Károly Kós Exhibition in Paris
Text: Anthony Gall
Opened virtually in November, 2020, it is a „genuine” exhibition in the Paris-based culture centre of Hungary titled L’architecte le plus hongrois dans l’Europe au XX. siècle, or Károly Kós, the …
Utóirat
The architect of the Hungarian Jewish emancipation
Ágnes Ivett Oszkó: Lipót Baumhorn. Holnap Kiadó, 2020
Text: Rudolf Klein
This work by Ágnes Oszkó was published by Holnap Kiadó in the series titled the Masters of Architecture, one of the most detailed and comprehensive series of specialist …
A Modular Residential Tower
The Construction System by Schömer
The majority of the Earth’s population today lives among inadequate housing conditions. There is a huge demand for flats, but it is also an important priority apply construction methods that minimize the environmental load …
In Memory of Our Glorious Dead
Vanishing Houses in Budapest
Text: Tamás Ulrich
In the past few years a large number of precious houses have disappeared from Budapest that embodied unique values with their past and architectural significance. Hereby we are presenting a list of …
Space with a Neutral or Multiple Character?
The Birth of a New Sacred Typology
Text: Zoltán Major
The developments and processes of globalisation and multiculturality appear in contemporary societies both informally and formally, they are translated into our urban spaces. When immigrating groups of people recycle, …
Non-Referential Architecture
Valerio Olgiati’s Architecture as Reflected in His Own Design Theory
Text: Bendegúz Zacher
The comprehensive thoroughness featuring the book titled Non-Referential Architecture by Valerio Olgiati is a rarity in the genre of contemporary design theoretical discourses. The standards of …
Sabina Tanovic: Memory in Architecture
Contemporary memorial projects and their predecessors
Text: Flóra Perényi
Born in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sabina Tanovic is an architect graduating from the Sarajevo University, who started research into the theoretical background of the correlations of memory and architecture apropos of a …
The City as an Interface
Thoughts Apropos of Martijn de Waal’s The City as Interface
Text: Imre Bokányi
In a study published in 2014 in Rotterdam, de Waal projected the software parallels well-known from the specialist literature dealing with the smart cities to the …
A World Interwoven with Networks
Barabásilab: Hidden patterns. The language of network thinking
Text: Bálint Botzheim
An exhibition presenting the research of BarabásiLab for the last 25 years can be seen in the Ludwig Museum. This is the first exhibition in Hungary for BarabásiLab, …
Surviving Utopies
Text: Balázs Rose
The Valparaíso School, as it became known, acquired an international reputation for its radical stance and its commitment to dialogue between architects and other disciplines. Since 1970 the Valparaíso School has focused much of its research …
From the Modernism of Miskolc to New York
Viktor Bőhm’s Architecture
Text: Éva Lovra
An ongoing research project is focussing on finding out the details and career of Viktor Bőhm, Modernist architect and theoretician (Victor Bohm, Miskolc, 1900 – Rockaway, New Jersey(?), 1981). This study is the …
In Praise of the Appropriate Dimensions of a City
The Dialogue Between the Prince, the Architect and the Philosopher
Text: Ferenc Hörcher
The discourse tells us the legend of ever growing cities. But are small and medum-size towns sentenced actually to death by development which is supposed to …