Challenges of the Global World

Lecture in the Thursday School of MÉSZ Text: Ervin László Ervin László, a world famous science-philosopher, author and the founder of Budapest Club gave a lecture on December 18th, 2015 in the House of Architects. Organised by a civil academy named Thursday School, his lecture was primarily about the challenges the global world is to […]

A Changing World

A Holistic Approach to the Climate Summit in Paris Text: László Antal Z. Of all the changes affecting nature in the past two decades it was climate change that has generated the greatest interest of politicians, professionals and societies. Several diagnoses have been made of the ecological conditions of Planet Earth in the last decades, […]

Interactions of a Mental Map and Perception

Architecture and psychology, research and planning Text: Anna Losonczi A mental map (mindmap) is an image in our minds about the environment, which is primarily the result of perceptions, and which is constructed along a logic different from traditional geographical maps. It actually modifies according to subjective assessments of values and viewpoints and continuously changes […]

Remodelled Office Block in Kossuth Square, Budapest

Results of the Open Concept Tender The Office of the Hungarian Parliament published the results of the tender for concepts to remodel the office block at No. 6-8 Kossuth Square on December 14th, 2015. Designs based on architectural concepts to work out the facades and mass formation were invited. The call for the contest was […]

A Gentle Person, A Gentle House

Diploma Project, MOME, 2015 Concept: Bori Fenyvesi Consultant: Balázs Marián Although gentleness and tameness are phenomena present in the history of human culture and civilisation for several millennia, we hardly ever associate them with our objcts and spaces even if it could offer an important approach to our accummulated and still more and more accummulating […]

Alejandro Aravena

Alejandro Aravena of Chile receives the 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize He practices architecture as an artful endeavor in private commissions and in designs for the public realm and epitomizes the revival of a more socially engaged architect. 
Chicago, IL (January 13, 2016) — Alejandro Aravena of Chile has been selected as the 2016 Pritzker Architecture […]

The tale of urban regeneration

SEM IX. Conference, Budapest, 23-24 November 2015 23 November 2015 – Conference Venue: Institut français de Budapest, 1011 Budapest, Fő u. 17. 9.30 Opening: Levente POLYÁK (KÉK Contemporary Architecture Centre) 9.45 Dr. Ferenc GEGESY (Mayor of Ferencváros between 1990 and 2010) 10.15 Katalin ANDA (chief architect of Ferencváros between 1989 and 1995) 10.45 Bernard BOCLÉ […]

Re: construction

Exhibition of Hetedik Műterem FUGA Budapest Center of Architecture, 3 December 2015 – 10 January 2016 Opening speech by Ferenc Cságoly Exhibition design: Ákos Polgárdi, Ágnes Rubik Sorry, the opening speech is only available in Hungarian.

Cultural investments 2016

Buda Castle and Liget Budapest – Great cultural investments in Budapest Symposium, Várkert Bazár, 20th January, 2016 Participants of the roundtable discussion: László Baán, director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Ministerial Commissioner responsible for the Liget Project János Krähling, professor at Budapest University of Technology and Economics László L. Simon, Secretary of State […]

Lőrinczi Edit interior designer

Editors: O. Ecker Judit, Oltvai Andrea Chamber of Hungarian Architects, Budapest 2015, 112 page The book presenting Edit Lőrinczi interior designer’s oeuvre is the third volume in the series edited by the Interior Design Division of the Chamber of Hungarian Architects – after István Németh (2009) and Sándor Mikó (2011). Authors: József Finta, Éva Kiss, […]

Balázs Halmos – Katalin Marótzy: Műemlék, rajz, kutatás

Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2015 The book edited by Balázs Halmos and Katalin Marótzy presents the results of the 13 year long research at the St. Michael Cathedral in Gyulafehérvár made by students of the Department for History of Architecture and of Monuments at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. The book […]

Városliget – Város – Vár

Hungarian Society for Urban Planning, 2015 According to the Liget Budapest project the Városliget – Város – Vár book published by the Hungarian Society for Urban Planning accumulate several statements, conferences, lectures, professional and public discussions on the architectural competitions, results, cultural, commercial and social effects, and of course the continous twists accompany the project.