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2025
Introduction
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 […]
Parallels and Intersections: Károly Kós and Imre Makovecz
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, […]
National, Ethnic or Regional?
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 Power of Objects
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 […]
The Parallels of the Városmajor Street School
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 […]
Physical Changes of State Socialist Small Housing Estates in Budapest from their Construction to the Present Day
Text: Bence Bene Small housing estates were constructed across Budapest during the era of state socialism, characterized by diverse architectural and urban designs. They represent a unique, complex, and internationally under-researched layer of the post-war mass housing construction. Thirty-five years after the regime change, we can assess the success of these developments based on physical […]
Architecture at Close Quarters
Anna Heringer – Dominique Gauzin-Müller: Form Follows Love – Intuitive Architecture from Bangladesh to Europe Text: Lilla Lapinskas Anna Heringer is a leading figure in the type of contemporary architecture using local building materials, bridging the gap between traditional and contemporary industrial adobe architecture in both developed and marginalised regions. In her works she uses […]