Text: Benjamin Makovecz

In his poetically beautiful writing, Benjamin Makovecz attempts to describe the slowly unfolding and ever increasingly intimate relationship between father and son from the early 1960s until 2011, the year of Imre Makovecz’s death. The writer’s perspective is that of a „young boy from Pest”, and the tone of his writing is personal yet detached. Recalling shared experiences, interesting, sometimes amusing, sometimes infinitely sad stories emerge hereby: boxing, double-killed vacation bugs, summer on the Adriatic coast, or grasshoppers on the stove. One Hundred and Eleven Footnotes on Imre Makovecz is a colorful, lively, and memorable portrait of one of the greatest Hungarian architects of the 20th century. Hereby we are publishing excerpts from the volume, which was published in 2019.