Plečnik House, Ljubljana – Piranesi Award 2016 Architects: Maruša Zorec, Maša Živec, Matjaž Bolčin Text: Edit Pálinkás Photos: Tadej Bolta The Plečnik House, the home of architect Jože Plečnik located in the leafy Trnovo borough, reopened in September 2015 after two years of renovation. The renovation of the House Plečnik is a small but complex […]
Women Architects in the Socialist Era (1945–1989)
On a newly published collection of English-language essays Text: Béla Kerékgyártó How did they find their places and what was the role of women who were active as architects in the countries of the Socialist block? Was there any essential difference between West and East Europe in this regard? Edited by Mariann Simon and Mary […]
Kik éltek, kik építettek itt?
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Sajó István újrafelfedezése
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Peter Cook. Retrospective
Museum for Architectural Drawing, Berlin, 30 October 2016 – 12 February 2017 The exhibition Peter Cook. Retrospective is devoted to drawings by the famous British architect who is celebrating his 80th birthday this year. Peter Cook is without doubt one of the leading figures of the Archigram group and in 2007 was knighted for his […]
Piranesi Award 2016
Exhibition in FUGA, Budapest, 25 January – 13 February 2017 Text: Edit Pálinkás 56 projects were exposed at Piranesi exhibition 2016. 34 architectural projects were nominated by the national selectors from Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia and Slovenia, and 22 students’ projects were nominated by students’ selectors from Faculties of Architecture from […]
Rerrich Béla emlékkiállítás
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Iván Kotsis Medal 2016
Prize-giving ceremony Association of Hungarian Architects, 15 December 2016 Founded in 1989, the medal named after Iván Kotsis is actually a “fair play” prize awarded to Hungarian architects by the Association of Hungarian Architects year by year on December 15th, the birthday of its denominator based on nominations by a board of curators. At the […]
Breuer – at Home Again
Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, 8 December 2016 – 11 June 2017 Curators: Éva Horányi, Tamás Dévényi, Pál Ritoók Installation: Tamás Dévényi Thanks to the financial support of the Magyar Nemzeti Bank the conference table from the former furnishings of the New York office of the world-famous architect and furniture designer of Hungarian origin, Marcell […]
İstanbul 100
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Rowing course finish line tower competition – presentations and discussion
Association of Hungarian Architects, Budapest, 28 February 2017 It is an old-new tradition of the Association of Hungarian Architects to provide an opportunity to present all the projects applied for the main architectural competitions in Hungary. On the first event of this long-term series of the association the applicants presented their work for the Rowing […]
Utopias in Practice Conference
Association of Hungarian Architects, 16-17 January 2017 According to the exhibition ‘Utopias in Practice’ of Péter Mújdricza architect, a two-day conference was held in the headquarters of the Association of Hungarian Architects in Budapest. The lecturers approached the topic by several aspects, some of them were precticing architects, designers, technology experts, art historians, even the […]