Wien Museum, 14 April – 18 September 2016 Otto Wagner’s master class at the Academy of Fine Arts was the most important laboratory of architectural modernism in fin-de-siècle Vienna. Wagner and his students created visionary designs for an architecture of the future, founding an aesthetic that was rigourously functional and firmly grounded in the materials […]
Magnificent Environment
Imre Farkas photo exhibition, Bank Center, 22 April – 5 May 2016 According to the Earth Day the gallery of the Bank Center Budapest organized an exhibition of photographer Imre Farkas. He focuses on the similarities between the natural and architectural order.
Community architecture
Jeney Lajos oeuvre exhibition Lechner Lajos Knowledge Center, 23 May – 30 September 2016 The heirs of Lajos Jeney handded down his professional work to the archives of Lajos Lechner Knowledge Center in October 2015. The Lajos Lechner Knowledge Center honors his heritage with this oeuvre exhibition.
Moholy-Nagy: Future Present
Guggenheim Museum, New York, 27 May – 7 September 2016 László Moholy-Nagy (b. 1895, Borsód, Austria-Hungary; d. 1946, Chicago) believed in the potential of art as a vehicle for social transformation, working hand in hand with technology for the betterment of humanity. A restless innovator, Moholy-Nagy experimented with a wide variety of mediums, moving fluidly […]
Mavericks: Breaking the Mould of British Architecture
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 26 January – 20. April 2016 Mavericks: Breaking the Mould of British Architecture is an installation that will chart the course of British architecture from the sixteenth century to the present day through the work of twelve maverick architects: Robert Smythson, Sir John Vanbrugh, James Wyatt PRA, Sir John Soane […]
Josef Frank: Against design
MAK, Vienna, 16 December 2015 – 12 June 2016 Josef Frank (born in 1885 in the town of Baden near Vienna) is not only one of the most important Austrian architects of the 20th century, but also, with his designs for textiles and furniture, one of the modernist designers whose influence continues to be felt […]
DEMO:POLIS – The Right to Public Space
Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 12 March – 29 May 2016 DEMO:POLIS – The Right to Public Space presents the possibilities that the public has to shape its own city. The anonymous, virtual public space of the Internet and the real streets and squares are both locations for people’s demands as well as subject to their […]
Vízizrí – Workers’ Culture on the Banks of the Danube
Kassák Museum, 4 March – 5 June 2016 Modernisation, industrialisation and the move to the city significantly altered the fabric of Hungarian society at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The evolution of Budapest into a great city, the concentrated nature of industrial work and low-grade mass housing all radically changed the world […]
Pier Luigi Nervi – Architecture for Sport
MAXXI, Rome, 5 Februray – 2 October 2016 This exhibition features a host of drawings, photographs, documents and models from over 60 projects for sports facilities, much of drawn from the Nervi Archive in the MAXXI Architettura collections. A unique opportunity to examine the development of the design and constructional methods of the engineer from […]
IVANKA at the Milan Design Week
Milan Design Week, 12-17 April 2016 IVANKA’s fresh approach to concrete design was again demonstrated at the Milan Design Week between the 12 – 17 April. Next to an exclusive preview to IVANKA QTZ CONCRETE Edition the visitors had also the possibility to discover the KUVARO Volcano Baths. The company marked the 2016 edition of […]
Re: construction
Exhibition of Hetedik Műterem FUGA Budapest Center of Architecture, 3 December 2015 – 10 January 2016 Opening speech by Ferenc Cságoly Exhibition design: Ákos Polgárdi, Ágnes Rubik Sorry, the opening speech is only available in Hungarian.
Czech Houses
Széchenyi István University, Gallery, Győr, 8 February – 4 March 2016 Opening: 8 February 2016, 4.30 pm Opening speech by Jan Stempel curator Focused on family housing, the highlight of contemporary Czech architecture, the exhibition presents 33 exceptional designs by 33 architectural studios offering an insight into contemporary Czech architecture and urbanism. Showing a wide […]