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
Proposed in association with Belgium’s Presidency of the European Union, the European Forum for Architectural Policies (FEPA-EFAP), which will take place 18-20 November 2010 at BOZAR Brussels, will focus on architecture as a vector of social cohesion, in connection with the 2010 European Year against Poverty and Social Exclusion.
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…
A Magyar Építőművészek Szövetsége országos, nyilvános, titkos, urbanisztikai- és design elemeket egyszerre váró komplex ötletpályázatot hirdet Magyarország valamennyi felsőfokú építész-, tájépítész-, településmérnök-, formatervező- és terméktervező képző oktatási intézményének hallgatói, valamint DLA, Phd hallgatók részére.
Hungarian Architecture Categrory:
Primissima Díj: Balázs Mihály, architect
Prima Award: Nagy Tamás, architect
Prima Award: Varga Levente, architect
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…
For example, the following artists are represented in the exhibition: the artists of Pécs (Marcell Breuer, Ernő Forbát, Hugó Johan, Farkas Molnár, Henrik Stefán, Andor Weininger, Etel Fodor) and other Hungarians active in the Bauhaus era (Sándor Bortnyik, László Moholy-Nagy, Gyula Pap, Judit Kárász, Irén Blüh, Otti Berger),…
By philosophy and nature, Jan Kaplický was mainly an architect, but his typical creative touch can be seen in many other artistic disciplines. His buildings are definitely outstanding and controversial; he was often inspired by natural forms – cobwebs, butterfly’s wings, or fish scales. Kaplický received many awards, including the most prestigious British award for architecture…
In the summer of 2010, the Leopold Museum is joining with Institut Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt to mount the most comprehensive exhibition to date on the oeuvre of J. M. Olbrich. This large-scale retrospective is to present around 300 individual works by this architect and universal artist, thereby putting Olbrich’s oeuvre into the aesthetic context of…