The Four Pillars Text and photos: Melinda Benkő Sustainability to be reinterpreted in the 21st century requires focussing on the physical and social facilities of the locality, the emphasis on practice based on quality instead of multidisciplinary theoretical knowledge and quantitative development. Socially constructed space, getting to know the already urbanized landscape and its future-conscious recycling […]
2017
The Owner of the First Degree in Architecture from the Budapest University of Technology István Kiss born 160 ago
István Kiss (1857–1902) was the first to receive a degree in architecture after graduating in 1880 from the University of Technology in the history of this institution. With his oeuvre he enriched architecture not only in Hungary but also internationally with buildings that have evolved into landmark sights of Hungarian cityscapes. With his works and […]
Samples and Images
On Hungarian church architecture with Ferenc Török, aged 80 Interview: Zorán Vukoszávlyev, Gréta Garai Photos: Zorán Vukoszávlyev The opening of the oeuvre exhibition of Ferenc Török held in Vigadó in 2016 was a genuinely emotional experience of his childhood memories, drawings, models, friends, students, fellow architects, and formative characters of churches. Ferenc Török, a designer […]
A Socialist Spectacle?
Definition of the Memory. Symbols of Socialist Realism, OSA, Centralis Gallery, Budapest, 02. 02. – 19. 03. 2017 Text: Sándor Hornyik Photos: Dániel Végel / Blinken OSA Archívum The exhibition titled Symbols of Socialist Art című in the Budapest gallery of Open Society Archive interprets the visual paradigms of the era in a critical way […]
20 Years of Budapest Club
Conference at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 3 December 2016 Text: Iván Vitányi In the middle of the last century there seemed to be a new unique opportunity opening up for mankind. We felt there is a good chance for us to achieve welfare societies, well-being and democracy at the same time. Society was layered […]
Community and Architecture
Complex Designing Approaches Text: Katalin Fazekas By the definition of Public Interest Design Institute, which was founded by the American Bryan Bell, social architecture is a humanistic is a participative practice of design which stresses the importance of ecological, economic and social issues, and also creates products, structures and systems that touch upon such problems […]
Community Workshops
Fablabs and Fab10 Festival, Barcelona Text: Bálint Botzheim The history of the movement named fablab started in MIT Center for Bits and Atom laboratory which was founded in 2001. Its founder and manager is Professor Neil GershenFeld, and the slogan of the movement is as follows: „Give ordinary people the appropriate tools and they shall […]
The Inexpressihle, the Intangible (Space) and Sacred Architecture
Text: István Schneller Every theory engaged in sacred architecture, as well as practical considerations have the same basic question: the possibilities of the representation of the sacred in arts. Architecture has a unique position in this respect as the question is even more significant when a church is to be built. Is this representation viable […]
In Three Stages
A bit of survey, Budapest, 2016 Text: Gábor Nagy It is the sixth year in a row that the volume titled Egy kis mustra is published by the Government Office of Pest County to present reconstruction projects of protected historic buildings of the previous year. At the book show architect Gábor Nagy, a supervisor of […]