Synagogue portraits in one book

During the week of the Hungarian Holocaust Remembrance Day, on June 18 a Hungarian-English bilingual volume entitled was presented in the synagogue in Páva Streer, the Holocaust Memorial Center. 

Museum of Ethnography received an architectural Oscar

Hungary's new Museum of Ethnography, part of the Liget Budapest Project, has been acknowledged at the Fiabci World Prix d'Excellence Awards in Singapore. The spectacularly-shaped museum with a rooftop garden designed by Marcel Ferencz, a regular member of HAA, was named a World Gold Winner in the Public Infrastructure category. The House of Music Hungary, another element of the Liget Budapest Project, designed by Japan's Sou Fujimoto, was a Silver Winner in the same category.

Exhibition of Gábor Véssey

Gábor Véssey's series of paintings from the past five years can be seen at the exhibition at Kunsthalle, the institute of HAA. The display is commemorating the 75th birthday of the painter. The series displayed are as follows: Autumn Songs, Sounds of the Moon, Touch, Hearts and Years, Drinkers, and Witnesses of Light. With their strong radiating lyricism, these unique paintings express the artist's often humorous, ironic and dramatic world of painting through the combination of the figurative and the abstract, the drawn and the painted images, as well as the artistic effects and the brush technique. 05.10. - 07. 07. 2024.

The workshop of Károly Kós – A large-scale exhibition at Kunsthalle

The exhibition, which is open until 15 September 2024, is presenting the young architect's early masterpieces with the help of original plans, archive photographs, contemporary illustrations and documents. Through contemporary publications and his own writings, his vision and achievements in the multidisciplinary field of community organisation are revealed. The works in this exceptionally rich oeuvre show that Károly Kós' vision of landscape and settlement is a kind of relationship between nature and humankind.