Carlo Scarpa (1906–1978) a Decade after the Centennary Text: Péter Klaniczay A three-day programme of celebrating the centennary of Carlo Scarpa’s birth started on June 2nd, 2006. The venues are mainly in the province of Veneto in Italy. On this occasion almost the whole of the country joins the commemorations, including towns, institutions and private […]
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Housing Estates in Towns
Bökényalj in Csongrád Text: Regina Balla Located in the Great Hungarian Plain, Csongrád has a population of 16 564 people and covers an area of 174 square kilometres. More than one fourth of its towndwellers live on the housing estate named Bökényalj which was built back in the 1970s. The ambitions of local urban development […]
Picture Postcard from Modra
Provincial regions in the 21st century Text: Julianna Szabó In May 2016 lecturers and students of REA (Réseau des Écoles d’Architecture de la France et d’Europe Centrale et Orientale) have gathered for the 20th time to make a tour of a burning issue of architecture and urban development. The hosting faculty of architecture in Bratislava […]
Searching for Tools
Architectural Sustainability in Practice and Theory Text: Bence Török Tutor: György Major DLA One of the greatest challenges in our age is an efficient protection of our environment and a responsible way of thinking about our future. A change of attitude is necessary in order to manifest the concept of sustainability in every field of […]
Adobe Workshop
How to approach adobe as a building material in a scientific way? Text: Ádám Bihari The Adobe Workshop was targeted to present the workings of the raw material based on its objective qualities and faculties as a building material, as well as surveying the variety of components and structures made from it and the potentials […]
Luther Chapel
Pestszentlőrinc Concept: András Krizsán The Association of Hungarian Architects (Magyar Építőművészek Szövetsége, MÉSZ) elected András Krizsán as its new chairman at the general assembly of the organisation on June 6th, 2016. The new vice chairmen to support his activities are György Kerekes, János Golda and Gábor Zoboki, whilst new members of the management are Csaba […]
Zaubergarten – Magic Garden
Family Kindergarten, Switzerland Concept: Tamás Lévai, Ágnes Jószai Evoking the world of Daniel Defoe’s famous novel, the garden enveloped in a lush garden was designed by Tamás Lévai and Ágnes Jószai for an international design contest. The scheme had a fresh and different approach to the basic issues ofr how we think of buildings with […]
Eye to Eye
Jewish Cultural Centre, Szombathely Curator: Krisztina Kelbert Design: Ferenc Kassai “It is impossible but necessary, and therefore possible in spite of all (that is, incompletely).” Georges Didi-Huberman wrote this in his book on whether the Holocaust can be explained, written about and understood. This paradoxical aphorism condenses the ‘inexpressible yet expressible’ horrors of the Holocaust. […]
Form Art
Two exhibitions in Vienna Klimt, Kupka, Picasso and Others – Form Art Belvedere, 10 March – 19 June 2016 In the late nineteenth century, art based on form took on specific significance in the Danube Monarchy. Subsuming almost an entire cultural region, “form art” was the expression of a special insight and of a collective […]
Drafting Modernism – Rudolf Weiss
Wien Museum, 14 April – 18 September 2016 Otto Wagner’s master class at the Academy of Fine Arts was the most important laboratory of architectural modernism in fin-de-siècle Vienna. Wagner and his students created visionary designs for an architecture of the future, founding an aesthetic that was rigourously functional and firmly grounded in the materials […]
By the Danube
Yearbook of the BME Doctoral School of Architecture, 2014-2015 BME, 2015, editor: Levente Szabó At the end of the 2014-2015 school year, not only the thematic year with the motto ‘By the Danube’ was closed but also the first five years of the new operation system of the Doctoral School of Architecture, which was launched […]
Ferenc Vámossy: Hungarian Architecture in the 20th Century
Values of our Heritage 1902–2002. I. Volume Tarsoly Publisher, 2015, 276 page, editor: Erzsébet F. Vámossy, Mária Tatai In this monograph Ferenc Vámossy examines the Hungarian architecture of the 20th century focusing on the interaction between heritage and renewal. The focal point is to understand and present the architectural values, to examine the social background […]