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Téma

2024/6 Téma rovat

Even Larger Than The Church

Restoration Project, Fasor Lutheran Church, Budapest Architects: Piroska Varga, Zoltán Berzsák Text: Zoltán Dragon Photos: József Hajdú The church of the Reformed Parish of Budapest-Fasor was designed by Aladár Árkay in 1913. The condition of the structure has deteriorated considerably in recent decades, and its design deficiencies have become increasingly apparent meanwhile. Both these issues […]

2024/6 Téma rovat

Island of the Soul

Sisters of the Cross Centre, Budapest Architects: Katalin Csillag, Zsolt Gunther Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky In Buda’s Városmajor Street, this extraordinary building has stood on this site since 1847, its neo-Gothic style shining out from the streetscape of today. It was used as a residential building until 1994, when it became the property […]

2024/6 Téma rovat

Bold Dynamics

Extension of the St Anthony’s Franciscan High School and College, Esztergom Architect: Robert Gutowski Text: Tamás Kiss Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky The new educational wing of the Franciscan High School and College of St. Anthony of Esztergom was completed in autumn, 2024. The building, which was designed by Gutowski Architects, follows the previous concept and forms […]

2024/6 Téma rovat

Old and New Colours of Devotion

Interior renovation of the Reformed Church, Alsózsolca Architect, interior designer: Emese Bunyik Text: Rita Tuczai Photos: Gergely Gosztom Four years ago, the Reformed Congregation of Alsózsolca invited Emese Bunyik, an interior architect, to design the renovation of their church. The financial possibilities offered a framework for the client and the designer to try to make […]

Utóirat

2024/6 Post Scriptum Utóirat 2024/6

Balance, Monument, Practice

External Renovation of the Reformed Church of Fasor, Budapest Text: Piroska Varga Photos: Grafit Műterem  The restoration of a church seems to be a simple and straightforward task of monument restoration. In such a case, we can usually not talk about a change of functions, missing parts, and the building can be thoroughly explored in […]

2024/6 Post Scriptum Utóirat 2024/6

Pars Pro Toto

Historical Aspects of Church Architecture in the Inter-War Era Text: Zoltán Dragon This study draws conclusions concerning the problems of the whole range of Catholic liturgical spaces built between the two world wars on the basis of some sacral buildings located in Hungary. The churches built between the two world wars are the harbingers of […]

2024/6 Post Scriptum Utóirat 2024/6

The House of Assembly

The Spatial Implications of the Contemporary Sacral and Secular Uses of the Synagogue in Rumbach Sebestyén Street Text: Zoltán Major The post-war history of synagogues in historical Hungary is fairly diverse. In the Holocaust, the vast majority of the communities that belonged to the buildings were killed, and the majority of the society did not […]

2024/5 Post Scriptum Utóirat 2024/5

Introduction · 2. Ybl Conference at the Ybl Miklós Ybl Faculty of Civil Engineering, Óbuda University, 17th May 2024.

On May 12, 2023, the Miklós Ybl Faculty of Civil Engineering of the University of Óbuda organised its first comprehensive professional conference for architects, titled 1st Ybl Conference on the Built Environment, with the motto “The Potential of Challenge, Value in Change”. Idea of the conference was conceived and the event was organized by Dr. […]

Terv

2023/6 Terv rovat

Revitalisation of the Pauline Monastery and its Surroundings in Kőkút

MÉSZ-MÉK Diploma Award 2023 Concept and text: Dóra Tihanyi, BME Consultant: Péter Kronavetter DLA The Pauline monastery of Kőkút („Stone Well”) in Salföld is one of the oldest monuments of the order, with a history dating back to the 1260s. The scheme proposes to enhance the significance of the site and to develop its uses. […]

2023/5 Terv rovat

Theatre Pedagogy Workshop, Győr

MÉK-MÉSZ Diploma Award 2023 Text and concept: Mátyás Weisz Consultant: Balázs Falvai DLA Theatre education, drama pedagogy as a form of education and training combines traditional education with the theatre, and thus makes learning more colourful for children. Drama education training takes place mostly on-site in schools. The plan will provide a home for theatre […]

2023/4 Terv rovat

Concepts for Survive

Strategies for the new challenges of a new century Text: Bálint Botzheim In our current thematic issue, we present different strategies for how the architect can be mindful of the effects on the environment. The first of the presented strategies is recycling. Why build a new one, if the existing building can be adapted to […]

2023/4 Terv rovat

21st Century Hermitage – Dobogókő

Diploma Thesis Concept and text: Marcell Szuhanyik As we enter the 21st century, retreats are not just religiously motivated and led. Through a variety of systems of thought, as part of physical and spiritual exercises, and also as a contrast to our everyday life, time spent alone or in a group with the same purpose […]

Kreatív városok

2019/6 Kreatív városok

Radical transformation

Developing the centre of a settlement, Gyermely Architects: Péter Gereben, Balázs Marián Text: Szilvia Molnár Photos: Balázs Danyi Having in-depth knowledge of the structure of the village Gyermely, the team named Gereben Marián Architects managed by Balázs Marián DLA and Péter Gereben found themselves a challenge here at the end of the 2000s. As a […]

2019/6 Kreatív városok

Oxford in the foothills of the Alps

Facelifted Benedictine Convent House, Kőszeg Architect: Robert Gutowski Text: Dr. Ferenc Miszlivetz Photos: Tibor Ohr An eventful year started in 2014 when ISES Foundation was commissioned by the Prime Minister’s office to work out a study on viability with the aim to save the architectural heritage of Kőszeg almost on the brink of complete deterioration […]

2019/5 Kreatív városok

The Place Where…

Intimacy, creativity, flow Text: Tamás Fejérdy, Ferenc Miszlivetz, Laura Takács Architectural spaces do not tend to be utility calculations in the case of historic towns, as they are born based on human needs, well-established and fixed habits, the respect of old times, the gripping effect of the view, that is natural, cultural and aesthetic codes. […]

2019/5 Kreatív városok

Treating Landscape Injuries with Art

Volcanoes Park, Zalahaláp Sculptors: Rhea Marmentini, Zoltán Balanyi Text: Balázs Szász Photos: Rhea Marmentini, Zoltán Balanyi Born in a family of doctors and artists, Chilean-Hungarian sculptor Rhea Marmentini started to realize one of her long-time dream at the meeting point of Mediterranean and continental climates: to reconstruct a wound on the landscape of Haláp Hill, […]