MAGtár Events Hall, Alsóbogát Architect: Miklós M. Miltényi Text: Anna Szövényi Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky Alsóbogát is a tiny village halfway between Kaposvár and Lake Balaton, and yet it has a history of a millennium and also has two castles. One of them, referred to as the Festetics-Inkey castle has an estate of significant size, a […]
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A Public Building of a Village
Telki Sports Hall Architect: Barnabás Láris Text: Gergő Burián Photos: Bálint Jaksa The evolution of the sports hall in Telki is a unique story: as a prelude to the existing house, a vault-shaped hangar-like metal sports hall was built by the town. The shell-structure hall was not a design welcome by the locals, and were […]
Co-working House from an Industrial Monument
Base4Work, Bratislava Architecture, interiors: DF Creative Group, Studio Perspektiv Text: György Szegő Photos: BoysPlayNice There are only a few buildings with industrial history left in Bratislava that have managed to adapt to the current needs. One of them is functionalist building of Dusan Jurkovič’s Heating Plant, which has been opened to the public after a […]
Art House from the Mill
Reconstruction and extension of the former Festetics mill in Toponár Concept and text: Anna Fekecs One of the districts of Kaposvár, Toponár, was once a Festetics estate, and many buildings preserve the memory of the family. Currently, the mill building is unused and if not used, this valuable Festetics memento will be lost. The plan […]
Architecture Around the Year
The 120th Anniversary of the Association of Hungarian Architects Text: András Krizsán DLA In 1902, when Cifrapalota, one of the best known buildings of Hungarian Art Nouveau was completed in Kecskemét, twenty-four Hungarian architects decided it was necessary to found an association in order to defend the interests of Hungarian architectural art. Hopes associated with […]
Noble Ambitions, Fine Ideas
The first decade of MÉSZ Text: Ákos Moravánszky 1902, the foundation year of the Hungarian Asssociation of Architects (MÉSZ) was halfway through the peaceful, almost 5 decade long belle époque era between 1867 and 1914. Architects, the majority of whom significantly contributed to te evolution of Budapest into a global capital city, made a decision […]
Chapters from the History of MÉSZ between 1902 and 1948
Text: Eszter Baku, Éva Csernus The structure of MÉSZ had been based on the management, boards and disciplinary council as late as the post-war era, with close cooperation that was a firm foundation allowing for settling and managing both artistic/cultural issues and the representation of interests taking on new and new tasks. These three pillars […]
Individualist Hungarian Social Realism
An Invisible Story Text: Ádám Sylvester After the war the vast number of construction and building projects required large architects’ offices run by the state. Most of the young professionals had not yet been hostile to this, and construction became a most important factor, which policy focussed on intensely, and it has also turned into […]
„English” Hungarian Architects
Ernő Goldfinger’s Cooperation with MÉSZ Text: Ábel Mészáros The Goldfinger scholarship is an exceptional episode of the history of architecture in the Kádár era. After the war Ernő Goldfinger initiated in 1946 with Pierre Vago, Hungarian-born French architect to found UIA, the international association of architects, which right after its foundation elected him as its […]
Prestige and Identity
Reception of the Activities of Iparterv in the early Kádár Era Text: Péter Haba The overall professional and social reception of Hungarian architecture after 1956 was defined in a strange way by a special field which otherwise tends to fall outside the focus of attention of the wider public. The segment of designing industrial investments […]
Master School 1953–2023
Text: János Golda With its existence of seven decades, the Master School falls within the grey zone between the contemporary present and canonized past. It is not yet part of the official history, and we hardly remember it. Since 1970 it is its 16th cycle coming to an end in the summer of 2022, including […]
Posthumous Bow in Respect
Posthumous Ybl Prize Text: Barnabás Winkler In 2010, after an initiative by architect Barnabás Winkler, the Association of hUngarian Architects recognized the oeuvre of 17 Hungarian architects with a posthumous Magyar Ybl Prize which was originally founded as one of the state recognitions of arts in a decree of the Ministerial Board on November 6th […]