Lessons of the FUGA Anniversary Festival Text: Anna Zöldi Photos: Tibor Zsitva, Ferenc Kocsis In October 2019 FUGA Budapest Architectural Centre celebrated its 10th anniversary, which is a memorable milestone event in its history. Founded in 2009, FUGA has evolved into a brandmark of Gesamtkunswerk commitment, and a genuine and authentic venue of the cultural […]
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Imposing Panorama
EXPO Museum, Shanghai Text and photos: Pál Lővei In Shanghai in 2002 – with the ambition to support the project scheme for the 2010 world exhibition – an exhibition titled „Everything starts with the Expo” was organised to survey the history of the exhibitions. In 2007 a touring exhibition was launched to promote the already […]
Houseing Estates in Towns in Hungary
Baja-Újváros Text: Bálint Somogyi Baja is one of those Hungarian towns that have a history defined by the rivers and waters as well as their continuous changes throughout its existence. This natural factor did not only influence the geographical, economic aspects and structural features of the town’s fabric so far, but is also reflected in […]
For a Rough and Essential Architecture
Notes for a contemporary architectural ethics Text: Antonello Stella “Taking care” – this is, I think, the most cogent incipit in contemporaneity and posed by this call. We architects cannot avoid to take care of the world in which we live, we must know how to interpret it by returning an architecture that corresponds to […]
Meaningful Architectural Ornamentation
On the Synagogue by Lipót Baumhorn in Szeged Footnotes of a doctoral thesis Text and photos: Ágnes Ivett Oszkó Lipót Baumhorn was one of the most fertile architects of synagogues not only in historic Hungary but also in Europe in the „belle époque”. However, he was also active for more than a decade even after […]
Superblock
MÉSZ-MÉK Diploma Prize, 2019 Design: Dávid Kálna, BME Építészmérnöki Kar Consultant: Iván Nagy When a metropolis grows beyond people, the demand to build a city within a city is phrased. It creates an independent space for living in the fabric of the city with a change of scales and dimensions, and thus the need to […]
Ezüst Ácsceruza Díj 2019
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Csomópontok
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Újlipótváros, szem előtt tartva
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Otto Prutscher
Universal Designer of Viennese Modernism MAK, Vienna, 20 November 2019 – 17 May 2020 Otto Prutscher (1880–1949) was an architect and designer, an exhibition designer, teacher, and member of all the important arts and crafts movements—from the Secession to the Werkbund. Prutscher was one of the first students of the Vienna School of Arts and […]
The Playground Project
Architecture for Children DAM, Frankfurt, 9 November 2019 – 21 June 2020 Between 1950 and 1980 the playground was a creative laboratory. In the cities of the Global North, innovative, crazy and exciting projects emerged: Landscape architects, artists, activists and citizens wanted to provide children with the best place for play and try out a […]
Évgyűrűk
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