Of Parameters

Measurable truths, definitive outcome
Tenderpixel Gallery, London, 22 February to 23 March 2013
In the latter part of the nineteenth century, Georg Cantor revolutionised mathematics with the concept of a set. Not only a collection of objects, a set includes the rules we apply to them.

Redesign in Japan

Rethinking architecture in the disaster zone in Japan
FUGA, Budapest 27th February 2013 6 p.m.
Opening lectures by: Yamamoto Tadamichi, ambassador of Japan, Budapest
Iwanaga Emi, director of The Japan Foundation Budapest
György Pálffy, architect

PIXEL Bricks

Exhibition of the Nyócker Bricks and the Patyolat Bricks Photo Contest
Patyolat // Próbaüzem
Budapest
1st March 2013, 7 p.m.
Invited artists: Krisztián Bódis and Dániel Dömölky

Spacemaker

The Hungarian Pavilion at the 13th Venice International Architecture Biennale
Opening speech by: Gábor Gulyás
FUGA
Budapest
15th February 2013, 6 p.m.

In the Shadow of the Pyramids

The Austrian Excavations at Giza (1912-1929)
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, 22th January – 20th May 2013
In January 1912 an Austrian excavation team began to uncover the first mastaba tombs near the Pyramids of Giza. The campaigns brought to light numerous artworks and objects documenting the cultural history of…

Parallel lands IV.

Exhibition of the Department of Public Building Design, Residential Building, Industrial and Agricultural Building Design and Urban Studies of Budapest University of Technology and Economics

FUGA, Budapest 7th February 2013, 6 p.m.

Stefan Wewerka

Polyfunctionality and deconstruction of everyday objects, irony and humour as weapons and moments of profound insight: these are some of the ideas behind the works by the architect, designer, sculptor and film-maker, Stefan Wewerka (born in 1928, in Magdeburg). In his works, Wewerka pushes against conventional concepts relating to …

The Architect – History and Present of a Profession

Although building is one of the oldest occupations of mankind and architecture is regarded as the mother of arts, the architect’s work and the historical development of the profession are well-known only by a few. An extensive exhibition demonstrates the many changes of the occupational profile, from master builder to artist and from constructing engineer…

Looking for YU

In the interwar period the central power supported the character, the supposed spirituality and the architectural equivalent of the „Yugoslavian ancient race” with neo-Byzantine motifs. Massive monuments, quasi-Byzantine public buildings were erected in the age of the Bauhaus. However, in practice the western and central part of the county…

Cézanne and the Past

In our exhibition we wish to present an overview of Paul Cézanne’s oeuvre and his approach to the past through some eighty to one hundred paintings, drawings and watercolours by the artist supplemented by thirty to forty works (paintings, sculptures, gypsum copies, prints and illuminated books) by sixteenth-nineteenth-century masters.

Druot, Lacaton & Vassal

Ha lerombolunk egy régi épületet és a helyére egy másikat húzunk föl, kortárs karakterrel, azzal semmit nem nyerünk – írta egy tanulmányában három világszerte ismert francia építész: Frédéric Druot, Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal.

World Models

What does the notion of the studio mean today? Is it the locus of artistic creativity, the most natural environment for experimenting and for the creative process? The mysterious place of the creation of the WORK? A refuge and a stage for private rites and rituals? A space consecrated by the artist’s presence, and the place of his or her everyday life…