2025

This time, our supplement, Utóirat (Postscriptum) we have selected some of the presentations given at the conference Collecting the Scattered Stones, organised by the Hungarian Museum of Architecture and Documentation Centre for Monument Protection in December 2024 to celebrate the 140 th anniversary of the birth of architect Károly Kós. For briefness, the presentations were […]

Text: Eszter Dénes In the lives of the two intellectual greats, Károly Kós and Imre Makovecz, in their extraordinarily powerful creative behaviour, in the driving forces of their architecture and in their role in the interests of progressive socio-artistic-cultural unity, countless parallels and points of intersection emerge. Their sense of proportion, their abundance of talent, […]

The Survival of Tradition in the Architecture of Kós’s Followers Text: Gábor Erhardt The author of the study compares the contemporary concepts of vernacular, national and modern architecture in the context of Károly Kós’ architecture, the direction of „progress” as formulated by Kós and its examples embodied in plans and buildings, viewing contemporary Scandinavian architecture […]

The Legacy of Károly Kós in the Collections of the MÉM MDK Text: Fanni Izabella Magyaróvári The collections of the Hungarian Museum of Architecture and Documentation Centre for the Protection of Historic Monuments contain about 780 plans and 225 photographs of Károly Kós’s works, that is more than 1,000 objects specifically related to his individual […]

Text: Flóra Medgyesy-Töreky The building complex, situated in the neighbourhood of Városmajor, was built between August 1910 and November 1911, according to the plans of Károly Kós and Dénes Györgyi, as part of the school building programme of Mayor István Bárczy. The elementary school included a kindergarten, a headmaster’s apartment, a kindergarten teacher’s apartment as […]