Detached House, Bugyi Ürbőpuszta Architect: Péter Vékony Text: Tamás Kiss Photos: György Palkó Edged into the territory of the country from the south, this region of sandy hills between the rivers Danube and Tisza is far away from the bustle of Budapest, but still within a proximity easily accessible from anywhere. Architect Péter Vékony and […]
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Aurea Mediocritas
Food Industry Training Workshop, Karcag Architect: Gábor Csanády Text: Levente Móré Photos: Gábor Csanády Restrained and symmetrical organisation matched with pleasant rhythm features the new food industry plant of the Karcag-based Sámuel Szentannai vocational school designed by Gábor Csanády, who respected architectural traditions of the Great Hungarian Plain whilst blending it with contemporary characteristics easy […]
Chopsticks
Medical Center, Budapest, Kőbánya Architects: Roberta Horváth, Erzsébet Mészáros Text: Tamás Ulrich Photos: Erzsébet Mészáros In the former industrial area of Budapest, in Kőbánya, there are rather abandoned industrial halls, warehouse buildings and office buildings of disappeared and disappeared companies. Within the framework of the Kőbánya Municipality’s office renovation program, the reconstruction of the building […]
Schools and Slaps
Federal High School, Aspern Architects: Fuchs & Fuchs Architekten Text: György Szegő Photos: Hertha Hurnaus, Paul Ott Aspern Federal School is located in the largest urban expansion district in the northeast of Vienna, where the provided infrastructure should correspond to the criteria of sustainability. According to the progressive competition programme the Federal Ministry of Education […]
Attraction and Repulsion
Torsos of passage houses in downtown Újpest Text and photos: Anna Kornélia Losonczy, Melinda Benkő Before 1950, when Újpest was integrated as District 4 of Greater Budapest, it had existed as one of the largest towns of the country dynamically developing owing to industrial growth. Its centrally positioned housing estate and the construction of the […]
Spontaneous Architecture in Tirana
Text and photos: Bence Bene The urban architecture of the capital city of Albania is featured by spontaneous development, in various and versatile aspects. In my article below I present three tendencies of its evolution of architecture and urbanism, which is based on a dialogue between informal and formal architecture. The survey focuses on the […]
Thickening Vacancies
Community building cores in new contemporary buildings of Oxford University Text: Tímea Deichler, Dániel Jakab In our present survey we focussed on novelties in spatial organisation featuring three buildings of Oxford University opened in the 2010s. Tendencies in modern education reveal a growing role of community, the share of knowledge, motivation and the continuous presence […]
Albert Kőrössy’s Architecture
Issues of stereotypes and etimology associated with Art Nouveau in Hungary Text: Eszter Baldavári The 150th anniversary of Albert Kálmán Kőrössy’s birth, who was one of the most talented architects of turn-of-the-century Hungary, is celebrated by the opening of the exhibition titled Expertise Woven through with a Taste for Decoration organised by the Museum of […]
The tenement palace where Gustav Mahler moved
Vilmos Freund died 100 years ago Text and photos: András Jeney At No. 7, Teréz Boulevard, Budapest architect Vilmos Freund designed an elegant tenement palace commissioned by landowner Jakab Sváb. Born in Paks and died 100 years ago now, Vilmos Freund (1846–1920) was one of the most formative designers of Neo-Renaissance architecture in Hungary. He […]
Testimonies towards a deeper understanding of Modernist architecture
Ferenc Vámossy: Essays on Architectural Theory Tarsoly Kiadó, 2019, 420 page Text: Mária Tatai Of several hundreds of articles written by Ferenc Vámossy, five have been selected and included in his volume published now. Surveying five independent topics, they make up five pillars of his oeuvre much like in an arch: by reading them one […]
The place in the world of the non-places
István Schneller: Modern Sacred Buildings Typotex, Budapest, 2019 Text: Tamás Meggyesi When holding a book on architecture with beautiful photographs, we are inclined to limit our attention to the illustrations. However, if we start turning the pages, and get engaged in the texts, we may all of a sudden realize that we are participants in […]
Katharina Roters: Anatomy of a Dream
Architectural illusions and city utopies in Armenia Mai Manó House, Budapest, 29 January – 8 March 2020 Text: Borbála Jász Photos: Mai Manó Ház The exhibition presents the visual investigations pursued by Katharina Roters in Armenia since 2000. The artist’s interest for the cultural, ideological contexts and architectural processes that have reshaped the natural and […]