Farmers and Fish Market, Vodice, Slovenia Architect: Dinko Peračić Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Platforma 9,81 In Piran Architecture Days, Vodice Farmers and Fish Market project created by Dinko Peračić, won the top Piranesi award. The structure is a representation of successful urban and social reconstruction. Given that Vodice are a tourist destination, the project respects […]
2016/2
Architecture at the edge of Hungary
Communal Fruit Processing Plant, Markóc Concept, archtiecture and text: Veronika Holczer Photos: Sári Ember, Veronika Holczer The first version of the scheme was made as a diploma work back in 2011. My ambition as a designer then was to spend a longer period in a poor village, take part in local life, and work out […]
Small Scale, Big Change
Lecture by Andres at MOME, 24 March 2016 Text: Eszter Götz In 2010 the New York-based MoMA was the first to present a comprehensive exhibition of social architecture. In 2014 it was opened with the title Think Global, Build Social in Frankfurt-am-Main and then in Vienna. Now in FUGA in Budapest a selection of this […]
Architecture in Austria in the 20th and 21st centuries
Park Books – AZ Wien, 2016, 440 page Text: György Szegő Published more than a decade ago, the former “collection catalogue” of the Architekturzentrum (AZ) Wien gave a survey of 20th century architecture more than a decade ago. This edition of the same publication with the subtitle „in the 20th and 21st century reflects a […]
Mavericks: Breaking the Mould of British Architecture
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 26 January – 20. April 2016 Mavericks: Breaking the Mould of British Architecture is an installation that will chart the course of British architecture from the sixteenth century to the present day through the work of twelve maverick architects: Robert Smythson, Sir John Vanbrugh, James Wyatt PRA, Sir John Soane […]
Post-Modernist Potemkin
Skopje 2014 Text: Rudolf Klein The most recent architecture of Skopje may be associated with the „psychologizing Post-Modernism”, even if it seems to be very close to Social Realism or Kitsch. The past two or three years saw radical changes transforming the image of the inner city of the capital of Macedonia once again. However, […]
Max Fabiani, the Architect of the Monarchy
The Opening Lecture of the AZ W Exhibition Text: Boris Podrecca Every work by Fabiani shares a kind of provoking globally approached concept or idea which may seen as a correspondent of a congenial decision made by the municipal management. He did not change his style or pose for a Biedermeier manner even when reaching […]
Silence as a Concept of Architectural Space
Contemplative Spaces in Church Architecture Today I Text: Vilmos Katona The essay is the first part of an extended study based on the presentation of Vilmos Katona at the 9th Conference of Sacred Architecture and Interior Design taking place in Budapest in 2015, as an event of Ars Sacra Festival. The lead issue of the […]
Xin chao Viet Nam – Greetings to Vietnam!
A Study Trip in Vietnam with the Doctoral School, Faculty of Architecture Text: Bence Török Students and lecturers of the DLA course at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) had their annual study trip to Vietnam this year, after having visited Central and Western European countries so far. The goal of their trips […]
Sacre Coeur Nunnery
Architectural competition – 1st Prize Concept and text: Robert Gutowski The building standing in the palatial quarter of Józsefváros, a district of Budapest, was returned to the Sacré Coeur order of nuns after the change of the political system. The enterprise of the order specialised in the utilisation of real estates named Sophianum Nonprofit Ltd. […]
Gourmet Street Food pavilion
[AC-CA]™ Architectural Competition – 1st Prize Design: Huba Ferenczi, Dániel Silló, Ivett Redenczki, Dániel Pataki The Hungarian design team of four architects working in Budapest and Berlin won the first prize of the [AC-CA]™ Berlin Gourmet Street Food architectural competition. The aim was to create a food stand that is universal in its function and […]
Josef Frank: Against design
MAK, Vienna, 16 December 2015 – 12 June 2016 Josef Frank (born in 1885 in the town of Baden near Vienna) is not only one of the most important Austrian architects of the 20th century, but also, with his designs for textiles and furniture, one of the modernist designers whose influence continues to be felt […]