The Theory and Practice of System D and Urban Moonlighting Text: Gergely Hory Surviving day by day, grey zones, informal networks and moonlighting. Examining these concepts, projects concerning public domains were made by participants of the international workshop titled [Fusi]city-Fix Budapest! The programme itself is a result of close co-operation between the System D Academy […]
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The Fate of Housing Estates 4
Careful Reflections on Orientation in the 21st Century Bellvitge, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona agglomeration, Spain, 1964–1970 Text: Melinda Benkő Photos: Melinda Benkő, Péter Bach We started publishing a series of articles about European prefab-technology housing estates in MÉ 2014/2. Following Grenoble, Magdeburg and Vilnius our author now takes on the task to present an aspect […]
Ferenc Lantos and Architecture
In memoriam of the Master Text: Katalin Keserü It was Lajos Kassák who was the exemplary model for Ferenc Lantos for the new world which could be created not only in painting but also via art. The concept of fine arts included applied arts in his view, and he coined a new catch-all term for […]
A sejtelmes utolsó szoba
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Rudolf Klein: Synagogues of East-Central Europe 1782-1994
Exhibition Guide Külgazdasági és Külügyminisztérium, 2014, 36 page This exhibition invites visitors to persue the architectural testimony to the process of Jewish emancipation in the lands of East-Central Europe. By displaying images of existing synagogues, the exhibition illustrates the two-century-long passage of Jews on paths to liberation. In the 18th century, Jews began to migrate […]
Le Corbusier
The Measures of Man Centre Pompidou, Paris, 29 April – 3 August 2015 The Centre Pompidou is devoting a retrospective to the work of Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, aka Le Corbusier. Not only a visionary architect, urban planner and theorist of modernity, but also a painter and sculptor, Le Corbusier made a profound impression on the 20th […]
Matthias Church
Centuries of the Church of Our Lady in Buda Castle Budapest History Museum, 15 April – 18 October 2015 In spring 2015, the Castle Museum of Budapest History Museum joins forces with the Matthias Church to bring you a grandiose dual exhibition about the profound history of the Buda Castle Coronation Church of Our Lady. […]
Community as resource
The architecture of space&matter Lecture and workshop M56, Budapest, 14-15 May 2015 Space&matter is a young architecture office, based in Amsterdam. Using community networks and existing resources, they create new spatial situations, buildings, and entire neighborhoods. In their architectural, urban planning and cultural projects, the office makes an innovative use of social media: their online […]
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Contemporary Slovenian Architecture 2008–2014 FUGA Budapest Center of Architecture, 20 May – 3 June 2015 Opening: 20 May 2015, 6 p.m. Greetings by Ksenija ŠKRILEC Ambassador of Republic of Slovenia Opening speech by Zsolt GUNTHER architect Lecture by Miha DEŠMAN Curator: Miha DEŠMAN, Kristina DEŠMAN
Hello Wood – Project Village 2015
Csórompuszta, Hungary, 11-19 July 2015 Mahatma Ghandi once said: “the Future of India lies in its villages”. Yet contemporary architectural discourse has focused mostly on the role of the city within society. How many times have we heard that more than half of the world’s population now lives in cities? What if, for a moment, […]
Hello Wood – Balatoni Hekk
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Őrbottyán – Brainstorming Competition
The aim of the brainstorming competition is to collect realizable development proposals for the new city center including different types of institutions and other establishments, which can serve as new impacts in the urban development of Őrbottyán. In the planning program the applicants have to find a possible layout for the specified institutions, with particular […]