatre favoured by the aristocracy in the Baroque era, which is a unique one in Europe. This marionette theatre was opened in 1773 in honour of Queen Mary Theresa with Philemon and Baucis, the single marionette opera…
The Harmony of Contrast
Bearing stylistic features of Romanticism and the Neo-Romanesque style, St Maur’s college was built after designs by Gáspár Fábián and Andor Pilch in 1929 and was used by the University of Pécs in this function till 2008, when its reconstruction and extension was begun. From September, 2010 it has housed the administrative centre and the rector office…
Reflections
In 2003 the French minister of Culture published a contest to house the newly established Louvre museum in the regions of France. It was only the youngest region, Nord-Pas Calais which submitted applications, simultaneously for five cities of which Lens, the former mining centre was selected. For the 2005 tender for the museum building more than…
Strictly Installed
Designed by Pedro de Ribera, the military barracks was built in 1720 in Madrid to accommodate about 600 soldiers and 400 horses of the royal guard of Philip V. Abandoned in 1969, the building now temporarily houses cultural establishments and is going to be completely revived to change its military function to that of culture after the tender-winning…
Everyone is an Architect
The Calvinist church in Helvécia has been born as a building sounding the praises of God as the fruit of the inner spiritual motif driving and moving the faithful, leaders of the community, their pastor, sponsors and builders. Each participant is simultaneously a creator contributing to it either via donation, organisation and enthusiasm, by drawing the plans…
Diminutive Axe of the World
Designed by Kiev-based architectural group rDS Bothers, the silhouette of the chapel is taken from traditional ukrainian wooden church tower. Surroundings of pinewood forest conditioned vertical shape of the chapel encompasses a small floor area which is compensated by high interior space. A square floor plan, thanks to tilted walls, twisted at an angle…