Max Fabiani, the Architect of the Monarchy

The Opening Lecture of the AZ W Exhibition Text: Boris Podrecca Every work by Fabiani shares a kind of provoking globally approached concept or idea which may seen as a correspondent of a congenial decision made by the municipal management. He did not change his style or pose for a Biedermeier manner even when reaching […]

Silence as a Concept of Architectural Space

Contemplative Spaces in Church Architecture Today I Text: Vilmos Katona The essay is the first part of an extended study based on the presentation of Vilmos Katona at the 9th Conference of Sacred Architecture and Interior Design taking place in Budapest in 2015, as an event of Ars Sacra Festival. The lead issue of the […]

Xin chao Viet Nam – Greetings to Vietnam!

A Study Trip in Vietnam with the Doctoral School, Faculty of Architecture Text: Bence Török Students and lecturers of the DLA course at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) had their annual study trip to Vietnam this year, after having visited Central and Western European countries so far. The goal of their trips […]

Sacre Coeur Nunnery

Architectural competition – 1st Prize Concept and text: Robert Gutowski The building standing in the palatial quarter of Józsefváros, a district of Budapest, was returned to the Sacré Coeur order of nuns after the change of the political system. The enterprise of the order specialised in the utilisation of real estates named Sophianum Nonprofit Ltd. […]

Gourmet Street Food pavilion

[AC-CA]™ Architectural Competition – 1st Prize Design: Huba Ferenczi, Dániel Silló, Ivett Redenczki, Dániel Pataki The Hungarian design team of four architects working in Budapest and Berlin won the first prize of the [AC-CA]™ Berlin Gourmet Street Food architectural competition. The aim was to create a food stand that is universal in its function and […]

Josef Frank: Against design

MAK, Vienna, 16 December 2015 – 12 June 2016 Josef Frank (born in 1885 in the town of Baden near Vienna) is not only one of the most important Austrian architects of the 20th century, but also, with his designs for textiles and furniture, one of the modernist designers whose influence continues to be felt […]

Gábor Dénes Award 2015

Ifj. István Kistelegdi Sorry, this content is only available in Hungarian.

Gábor Farkas architect’s album

Farkas Építésziroda, 2015, 416 page Sorry, this content is onlyavailable in Hungarian.

DEMO:POLIS – The Right to Public Space

Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 12 March – 29 May 2016 DEMO:POLIS – The Right to Public Space presents the possibilities that the public has to shape its own city. The anonymous, virtual public space of the Internet and the real streets and squares are both locations for people’s demands as well as subject to their […]

Vízizrí – Workers’ Culture on the Banks of the Danube

Kassák Museum, 4 March – 5 June 2016 Modernisation, industrialisation and the move to the city significantly altered the fabric of Hungarian society at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The evolution of Budapest into a great city, the concentrated nature of industrial work and low-grade mass housing all radically changed the world […]

Pier Luigi Nervi – Architecture for Sport

MAXXI, Rome, 5 Februray – 2 October 2016 This exhibition features a host of drawings, photographs, documents and models from over 60 projects for sports facilities, much of drawn from the Nervi Archive in the MAXXI Architettura collections. A unique opportunity to examine the development of the design and constructional methods of the engineer from […]

Zaha Hadid (1950-2016)

Sorry, György Szegő’s commemorative words are only available in Hungarian.