Harmonious Contrast

The Conversion of Mende Villa, Budapest Architects: Béla Málnai (1931), Csaba Kovács (2014) Text: Marianna Berényi Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky Built in the 1930s, the villa rated as a progressive one compared to its contemporary resort homes in the Baroque or Revivalist Classicist style. It was composed in the register of Modernist architecture with its flat […]

Simplicity Rich in Details

The Reconstruction of Saint Paraskeva Church, Nesebar, Bulgaria Architects: Todor Mihaylov, Elitsa Andreeva, Emilia Kaleva, Aleksandra Vadinska Text: Vilmos Katona Photos: Evgeni Dinev Nesebar is a 3,000 year-old settlement along the coastline of the Black Sea in Bulgaria. Its church named after St Paraskeva dates from the 14th century when the town flourished. It is […]

Stylish connection

Dwelling house, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Architects: László Tulogdy, Gábor Tóthfalusi Text: Katalin Moscu Photos: László Tulogdy Clients commissioning the house standing on the estate of civil servants named after Andrei Muresanu in Cluj-Napoca are wonderful young people for whom the proximity of the historic inner city was a priority when choosing the site and the real […]

Vienna – Budapest Metropolis along the Danube

Architektur im Ringturm, 21 April – 5 June 2015 No two European cities are as similar in so many ways as Vienna and Budapest. During the founding period, these twin cities were both referred to as the “Queen of the Danube”. At first glance, their ring and radial roads look virtually identical. Their former imperial […]

Salzburg Unbuilt

Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, 28 March – 12 June 2015 This spring the Museum der Moderne Salzburg will offer a completely new perspective of Salzburg with an exhibition devoted for the first time to rejected ideas, failed concepts, and utopian plans for this city. Over the centuries, many outstanding architects have helped to shape the […]

Vienna. The Pearl of the Reich

Planning for Hitler Architekturzentrum Wien, 18 March – 17 August 2015 The 2015 spring and summer exhibition in the Architekturzentrum Wien is devoted to the presentation of building in Vienna under National Socialism. Using Vienna as an example, the construction and planning activity of the Third Reich is presented for the first time in this […]

Continuity, Complexity and Emergence

What is the real for digital designers? Text: Antoine Picon Reality versus the real – despite their difference, these two words are often confused with one another. Their apparent interchangeability calls for an immediate clarification. In this article, A. Picon will distinguish between reality and the real in the field of architecture in a way […]

Borderlines of Architecture

Parametric Architecture Text: Bálint Botzheim Luigi Moretti may have been the very first architect to use the expression „parametric architecture”. In his essays written in the 1940s he focussed on this topic. In his view, parametric architecture studies architecture as a system with the primary ambition to find the architectural components and dimensions which are […]

[Fusi]city – Fix Budapest!

The Theory and Practice of System D and Urban Moonlighting Text: Gergely Hory Surviving day by day, grey zones, informal networks and moonlighting. Examining these concepts, projects concerning public domains were made by participants of the international workshop titled [Fusi]city-Fix Budapest! The programme itself is a result of close co-operation between the System D Academy […]

The Fate of Housing Estates 4

Careful Reflections on Orientation in the 21st Century Bellvitge, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona agglomeration, Spain, 1964–1970 Text: Melinda Benkő Photos: Melinda Benkő, Péter Bach We started publishing a series of articles about European prefab-technology housing estates in MÉ 2014/2. Following Grenoble, Magdeburg and Vilnius our author now takes on the task to present an aspect […]

Ferenc Lantos and Architecture

In memoriam of the Master Text: Katalin Keserü It was Lajos Kassák who was the exemplary model for Ferenc Lantos for the new world which could be created not only in painting but also via art. The concept of fine arts included applied arts in his view, and he coined a new catch-all term for […]