Utóirat 2013/8

As the role and responsibility of architects are not only significant factors of the evolution of man-made environment, but also affect the efficiency of economy, whilst inseparable from history and all kinds of mechanisms controlling its power relations and inner operation, this kind of interpenetration makes the moral issues ensuing from professional…

20th-century Modernism defined itself by using adjectives such as rational and functional, and emphasizing the roles and importance of technology and efficiency it distanced itself from its architectural historical background which it rated as overdecorated and burdened with a tradition that in time lost its meaning, clarity and impact. This way the Modernist…

Historians specialised in the architecture of the last but one turn-of-the-century realised at an early stage how important role artists of Jewish origins played in the Lechnerian school and in the whole evolution and flourishing of Hungarian Art Nouveau architecture. When trying to interpret the prominence of Jewish architects in the formation…

Till the end of the second millennium science had rigidly separated the spheres of religion and magic, which Nagy-Árpád Miklós referred to as the Great Dichotomy, not exempt from irony. Magic was regarded as a dark power originating from outside even by science. However, the past twenty years – especially thanks to the works and activities…