A Garden of Eden in the Shadow of a Coup d’État

Expo 2016 Gardening World Exhibition Antalya, April 23-October 30th, 2016 Text and photos: Pál Lővei Turkey has been one of the most industrious participant of gardening exhibitions and world exhibitions for about 25 years now. Since then its presentations tend to be of larger and larger scales, and integrate contemporary architecture and design with well-conceived […]

A tervezés útvesztője

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World Architecture Day – Design a Better World!

October 3rd, 2016 According to UIA, the International Union of Architects significance and responsibilities of architectural design continuously grow as the challenges are more and more intense worldwide, which shows an ever extending role of architects in improving the standards of living. UIA heralds that the achievements of architecture are powerful and have the capacity […]

World Architecture Day 2016

3 October 2016 The International Union of Architects (UIA), representing the world’s 1.3 million architects, announces the theme of World Architecture Day 2016 (Monday, 3 October 2016): “Design a Better World.”
 As the range of global challenges grows and intensifies, the role of architecture, planning and design are becoming ever more critical to ensuring a […]

The new chairman of MÉSZ

András Krizsán DLA The Association of Hungarian Architects (Magyar Építőművészek Szövetsége, MÉSZ) elected András Krizsán as its new chairman at the general assembly of the organisation on June 6th, 2016. The new vice chairmen to support his activities are György Kerekes, János Golda and Gábor Zoboki, whilst new members of the management are Csaba Kovács, […]

13th International Architecture Congress

16 March 2016 Text: Anna Zöldi The 13th International Architectural Congress sensitively reacted to what mostly excites Europe nowadays: it has invited its lecturers with the slogan „the meeting of cultures”. Although there were only five genuinely international lecturers, we could grasp a comprehensive survey wittingly embedded into a framework reflecting our local conditions. It […]

8th Budapest Architecture Film Days

3-6 March 2016 Text: Anna Zöldi Organized for the 8th time this year, the days of films on architecture has been true to its original mission again. Evolving into the most prestigious event of the region, this survey of films does not only evoke architecture as clad in an artistic kimono or a majestic robe, […]

Utopias and Realities: Socialist Modernism

Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, 28-29 April 2016 ‘Utopias and Realities: Socialist Modernism’ is a two-day long series of lectures, movie screenings and events connected to post-war Central and Eastern European architecture. From the forgotten Communist monuments of Bulgaria to the genealogy of the Alexanderplatz and to public buildings and transportation hubs of the former Socialist countries, […]

The tale of urban regeneration

SEM IX. Conference, Budapest, 23-24 November 2015 23 November 2015 – Conference Venue: Institut français de Budapest, 1011 Budapest, Fő u. 17. 9.30 Opening: Levente POLYÁK (KÉK Contemporary Architecture Centre) 9.45 Dr. Ferenc GEGESY (Mayor of Ferencváros between 1990 and 2010) 10.15 Katalin ANDA (chief architect of Ferencváros between 1989 and 1995) 10.45 Bernard BOCLÉ […]

Thinking Spatially

Book presentation Hungarian Society for Urban Planning, 4 february 2016, 5 pm Program 17:10 Greetings – Imre Körmendy, president of the Hungarian Society for Urban Planning 17:20 Anniversary greetings – Phil Williams, president of the Royal Town Planning Institute 17:40 Why “spatial”? – Dr Mike Harris, RTPI 18:00 Why “thinking”? – Roland Láposi 18:20 Roundtable […]

Thursday School XXI

Lecture series organized by the Architectural Department of the Society of Village Development and the Association of Hungarian Architects in the House of Architects 4 February 2016, 5 pm Dezső Horváth psysicist THE CREATION OF THE WORLD – BIG BANG AND GENESIS 10 March 2016, 5 pm Lajos Szántai historian HISTORICAL RESEARCH OF THE ROYAL […]