On August 29th-30th the international conference Man and Architecture was orgamized by Károly Kós Association and the International Forum in Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Piliscsaba with the participation of famous Hungarian and foreign lecturers, such as Karl-Dieter Bodack, Pieter van der Ree, Peter Hübner, Lucien Kroll, Gregory Burgess and Marko Pogacnik. The event was closely associated with the exhibition titled To Continue Creation representing the past 20 years of Károly Kós Association hosted by the Museum of Applied Arts. As he could not be present in person, Paolo Porthogesi an international authority of organic architecture sent a letter summing up his warnings and recommendations worth considering, which is now published here with the organizators’ agreement and licence. Here he accounts of the fact that three years ago a new and yet old academic subject he named geo-architecture was introduced at the faculty of architecture of La Sapienza University in Rome. „In the world we are living in now it is exclusively economic aspects that count, the priority being that goods must be transported to and fro all over the world in a market lacking any kind of regulation. Architecture being the expression of wasting, the monument to conceited architects. To talk of geo-architecture in this medium means we clearly define what we should not do in the future and how we can work out a method to create an architecture worthy of its history.”

Carey Young: Body Techiniques, (after A Line in Ireland, Richard Long, 1974), 2007

Carey Young: Body Techiniques, (after A Line in Ireland, Richard Long, 1974), 2007