Text: Krisztina Somogyi Numerous studies in environmental psychology have shown that the place where we live shapes us, influences us, and of course we shape it. We become attached to places that we like, we take care of them, we return to them for the sheer pleasure, while other, unpleasant places may even attract deviant […]
Utóirat 2023/5
Space and Learning
CAN Architects’ Work on Space and Education Text: András Cseh DLA, József Élő, Szilárd Köninger, Dávid Németh, Ádám Tátrai CAN Architects was founded by a team of architects who are both active design architects and educators. In the cooperation of different age groups, they have learned that various existing knowledge, creativity and initiative can complement […]
A 21st-century Architectural Language Lesson
Design process as a Continuous Translation Task or the enlargement of Grassalkovich Elementary School in Vecsés Text: Melinda Bognár Varied media, different formats, various tools, all in the service of communicating an idea. The symbiosis of verbal, visual and formal languages contributes to the realisation of the architectural work through a variety of media, while […]
Building a Community
Reflections on the Value of Socially Motivated Community Building Projects Text: Péter Fejérdy The wave of socially-sensitive projects often realized by community-building projects that emerged around the turn of the millennium also opened up exciting new ways in Hungarian architectural education in the 2010s. Students and teachers are eager to choose marginalised communities as the […]
House or Tails?
Utopia in Contemporary Architecture Text: Zsófia Szántay Photos: Budapest Galéria What is utopia and what makes it good? What do literary utopias teach us? How does utopia affect architecture and can it be found in the contemporary design community here in Hungary? The exhibition titled “House or Writing?” in the exhibition hall of the Budapest […]
Wendingen Cover Stories
A Unique Dutch Magazine and its Hungarian Implications Text: István Németh The Wendingen journal, which was launched at the same time as De Stijl in January 1918 and, like De Stijl, continued to be published until the early 1930s, owed its contemporary popularity and international fame perhaps above all to its unique image, its unparallelled […]