The Café Makovecz series will continue through 2019 as well. Like before, it will take place on the first Monday of each month. In January, Ybl Prize winning architect Lőrinc Csernyus will present about the first volume of the Makovecz Routes, a recently released publication. Volume one is the first of seven “petals”, as the…

At the December event of the Café Makovecz series, Ybl-prize winner architect Lőrinc Csernyus will talk about the past and present of the Seven Towers festival. He will recall the early days of the festival, the experiences of recent years and also touch on this year’s festival venues and locations. The presentation will also feature…

The Hungarian Academy of Arts (MMA) and its Institute for Art Theory and Methodology Research (MMA-MMKI) is staging an art conference. The conference will feature a 2 x 45-minute lecture by Gyula Klima, PhD in philosophy. The lecture is titled Soul is the shape of the body, art is the shape of the soul. Venue…

Venue: Makovecz Centre and Archives 18:00     Opening ceremony. Speech by TamásCsányi, conductor of the Cistercian Saint Emerich Church’s Choir. Event hosted by Pál Makovecz, chairman of the Imre Makovecz Foundation Board. 18:15     Imre Makovecz in Mongolia – presentation by architect Lőrinc Csernyus At the Fonó Music House of Buda 18:45     Concert by the Szászcsávási Band….

Art historian Miklós Sulyok will deliver his lecture titled “Time and Presence in Imre Makovecz’s Thinking”, originally scheduled for May. The presentation will focus on two key notions of Imre Makovecz’s works: loss of memory and missing the present. As Miklós Sulyok puts it: “These concepts are based on the very notions of time and…

With the kind support of the Hungarian Academy of Arts, an exhibition showcasing Imre Makovecz’s works was staged in six Russian cities and in Mongolia’s capital. The exhibitions’ curator was Ybl-prize winning architect Lőrinc Csernyus, member of the Imre Makovecz Foundation’s board. The Café Makovecz event in November will feature a slide show and video…

Under the title “The mysterious world of flowers” a.k.a “ Delegates of distant continents in the Hungarian flowergardens” Judit Lechner holds a lecture in the Makovecz Center and Archives. “The spirit of a landscape is carried by locals, houses, churches, but also the flowers of the gardens. If we get to know them and use…

At the October event of the Café Makovecz series, Ybl Prize winning architect Lőrinc Csernyus will hold a presentation titled “The Drama of Construction”. Among other topics, the presentation will touch on the construction of the Hungarian pavilion in Seville and the refurbishment of the Kakasd village house.

The Ars Sacra Festival emerged from a “City mission” series of events held in 2007. The objective of the festival is to present the signs of hope in culture, and to help Europe with the means of art to find its roots again. The festival features a combined screening and presentation by Lőrinc Csernyus, Ybl-prize…

The August “Café Makovecz” event featured a lecture by Ybl-prize winner architect and former Makovecz student Lőrinc Csernyus. The lecture was titled “Imre Makovecz and the nomadic generation” – from the folk dance house movement to the Károly Kós Association’s School for Roving Architects.