Pécs European Capital of Culture
Architectural Competitions and Public Space Renovations
Editor: Krisztina Somogyi
2010
Prakfalvi-Szűcs: The Socialist Realism in Hungary
Endre Prakfalvi – György Szűcs:
The Socialist Realism in Hungary
Corvina, 2010
168 page
Sleeping Beauty
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…
Burri’s Architectural Photography
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.
Kós Károly Award 2010
Individual category:
Attila Harsányi, Tamás Pintér, József Papp
Public category:
Town Protection Association for Rácalmás, Circle of Friends for Szádvár and the editorial office of Hungarian Architecture
Cities on the River
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.
Silver Carpenter Pencil Award 2010
First time the newly founded
Silver Carpenter Pencil Award of the Honi Art Foundation
was dedicated to
Tamás Torma
and postumus Mihály Vargha.
Small Scale, Big Change
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
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…
Material Time
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.
Platz da!
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…
Renaat Braem 1910 2010
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.