2021

The Birth of a New Sacred Typology Text: Zoltán Major The developments and processes of globalisation and multiculturality appear in contemporary societies both informally and formally, they are translated into our urban spaces. When immigrating groups of people recycle, reutilize and transform existing buildings that tend to be abandoned, they do not do it with […]

Valerio Olgiati’s Architecture as Reflected in His Own Design Theory Text: Bendegúz Zacher The comprehensive thoroughness featuring the book titled Non-Referential Architecture by Valerio Olgiati is a rarity in the genre of contemporary design theoretical discourses. The standards of the text, as well as the typography, layout, the physical qualities of the hard-cover book also […]

Contemporary memorial projects and their predecessors Text: Flóra Perényi Born in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sabina Tanovic is an architect graduating from the Sarajevo University, who started research into the theoretical background of the correlations of memory and architecture apropos of a professional invitation; in 2007 she was commissioned with the designs of the memorial site of the […]

Thoughts Apropos of Martijn de Waal’s The City as Interface Text: Imre Bokányi In a study published in 2014 in Rotterdam, de Waal projected the software parallels well-known from the specialist literature dealing with the smart cities to the complex systems of cities. The city as interface is the place where independent systems meet, interact […]