The members of the group of artists, founded in 1848, in London called the Pre-Raphaelites were most consistent in pursuing or renewing the arts compared with official Victorian art. At the tail end of the 19th century their art ended up in international symbolism and Art Nouveau amid the increasing symbolism…
The exhibition “René Burri – Photographs” at KUNST HAUS WIEN is a retrospective of the works of one of the most important photographers of our time. René Burri was born in Zurich in 1933. From 1959, as a member of the MAGNUM agency, he travelled to the scenes of innumerable world events.
A Cities On The River (Folyóparti városok) című vándorkiállítás megnyitójával megkezdődött a magyar európai uniós elnökséghez kapcsolódó rendezvénysorozat, a Kultúrfolyam Bécsben. A Collegium Hungaricum tárlata kortárs festők, fotóművészek alkotásait vonultatja fel. Az alkotásokat négy Duna menti városban mutatják be.
This exhibition presents eleven architectural projects on five continents that respond to localized needs in underserved communities. These innovative designs signal a renewed sense of commitment, shared by many of today’s practitioners, to the social responsibilities of architecture. Though this stance echoes socially engaged movements of the past, the architects…
Anna Viebrock (*1951) díszletterveiben a valóság elemei oly módon keverednek össze, hogy a léptékében és részleteiben eltorzított terek szürreálissá válnak. A díszletek különböző téregységek kollázsaiként értelmezhetők, melyek naturalizmusa az elemek konzisztenciájának hiányában megtévesztő. Viebrock inspirációs forrását…
How can history be captured in space and structure and carried on, respectively? The architects Wandel Hoefer Lorch & Hirsch have been dealing intensively with this question like no one else before in the field of architecture. Already during their years of study they won the competition for the redevelopment of the Börneplatz in Frankfurt as a memorial place.
To mark the 10th jubilee of the European Urban Public Space Awards the Architekturzentrum Wien is engaging with that often addressed and sometimes overplayed subject of Public Space. Numerous questions are posed, from: What is public space? How does it arise and does it even still exist? Who does it belong to, what does it represent and who decides…
In 2010 the much-discussed architect Renaat Braem would have been 100 years old. The Flemish Architecture Institute (VAi) and the Centre for Flemish Architectural Archives (CVAa) are taking the occasion of this centenary as an opportunity to hold an exhibition and a series of other events connected with the man and his work.
At present, Brussels is facing some major social challenges. In the coming years the population will continue to grow, and an increased focus on issues such as jobs, mobility, and public amenities like schools and sporting infrastructure is required. The Building for Brussels exhibition argues that a powerful architectural and urban planning policy…
A Magyar Építőművészek Szövetsége tisztelettel meghívja Önt
ELEŐD ÁKOS építész kiállításának megnyitójára
Magyar Építészek Háza – Kós Károly terem
1088 Budapest, Ötpacsirta u. 2.
2010. december 8. szerda 18.00 óra
Contemporary Hungarian Architecture Exhibition, Brussels
In the 19th century, paralel with the modern movement, ornamentalism has reached the focus of the interest of theory. Karl Bötticher and Gottfried Semper has build their theory primarily on tectonic and decoration. The dispute reached the Hungarian Art Novou when Ödön Lechner…
The slogan suggested by the chief trustee – „ People meet in architecture” – is a trivial one. It may well be interpreted as narrowly as the meeting of architects from all over the world. However, we can also see it as follows: our earthly existence is defined and framed by an overconstructed artificial environment nowadays which as a result increases the responsibility…