Othernity, or Modernism Revisited: 12 Budapest Buildings and Their New Lives

How to reconcile the past and the present? What new functions can post-World War II 20th-century architecture serve? Daniel Kovács, the curator of the Hungarian Pavilion at the 17th Venice Biennale, posed these questions to 12 architecture practices he invited to partake in the project Othernity. The effects can be seen in the Hungarian Pavilion…

Like never before, architecture has to follow the changes occurring in the world: on nominations for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2022

Like never before, architecture has to follow the changes occurring in the world: on nominations for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2022   Marcin Szczelina   Houses, office buildings, streets, schools—all buildings whose rigid form is dictated by pre-existing architectural norms and their socially accepted functions have been degraded once and for all.  …