Reflections during the planning of the Southern Buda Central Hospital Text: Tamás Noll Central hospitals represent a new generation of international hospital building, the so-called “core hospital” typology. The reorganisation project of healthcare in Hungary, the Semmelweis Plan launched in 2012, is in sync with developments all over the world, where care is being organised […]
Utóirat 2024/1
Contemporary Hungarian Architecture / Architecture and Identity
Text: Krisztina Somogyi, Balázs Mihály The BME Doctoral School of Architecture celebrated its 30th anniversary at the end of 2023. The following article is the editorial introduction to one of the publications published for the anniversary (Contemporary Hungarian Architecture / Architecture and Identity, BME, Budapest, 2022). The BME Doctoral School of Architecture, in cooperation with […]
The Difficulties of National Style Aspirations 2.
Protection of monuments in the service of identity politics in late 19th-century Hungary Text: Viktor Rozmann, Deodáth Zuh The first part of this paper, published in MÉ 2023/6, seeks to answer the question of how the principles of monument preservation fitted into the efforts to strengthen national identity in the last third of the 19th […]
On a Project Basis
Two-semester cooperation between the Department of Residential Building Design, Faculty of Architecture, BME and the Municipality of Tatabánya Text: Tamás Varga The competition in the educational market, the struggle for students day by day, semester by semester, academic year by academic year, sets the instructor a serious task to attract more and more talented students […]
The Space Architect
Attila Kőszeghy: From Plato to Le Corbusier Text: Zoltán Rácz Attila Kőszeghy is a musician, poet, painter, physicist, philosopher from Debrecen, whose visible imprint is his architecture. In his book published now, he tries to summarise the theoretical research that guided him in designing his striking and exciting houses. Attila Kőszeghy is an extraordinarily thorough […]