{"id":11167,"date":"2014-06-12T11:02:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T09:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meonline.hu\/?p=11167"},"modified":"2015-04-09T13:51:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T11:51:37","slug":"a-posztkommunista-magyar-kocka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meonline.hu\/en\/archivum\/a-posztkommunista-magyar-kocka\/","title":{"rendered":"The Post-Communist \u201eHungarian Cube\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Official Standard Designs to Subversive Practices<\/strong><\/p>\n

Text: S\u00e1ndor Hornyik <\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Kockah\u00e1z,

House, Topon\u00e1r, photo: Katharina Roters<\/p><\/div>\n

The mysterious \u201eHungarian cube\u201d is nothing else than the K\u00e1d\u00e1r cube, that is an almost square shape house with a tent-shape roof and appr. 100 m2 floor area of which about 1 million still exist in the countryside according to estimations. This design became widespread sometime in the 1960s in Hungary, and remained a prevailing one of family housing till the late 1980s when it was replaced by the \u201ealpine\u201d version. The \u201eHungarian cube\u201d, however, is not simply a material submitted for a design contest, with an attractive subtitle as follows: \u201ethe architectural folk art of goulash communism\u201d, but an almost ten-year-old research project as well, which has been published now as a book with a different subtitle which sounds even more exciting from the aspect of culture history: \u201esubversive ornaments in socialism\u201d. As the volume emphasizes ornamentation, whilst pushing the architectural mass into the background, in this study I ambitioned to deal with the ideological relevances of the Hungarian cube and subversive ornamentation rather than the evolution of the \u201eHungarian cube\u201d or the issues related to the typology of family housing.<\/p>\n

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