Architecture as Philosophy: The Work of Imre Makovecz.Section drawing by Imre Makovecz Imre Makovecz, born November 20 1935 in Budapest, Hungary, is a Hungarian architect active in Europe from the late 1950s onward. He attended the Technical University of Budapest. Makovecz is one of the most prominent proponents of organic architecture. of a proposed new Catholic church in Budapest. From Architecture as Philosophy: The Work of Imre Makovecz, edited by Janos Gerle, Stuttgart, Edition Axel Axel: see Absalon. Menges, 2005, [euro]78. The Magyar Magus has now notched up a 40 year career in architecture, most of it spent proposing delightfully fantastical, craft-based, ecologically responsive alternatives to the grim, socialist-realist architecture of his native Hungary. This monograph charts an exuberant trajectory, prefaced by an appreciation by that estimable es·ti·ma·ble adj. 1. Possible to estimate: estimable assets; an estimable distance. 2. Deserving of esteem; admirable: an estimable young professor. champion of the organic, Peter Blundell Jones Peter Blundell Jones AA Dipl MA (Cantab) is a British architect, historian, academic and critic. He trained as an architect at the Architectural Association school, London and has held academic positions at the University of Cambridge and London South Bank University. . [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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