Founded by the Association of Hungarian Architects, the Pál Csonka memorial medal has been awarded since 1988 in memory and honour of the internationally famous scientist who was also the master trainer of several generations of architects. This recognition is meant to acknowledge the creative cooperation of…
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Friendly Sterility
TEVA is a Hebrew word meaning „nature”. Present also in Hungary from 1993 on, this multinational pharmaceutical works has a 20-hectare premises on the outskirts of Gödöllő reaching into the depths of a forest. Its latest development, the Sterile Centre was opened in autumn 2012 to house an industrial plant complex with the…
Packaging Technology Illusion
The Richter Pharmaceutical Company tends to build with slow-paced consistency: whatever must be touched will require high standards. After the research building and the swimming-pool it is now an uninteresting structure that gave the apropos for an interesting architectural play: however, this can affect the district as well as the image…
Marketing and Architecture
Architecture as a means of corporate marketing represents more and more significant values. This is reflected in the ETH Zurich exhibition this spring that displayed every photo and design submitted for the Marketing + Architecture contest organised for the third time in Switzerland. Eligible were the public buildings recently inaugurated…
Refined Adjustment
Winning the nationwide contest for the reconstruction of protected historical monuments in Timișoara must have been an exceptional challenge for the Archaeus team of architects managed by Marius Miclăuş as Theresa Bastion built between 1736 and 1738 is the only A category monument of the town and the last one to survive…
Decadence – Aspects of Austrian Symbolism
In summer 2013, the Belvedere will be the first museum to highlight the multifaceted positions of Austrian Symbolism in a large-scale exhibition. An in-depth exploration of this significant movement in Austrian art around 1900, which has hitherto almost exclusively been addressed in partial aspects, is long overdue. As a first step, the exhibition…
Uninhabitable Objects
With “Uninhabitable Objects” a topic is being analysed at the Bündner Kunstmuseum, which is of general social relevance. The dwelling – no matter how rudimentary – is of existential significance for human beings. This exhibition is about the subjective-imaginative debate on space and living concepts: “When is something inhabitable?”
The Legend of VÁTI
Gábor Aczél – János Csontos – Tamás Lukovich: Volt egyszer egy VÁTI
Pro Régió Ügynökség, 2013
88 page
Book presentation by Eszter Götz
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Architecture, Identity, Balaton
The committed and pragmatic approach of architects pressed by conditions is a leitmotif in the architectural history of the shores of Lake Balaton that also permeated the experimental forms of waterfront buildings as a rule. This study surveys who and how reflected about the architectural tasks of the Balaton region as well as about the regional…
Ne mutlu Türküm diyene
Of the civilisation of Turkey we typically – and of its architecture almost exclusively -know of the Osmanli, the era of which ended with the peace treaty of Sévres in 1920 after World War I. This also meant a „tabula rasa re-start for the whole nation”. This is when the Modern Age history of Turkey began, starring Mustafa Kemal who – on the ruins of…
General Survey, with Many Question Marks
Hungarian architecture has had its hedge-hopping for several years now. We tried to find the out what the reasons for this are with the intention to straighten it out in a discussion with four architects on some current and rarely discussed issues of practicing the profession, regulations, education and the social prestige of architecture.
Two Cities, Two Schools
During the past two years I taught the fifth Master of Architecture course at the Faculty of Architecture of Kansas State University and following the examples set by some of my fellow lecturers I also prolonged the compulsory six months spent abroad in the fourth year even though only with a one-week stay. First I travelled to Denmark…