Move the Roof Higher Up

10th Budapest Architecture Films Days Toldi Cinema, Budapest, 8-11 March 2018 Text: Eszter Götz Photos: KÉK The Contemporary Architecture Centre hosts the Architecture Film Days for the tenth time this April with an ever widening audience year by year. The programme offers lessons proving useful lessons and food for thought from several aspects. The number […]

Enigma 92 – Correspondence of Károly Kós and Aurél Papp

Journal Presentation and Discussion Association of Hungarian Architects, 20 March 2018 Text: György Szegő Launched 25 years ago, Enigma is a journal specialized in art theory. Its issue No. 92 presents the correspondence between Károly Kós (1883–1977) architect, writer, graphic artist, cultural organiser with Aurél Papp (Aurel Popp 1879–1960) painter and sculptor, culture politician, thanks […]

Mater of the City Demons

In memoriam sculptor István Gellér B. (1946–2018) Text: György Szegő István Gellér B. was an artist building inward. He elevated the process of understanding his family trauma, the historic topic and contemporary fine arts into high-brow art despite a hostile indifference. He organically blended the findings of his imaginary archeological excavations and fictional research – […]

Metropolises Budapest I Vienna

Parallel Urban Spaces from the 20th Century Architektur im Ringturm, Vienna, 7 March – 8 June 2018 Photos: Ringturm The first exhibition in 2018 in Wiener Städtische Versicherungsverein’s popular Architektur im Ringturm series focuses on the architectural heritage of Budapest and Vienna in the 20th century. The exhibition spotlights architectural trends in both capitals between […]

Sanghay – Shanghai

Parallel Diversities between East and West Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts, Budapest, 22 September 2017 – 8 April 2018 Opening 21 September 2017, the new exhibition at the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts, titled Sanghay – Shanghai. Parallel Diversities between East and West, links the emblematic oriental metropolis of Shanghai with the Sanghay […]

Visions of World Architecture

Illustrations from the Royal Academy Lectures of Sir John Soane Tschoban Foundation, Museum for Architectural Drawing, Berlin, 3 March – 17 June 2018 This new temporary loan exhibition is the third collaborative project between the Museum for Architectural Drawing, Berlin and Sir John Soane’s Museum, London. The exhibition showcases a series of remarkable drawings produced […]

Az Olasz Design Napja 2018

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Urban Symmetry

Zsolt Hlinka, Premier Nyomda, 2018, Budapest, 165 page Why symmetry? Because it is perfect: a consciously created or randomly occurring composition that captures the immaculate balance. My artistic aspirations have been built around this concept since the beginnings, approaching it from many different sides, which makes this an inexhaustible source for inspiration for me. My […]

New Cabin Homes

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Architectural Photography Award 2017 exhibition in Bratislava

Galéria Architektúry SAS, Bratislava, 11-27 April 2018 The travelling exhibition of Architectural Photography Award 2017 launched by the Association of Hungarian Architects and the Hungarian Architecture magazine arrived to Bratislava. Juraj Herman, the director of the architectural gallery of the Association of Slovak Architects greeted the audience. The exhibition can be visited on Weekdays from […]

The Historic Core of Székesfehérvár

Results of an open architectural tender The Architectural Department of the Hungarian Art Academy (Magyar Művészeti Akadémia, MMA) published an open contest of architecture for the construction of a well-deserved and worthwile exhibition site to present the unique architectural historical and archaeological relics and findings of the site with characteristic means of architecture in the […]

f_f_f: Young Architects Generation 2017

Competition and exhibition in MÉSZ Text: András Borsos Titled f_f_f 2017, it is the 6th edition of the program „Young Architects Generation” initiated by Gábor Reischl, former chairman of Association of Hungarian Architects which was launched in 2006 and has been organized by MÉSZ since then biannually. It is targeted to present the best achievements […]