Rabbi House, Mád Architect: Zsolt Szécsi Text: Tamás Kiss Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky Tokaj-Hegyalja is a region hiding cultural treasures of several centuries. Villages in this area have images closely intertwined with traditional viticulture and winemaking. This culture evolving from these landscape features and facilities has defined the everyday lives, arts and the character of the […]
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Within a Rational Framework
Portus Home Guesthouse, Dörgicse Architect: Barna Kovács D. Text: Tímea Papp Photos: Tamás Bata Portus Home Guesthouse was completed at the beginning of summer in Kisdörgicse, which is probably the tiniest village of the region north of Lake Balaton. Its owners started this project with the intention to create a place for recreation where visitors […]
A Message Understood
The Reconstruction of the Railway Station, Keszthely Architect: Szilvia Flachner Text: Miklós Okrutay Photos: Szilvia Flachner The building of the railway station in Keszthely is typical of the early 1960s representing everything that could have happened to a structure with such a past. From beneath the layers continuously settling on it, it hardly gets exposed […]
„It rings a bit in its dream”
Tram Garage, Budafok Architect: Ákos Takács Text: Zoltán Dragon Photos: Áron Lality Between 1899 and 1911 the industrial complex originally built for the Suburban Electric Railway of Budapest-Budafok was completely demolished with the exception of two blocks. The structure of the surviving tram garage in Budafok has further deteriorated during random extensions throughout the decades […]
Paradise Found
Artists’ Houses, Sørvær, Norway Architect: Sami Rintala Text and photos: Anett Mizsei Near the Arctic Circle, the northernmost line of the Norwegian railway network also comes to an end. The last station is a town called Bodø,from where one can travel only by plane or ship. This is where Sami Rintala, a Finnish-born architect settled […]
To Preserve and Move On
The Reconstruction of the Community House of Hungarian Calvinists in Košice, Slovakia Architect: János Krcho Text: Péter Pásztor Photos: János Krcho On the site next to the parsonage of the Calvinist church, but closer to the Calvinist church than the parish itself, there is a residential building of medieval origins. The real estate is possessed […]
The Container
Text: Hannes Böhringer Hannes Böhringer identifies the tub of Diogenes with the container in which everything possible has enough room for themselves as it is empty. Somewhere it empties everything that we load it with; it only stores them temporarily. Modern design tries to put an end to this chaos within the for good and […]
In a New Period
The Edited Version of a Comment Contributing to a Conference Text: György Tasnádi Interior architects tend to live continuously in the changes their profession’s identity is undergoing, as needs and requirements have changed quickly and many times. Besides, our competence goes beyond architectural interiors. We are justified to talk about the fact that the expression […]
…and who remembers that yellow bench in the garden?
Eco-design, new paradigm? Text: József Zalavári DLA Economic and environmental crises that occur periodically warn us of dangers of product development dominated by marketing and its unsustainability in the long run. A latent change of paradigms took place in design management and product development at the turn of the century. Design has acquired its new […]
East-West Passages
Towards an Integral History of Post-War Architecture in Europe Eds. Ákos Moravánszky – Torsten Lange – Judith Hopfengärtner – Karl R. Kegler: East West Central. Re-Building Europe 1950–1990. Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag 2017, 3 volume) Text: Béla Kerékgyártó What was the link between the western and eastern halves of Europe which had been divided according to […]
Bonding Metaphors
Metaphors in Architecture and Urbanism. An Introduction Edited by Andri Gerber, Brent Patterson, Transcript Verlag, 2013 Text: Dániel Veress The book reviewed below is a gap-filler publication which we had waited for long. It is easy to see that metaphors are present everywhere in architecture (as well), and their presence is of course even more […]
To Build Without Frontiers
Or how a painter’s canvas turns into a universal building component Text: Vilmos Katona The international trend of art born in 1946 which was planted in South America in the wake of the Russian avantgarde of a generation of artists such as Malevich, Kandinsky, Tatlin and Lisicky had already made firm steps towards the novelty […]