Smart City

City Planning under the Spell of Data Text: Levente Szczuka The society of the 21st century is approaching a digital society based on data, as a descendant of the information society. Whilst the Y generation uses data based gadgets relatively well, members of the Z generation („digital natives”) know, use and apply the most modern […]

Space Architecture

Research into Border Zones Text: Bálint Botzheim Architecture has always had a general tendency to search for its limits throughout its history. This inclination has often been phrased in Utopian letters. However, the evolution of architecture may also be described as the alternation of avantgarde and mainstream eras. The concept of limits needs to be […]

Aquincum Sequences

Text: Gyula Zeke Photos: Gergely Oláh Built along the Danube bank, a city and military camp of the province Pannonia which was part of the Roman Empire has left behind numerous relics in today’s area of Budapest. The civilian settlement and the military base featured baths, theatres, aqueducts, which together with the water organ found […]

KÖZÉP – public buildings within your reach

Exhibition of Budapest University of Technology, Department of Public Building Design Kunsthalle, 24. 09. – 22. 10. 2016 The Department of Public Building Design of the Budapest University of Technology celebrates the 70th anniversary of its foundation. The celebration is accompanied by a variety of events: in the first six months of the year two […]

Henrieta Moravčíková: Friedrich Weinwurm Architect

Slovart, Bratislava, 375 page Text: Rudolf Klein Henrieta Moravčíková, professor of architectural history with the University of Technology in Slovakia published this bilingual (English- and Slovak) monography on the outstanding architecture of Modernism who lived and worked in Bratislava in the interwar period. Approximately half of the hardcover volume covers the resume of the architect […]

Preface to the exhibition of Ferenc Török

Pesti Vigadó, September 2nd – 25th, 2016 Text: Barnabás Winkler The main hall of Vigadó hosts the jubilee exhibition of architect Ferenc Török titled Architecture and Credo opened on September 1st, 2016. Ferenc Török started to work as a lecturer with the University of Technology in Budapest in 1960. However, he was also active as […]