Utóirat 2024/2

Budapest Architecture Film Days 2024 Text: Mária Tatai This year, the Contemporary Architecture Centre’s film festival was organised by a team of designers with new members. I translated the catchy English slogan — People behind — in the title of the article as Human Stories, partly because in the last film of the festival, Balkrishna […]

Architectural Additives of the Tycho Project Text: Alexander Gyeres Collecting materials for his Tycho Project, Alexander Gyenes has visited several European observatories from the Early Modern era. Some of the most remarkable solar observatories, in the form of functionalized meridian lines, were housed in cathedrals. The Tycho Project represents his attempt at creating a surface […]

Modernity and the Search for Tradition in Károly Weichinger’s Realized Buildings and Later Writings Text: Márk Váncza Károly Weichinger (1893-1982), Kossuth Prize-winning architect, is a recognised figure of 20th-century Hungarian architecture. His design work, dating from the interwar era, is characterised by a balancing act between Modernism and Historicism. His work is accompanied by a […]

2nd International Conference of the VEAB Working Committee on Vernacular Architecture Text: Dénes Nagy The VEAB Working Committee on Folk Architecture was founded in 2011. The Hungarian Academy of Science (MTA) established Regional Academic Committees in Debrecen, Miskolc, Pécs, Szeged and Veszprém, and then expanded them to include Cluj-Napoca. Shortly after its creation, in 2012, […]

The Limits of Architecture and Use of Space in Szekler Baths Text: Sarolta Rab The mountain spas of Transylvania, just like other prominent natural environments of Central-Eastern Europe, were built and became widely known in the civilizing 19th century. Although in a dilapidated state, their architectural heritage of the time, the promenades, pavilions, villas and […]