Kindergarten, Semily, Czech Republic Architect: Marek Topič Text: Eszter Götz Photos: BoysPlayNice The new Kindergarten in Semily (CZ) designed for 110 children combines a classic municipal kindergarten and a Waldorf kindergarten in a single building. The aim was to create a building with centralized facilities and a kitchen for two independent two-class kindergartens for children […]
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Continuity and Layering
Education Centre, Pellérd Architects: Tamás Getto, Tímea Schunk Text: Péter Zilahi Photos: The Greypixel In 2003, a competition was launched for the contemporary re-design of the town centre of Pellérd, in which Tamás Getto and his colleagues’ concept won. Their idea was to define a new main square along the main road on the southern […]
Restoring a Sense of Home
Krausz Palace, Budapest Architect: Péter Bordás Text: Gabriella Uhl Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky This grandiose building with its lavish design and decoration was built by Lajos Krausz in 1882. The first floor was then occupied by the Krausz family, whilst the other floors were rented apartments for the upper middle classes, and the ground floor housed […]
A Laboratory in the Park
Bosch Budapest Innovation Campus Architect: Marina Annus Text: Péter Debreczeni Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky Bosch Innovation Campus is a building complex that seeks to integrate harmoniously into its surroundings, and although it incorporates all the design principles of contemporary office architecture, from communal design to highly automated office spaces and energy-saving solutions, its main asset is […]
Theatre Pedagogy Workshop, Győr
MÉK-MÉSZ Diploma Award 2023 Text and concept: Mátyás Weisz Consultant: Balázs Falvai DLA Theatre education, drama pedagogy as a form of education and training combines traditional education with the theatre, and thus makes learning more colourful for children. Drama education training takes place mostly on-site in schools. The plan will provide a home for theatre […]
School in Social Space
Text: Krisztina Somogyi Numerous studies in environmental psychology have shown that the place where we live shapes us, influences us, and of course we shape it. We become attached to places that we like, we take care of them, we return to them for the sheer pleasure, while other, unpleasant places may even attract deviant […]
Space and Learning
CAN Architects’ Work on Space and Education Text: András Cseh DLA, József Élő, Szilárd Köninger, Dávid Németh, Ádám Tátrai CAN Architects was founded by a team of architects who are both active design architects and educators. In the cooperation of different age groups, they have learned that various existing knowledge, creativity and initiative can complement […]
A 21st-century Architectural Language Lesson
Design process as a Continuous Translation Task or the enlargement of Grassalkovich Elementary School in Vecsés Text: Melinda Bognár Varied media, different formats, various tools, all in the service of communicating an idea. The symbiosis of verbal, visual and formal languages contributes to the realisation of the architectural work through a variety of media, while […]
Building a Community
Reflections on the Value of Socially Motivated Community Building Projects Text: Péter Fejérdy The wave of socially-sensitive projects often realized by community-building projects that emerged around the turn of the millennium also opened up exciting new ways in Hungarian architectural education in the 2010s. Students and teachers are eager to choose marginalised communities as the […]
House or Tails?
Utopia in Contemporary Architecture Text: Zsófia Szántay Photos: Budapest Galéria What is utopia and what makes it good? What do literary utopias teach us? How does utopia affect architecture and can it be found in the contemporary design community here in Hungary? The exhibition titled “House or Writing?” in the exhibition hall of the Budapest […]
Wendingen Cover Stories
A Unique Dutch Magazine and its Hungarian Implications Text: István Németh The Wendingen journal, which was launched at the same time as De Stijl in January 1918 and, like De Stijl, continued to be published until the early 1930s, owed its contemporary popularity and international fame perhaps above all to its unique image, its unparallelled […]
Regenerative future
Space10 application Text: Bálint Botzheim Space10, IKEA’s creative lab, closed its doors this year after almost 10 years of operation. The innovation lab has been active in a wide range of activities, involving the general public. One of their latest proposals was called Regenerative Futures. In the competition, participants were asked to imagine their immediate […]