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Péter Haba Receiving Opus Mirabile Text: Pál Lővei The Art History Science Board of the Hungarian Science Academy launched its Opus Mirabile award in 1995 to recognize the best publications on art history in the previous year. Initially, the board assessed two categories, but for quite a long time now it has also been employing […]

Mostra Internazionale di Architettura La Biennale di Venezia 1980–2021 Text: Géza Boros ASAC (Archivio Storico delle Arti Contemporanee), the historic archives of the Venetian Biennale keeps publishing the data bases of the sections of the Biennale as a series. In 2019 the volume on the film festival, in 2020 that of fine arts and in […]

A Short History of the Rákóczi Castle in Borsi Text: József Sebestyén Near Sárospatak and Sátoraljaújhely, right next to the Hungarian border Borsi, a tiny village is located in Slovkia. First mentioned authentically in 1221, the settlement was owned by noblemen and landlords from various families throughout the Middle Ages. As a result of a […]

A Survey of Interventions in the Countryside Text: Sarolta Rab The Romanian journal Zeppelin published an issue in the summer of 2021 titled Vidéken (La țară – In the Country) with a comprehensive introduction to survey in details the potentials of reactivating society with the means of rural vernacular architecture of the villages based on […]

On a Review of Aravena Titled A Half-Happy Architecture Text: Balázs Rose 2016 was an exceptional year in Alejandro Aravena’s life. Besides the Pritzker Prize, the architect from Chile has also been acting as the chief curator of the 15th Venetian Architectural Biennale. It is quite a unique achievement that within a year, he received […]