Urban Photos by György Klösz and Architectural Photography Text: Klára Szarka György Klösz is a highly successful photographer from more than one aspect, having been a popular and much respected creator and well-performing entrepreneur of his age in Hungary at the time following the compromise of 1867. However, he was not forgotten after his death […]
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Informative Image
Architectural Photo as a Visual Tool for Information Flow in the Architecture of the Interwar Period Text: Ágnes Anna Sebestyén From the very beginning, the documentation and mediation of visual information about individual buildings and the man-made environment has always been an important component of architectural photography. Architectural photography has been a significant means of […]
Direct Experience
Forming an Image about the Architecture of Communities Text: Krisztina Somogyi Architectural photography has a serious function: it has to draw attention to architectural quality, and present the qualities of architecture as well as the intentions of its makers. In everyday life we are hardly ever aware of the environment because of its ambient nature. […]
From György Klösz to the Museum of Fine Arts
Text: Péter Baki Architectural photos, much in the same way as any of the genres of applied photography that also serve the needs of clients, are ambiguous when it comes to their artistic evaluation. On the one hand, the sheer existence of clients’ expectations suggests to the observer that in this case the photo was […]
Images of Generating Desire
Text: Judit Gellér Photography in its diverse existence may be rated as an independent genre of architectural photography. Its realization and execution requires precise expertise and professional know-how, it also demands the photographer to choose the appropriate technology, perspectives, timing, whilst the images themselves may not only appear online, but also in printed formats, such […]
World Day of Architecture in AHA
Association of Hungarian Architects October 2nd, 2017 The UIA, that is the International Association of Architects proclaimed the first Monday of October to be the World Day of Architects to draw attention to architecture which has the potentials to modify the environment of people in a formative way. MÉSZ, the Association of Hungarian Architects celebrated […]
Liberty Bridge – New Urban Horizons
16th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Competition for Hungarian exhibition “Liberty Bridge new urban horizons” is the name of the progressive project that’s set to turn heads during the 16th International Architecture Exhibition happening from May 26th through November 25th in Venice. Demonstrating an urban community event (when the bridge became a scene for impromptu summertime […]
Soul of Seoul
The UIA Congress and its XXVIIth General Assembly Seoul, Korea, 3-10 September 2017 This year it was Seoul that hosted the Congress of UIA which is the primary international forum for the professionals of architecture today. Its slogan was „Soul of City”, which is a kind of a word pun as well. Taking place every […]
Vámos Dominika (1963–2017)
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Pásztor Erika Katalina (1961–2017)
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The Mill on the Old Lake Regional Camp and Eco-Centre, Veresegyház
MÉSZ-MÉK Diploma Award 2017 Concept: Mercédesz Erika Nagy The site for design is located near the northern shores of the Old Lake, at the mouth of Sződrákosi spring which feeds the nearby lakes. The dyke of the former mill made of concrete and one of its longitudinal walls with the original place of the wheels […]
Budapest Athletics Stadium
Results of the Design Contest Within the framework of Ferenc Kemény Programme, the Prioritized Governmental Investments Centre Non-Profit Co. published a contest in the spring of 2017 to construct a gap-filling municipal athletics centre which contains a central stadium, a covered hall, as well as open-air practise fields and tracks. 1st Prize: Marcel Ferencz DLA, […]