A4 Studio had an utterly simple idea for this utterly simple construction to reflect the standards of fencing in Hungary by architectural means: a golden medal calls for a golden box. Courage was much needed to come up with such an obvious, pretentious concept in the context of contemporary Hungarian architecture which is permeated by a variety…
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Straw Theatre in Tallinn
The unique theatre of Europe built from straw only stood in the capital of Estonia for six months on the ruins of a former Soviet naval base. It was built in 2011 with the purpose to function as the venue for some unique programmes of the Tallinn European Cultural Centre that summer. It stood on the top of a former Baroque-style earthwork called…
Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis?
The spectacles of vernacular architecture in villages like Liptó and Árva, Tomáš Džadoň artist realized with a shock how dull and uniform prefab housing define the lifestyles of people living there by their bleakness. Almost every other citizen in Slovakia lives in prefab houses. According to the original concept, the artist wanted to remodel one of…
Waiting for a Museum
So far the Museum of Architecture has existed as a collection in Hungary. As part of the concept competition for the Museum District this autumn at last now there is the chance to see the outlines of a scheme of a comprehensive architectural centre featuring independent exhibition areas, research centre, and scientific base facilitating the building…
Architectural Centre or Architectural Museum?
The Architekturzentrum Wien presents its history in a comprehensive publication. Through the 20 years of its existence the institution founded in 1993 has grown into one of the most important forums of architecture which is housed in one of the wings of the downtown MuseumQuartiers otherwise containing contemporary and modern…
On the Nature of Post-Critical Architecture
The so-called architectural criticality was a subject of theoretical debates at the turn of the millennia, through which participants tried to redefine the confines of the architectural discipline and the role of architects amongst basic contemporary changes (economic, politic, social and technological). Debates were generated by members of the…
Stone on Stone. Greeting Ferenc Dávid
Greeting Ferenc Dávid on Behalf of his Colleagues in the Protection of Monuments. This text is an enlarged and edited version of a ceremonial address delivered on October 3rd, 2013 in FUGA to honour Ferenc Dávid, art historian on the occasion of handing over volumes of collected essays proving that belongingness and affinity of the profession…
Stone on Stone. On the 73rd Birthday of Ferenc Dávid
In our collection of essays compiled to honour Ferenc Dávid art historian, we are publishing the results of research work done by 85 Hungarian and Austrian authors in special fields related to the specialties of the jubilant, namely archeology, architecture and art history. Besides case studies of architectural history, it also contains essays on topics…
From Windows to Shopwindows
Part and whole. A constituent of a building which is still an independent unit in itself. Their nicest variations blend with the facades, whilst their disproportionateness may ruin the overall impression of a building. Being subject to licensing, the regulations of shopwindows allow to survey the practices of portal constructions of decades…
Practice-based Education
“Design-build studio – New ways in architectural training” was the title of the symposium held in Berlin at the end of last year which made an increasingly powerful segment the international trend of architectural training palpable. The timeliness of this event lies in the fact that the past few years saw an increasing number of studies associated with…
Communication of Globalising Tribes
The Frankfurt-based Weltkulturen Museum opened its anthropological collection for contemporary design and art, as well as a project area joining the museum building suited to host atelier programmes based on this collection. This initiative could not have been more suitingly scheduled as tribal culture and art has burst to surface with a rush in…
Armand Puig Tàrrech: Gaudí and the Sagrada Família
The topic of the new volume of the series ‘Image-philosophy’ of Typotex is architecture, art history. The building is Spain’s most visited tourist attraction, but according to the author’s concept the book prepares you to see Gaudí’s “vision of peace” as a pilgrimage. In fact, the volume interprets Gaudí’s concept and the Christian mysticism in contemporary…