This year’s Budapest100 architecture and culture festival celebrated the city’s late modern heritage, the buildings of the 1970s. We had the honour to include the 50-year-old modern house of our founder Balázs Miklós among the buildings that could be visited.
The house was designed and built by architect Balázs Miklós for his own use. The house was built in 1972 with bold, innovative solutions, and is distinguished by its slender structure, unique details, beautiful panorama and the lush garden that surrounds it. A special feature of the event was the fact that the 120 participants were guided through the house by the architect himself, who introduced them to his life and work, and told them about the architecture that was in the process of changing at the time of construction.
With this year’s theme, Budapest100 aimed to start a dialogue on architecture from a decade, or even a whole era, about which little information is available due to the lack of information. In the absence of knowledge, many buildings of great architectural and urban value are at risk of demolition or renovation that completely obscures their original character.
The programme was organised by KÉK – Contemporary Architecture Centre.
The photos were taken by Gergely Schöff.
