Amrita Sher-Gil was born in Budapest, Hungary. She was an eminent Indian painter born to a Punjabi Sikh father and a Hungarian mother, sometimes known as India’s Frida Kahlo, and today considered an important woman painter of 20th century India, whose legacy stands at par with that of the Masters of Bengal Renaissance; she is also the…
Disappearing Masterpieces of the Russian Wooden Architecture
Museum of Ethnography, Budapest, 9 July – 8 September 2013
Opening: 8 July 2013. 5 p.m.
Greetings by Lajos Kemecsi Ph.D., Director of the Museum of Ethnography and Platonov Valery, Director of the Russian Cultural Centre
The winner of the first BMW Creative Lab is Attila Veress, a Hungarian student from European Institute of Design in Milan. “His project 2.0 is a perfect interpretation of the concept food in movement”, says Domenico Guzzini, president of the company. “His design interprets a very special Italian tradition: The lunchbox, affectionately called ‘Schiscetta’…
MODEM, Debrecen
7 June – 6 October 2013
Opening: 6 June 2013, 5 p.m.
Opening speech by Krisztián Kukla, Director of MODEM
Monika Perenyei art historian, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Matching – 18th Chief Architects Conference
Nagykőrös, Arany János Cultural Centre
28-30 August 2013
Greetings by Szabolcs Czira, Mayor of Nagykőrös
Frigyes Philipp, President of the Association of Chief Arcitects
Association of Hungarian Architects
Budapest, 4-19 July 2013
Opening: 4 July 2013 11 a.m.
Opening speech by Péter Szaló Ph.D. Deputy Secretary of Ministry of Interior and Péter Kirschner curator
The “Vándoriskola” of the Kós Károly Association announced admission for young architects.
“Vándoriskola” 2013 admission design:
HOUSE – MUSIC – INSTRUMENT – WALL
Design a musical instrument, which is also a house.
The 4th International Holcim Awards competition celebrates projects and visions that contribute to a more sustainable built environment and features total prize money of USD 2 million. The competition is open for projects in architecture, building and civil engineering, landscape and urban design, materials, products and…
The Department of Architecture of Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) has approx. 200 graduates present their diplom theses annually. It is the largest department of architecture in Hungary, but until now professionals can hardly know about the quality of graduates’ work. The open presentation of diplom theses…
Theme of the 2013 competition is »Focus of Attention«. Whether or not to focus on a particular detail in a picture, and if so which one, is among the elementary principles of photographic composition. This year‘s theme »Focus of Attention« thus has a universal significance for photographers. We recommend taking common parlance as a guide…
The MFA’s summer exhibition is a two-part showing of contemporary work by young Nordic architects. It is an expanded version of the joint Nordic Light Houses exhibition curated for the Venice Biennale in summer 2012. Celebrating the jubilee of the iconic Nordic Pavilion designed fifty years ago by Sverre Fehn…
János Gerle: Art Nouveau in Hungarian Architecture
6Bt. Kiadó, 2013
Book presentation
FUGA, Budapest, 27 June 2013
Presentation by András Ferkai