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 […]

Theatre as a public space

OISTAT Theatre Architecture Competition 2017 OISTAT Theatre Architecture Competition 2017 is an international ideas competition, aimed at students and emerging architecture practitioners, and is organised by the Architecture Commission of OISTAT (International Organisation of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians). The result of the 10th Theatre Architecture Competition 2017 has been announced in Hsinchu City in […]

Architecture copy paste

Felix Madrazo and Winy Maas: Copy Paste. The Badass Architectural Copy Guide Text: Péter Debreczeni The unique nature of design is a priority, and there is a wide variety of tools and devices that can be used to achieve this goal. As it is quite a difficult task to find out something entirely individual, and […]

A Master of Historicism

Dr. Pilkhoffer Mónika: The Oeuvre of Architecture Adolf Lang. TERC, Budapest, 2017, 216 page Szöveg: Jeney András Mónika Pilkhoffer, an associate history professor with the University of Pécs, has also established her fame as an art historian. In her latest publication she analyses the oeuvre Adolf Lang (1848–1913) with special regard to historicism (revivalist styles). […]

SOS Brutalism

Save the Concrete Monsters! DAM, Frankfurt, 9 November 2017 – 2 April 2018 The DAM is presenting the first-ever global survey of the Brutalist architecture of the 1950s to 1970s. The term Brutalism does not originate from the word “brutal”, but rather béton brut—the French term for exposed concrete. Brutalist architecture celebrates rawness and the […]

Otto Bartning

Museum Künstlerakademie Matildenhöhe, Darmstadt 19 November 2017 – 18 March 2018 Photos: Matildenhöhe, Darmstadt Otto Bartning had a strong impact on architecture of the 20th century. From 1918 on, as a member of the Workers’ Council for Art, he developed pedagogical concepts that were later used by Walter Gropius when he founded the Bauhaus in […]

The Legacy of Two Women of the 20th Century in Vienna

Brigitte Hamann’s legacy Vienna City Library, 2 June 2017 – 26 January 2018 Text: György Szegő Photos: Rathausbiblitothek Wien On October 4, 2016, historian and biographer Brigitte Hamann died of one of the most popular scientists in Austria, indeed German-speaking countries. She wrote her credo in a text for the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1995: […]