Young designers starting their careers are supported by the Moholy-Nagy scholarship founded in 1988 to mature the most recent ideas of Hungarian design. It has been a tradition for years now that those granted this scholarship present their works at an exhibition in the Museum of Applied Arts. Some of the most exciting materials on display…
Art and Science
Designed as a symbolic gesture of welcome to guests from across the globe, the lotus-inspired ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands is the premier museum destination in Singapore for major international touring exhibitions from the most renowned collections in the world. Embracing a spectrum of influences from art & science, to media & technology…
Interior Design Exhibition
„Az emberi környezet tudatos formálója a belsőépítész” – állítja a FUGA, azaz a Budapesti Építészeti Központ manifesztumként/segélykiáltásként értékelhető kiállítási vezetője. A vezető első oldala nem áll meg az egymondatos megfogalmazásnál, hanem precíz meghatározást ad a belsőépítészet fogalmáról, illetve szinte munkaköri leírásként pontosítja…
Two Exhibitions in Mai Manó House
Gábor Kasza: Y
András Balla: Illatos kert
Hungarian House of Photography – Mai Manó House
01. 21. – 03. 20. 2011
Best Highrises 2010
On November 5, 2010 the international Highrise award was bestowed for the fourth time by the City of Frankfurt/Main in collaboration with DAM and DekaBank. This time “The Met”, a high-rise apartment building in Bangkok, Thailand, has won the prize, worth EUR 50,000, for the world’s most innovative high-rise. Extremely efficient both ecologically and in economic…
Masters of European Secession
Through the travelling photo exhibition “Masters of European Secession – Barcelona – Brussels – Budapest”, the secession goes around the three B-cities, from January. In each city, 50 large, weather-resistant panels will be displayed on a special ‘venue’: on the fence of a building of some special importance.
Richard Neutra in Europe 1960–1970
Through his houses in southern California Richard Neutra became one of the most important architects of “classical Modernism”. He combined variable spatial configurations with large glass fronts to create open ensembles, embedded in the surroundings. In his final creative years Neutra also completed a number of fascinating buildings in Europe.
Flying Classrooms
The rooms we learn and teach in have hardly changed over the past hundred years. The classroom is still 9 metres x 7 metres in size and the primary location for lessons that are held in an hourly cycle — even though teachers and architects agree that contemporary teaching methods are far more varied and require appropriately flexible types of classroom.
City above the City – Karel Prager’s Vision
House over house, city over city, new construction type
Ten years after the death of one of the most significant and controversial Czechoslovakian architects the CCEA in cooperation with the National Museum present the public with his project of the seat of the Federal Assembly as well as his interest in macrostructures.
(re)designing nature
Innovative design inspired by nature in an urban context. The trustees of this exhibition made their selection of works by contemporary artists, architects and landscape architects. The designers of works presented here focussed on the alternative reutilization of slumming urban and industrial zones. The utopistic visions of this review rely upon the symbiosis of nature and culture…
Drawing School in the Albertina
William Kentridge: Five Themes, a comprehensive survey of the contemporary South African artist’s work, opened at the Albertina October 29th, 2010. Featuring more than 60 works in a range of media – including animated films, drawings, prints, theater models, sculptures – the exhibition is co-organized by SFMOMA and the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Taiwan Calling
Taiwan Calling is the first large-scale exhibition in the region to present contemporary Taiwanese art. In recent years, the increasing number of programmes created by various European cultural institutions has shown a genuine and professional interest in contemporary Asian art. The exhibition in Budapest, due to a unique cooperation…