Forum for leading architects and entrepreneurs Text: Mária Tatai This year’s international SHARE Forum took place at the Ethnographic Museum in Városliget (City Park) on 14th May. The tightly intensive programme, including 18 presentations in three blocks. The spectacle offered and the message itself was very specific, but also very concentrated, with speakers from many […]
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Celestial Courtyard
A critical analysis of the Museum of Astronomy Shanghai Text: Kristóf Mánya This paper deals with the analysis of the Shanghai Astrology Museum viewing it as a cultural product. The museum is a reflection on the relationship between humans and their universe. In his description of the museum, chief designer Thomas Wong speaks about the […]
Ornament
beyond the Canon Text: Zsolt Gunther If we talk about ornamentation beyond the canon, we must also address the canonization of decoration. The foundations of this were laid by the architectural theorists of antiquity and the Renaissance. Vitruvius’ ten books, Alberti’s ten books, and Palladio’s four books all contribute to this foundation. Gottfried Semper, and […]
Artificial Intelligence for Architects
Competing engineering and artistic approaches Text: Bálint Botzheim The latest advances in artificial intelligence, generative-based image and text chatbots, have suddenly exploded into our everyday lives. On a daily basis we can read news reports that put the new features of chatbots sometimes in a positive or a negative context. New tools have also emerged […]
Variations and Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Architectural Design Process
AI for architects Text: Kincső Mária Tankó Artificial intelligence is making huge advances every day and is becoming more and more prominent in many fields, such as architecture. This raises a common question among architects: At the moment, what can artificial intelligence do? What versions of it can we apply to architectural design? Can it […]