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Excerpts from the preface:

“My topics are Makovecz’s anthroposophical views, his activity verging on anthropology, ethnology-ethnography and the fine arts: his three “actions”, five non-official “publications”, three experimental exhibitions and an ornamentation research, based on which a new concept of architecture could evolve in the 1960s-‘70s. This new concept is that of the art of building, in which the architect’s studio/workshop plays the decisive role via collective thinking and experiments, as against the office of the engineer as an employee of industry and technology. The first of the papers was presented at a conference on inter-art connections in Debrecen in 2012 and was published in the volume of proceedings, the second is based on an exhibition project Lőrinc Csernyus, Attila Turi and I submitted for the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2012; the third (Un ballo sensa maschera) appeared in Kolozsvár in the issue of Korunk concentrating on phenomenology, and the last one is based on a conference lecture in Venice about regionalism highlighting Makovecz and Géza Samu, the new dimensions of their tradition-based works (it was eventually published in 2012, too, in a new form). Since there was no possibility to attach illustrations to all of these publications, now this book can be consummated through them. I am indebted to reviewer Júlia Fabényi and the editorial work of the MMA Publishing Office and István Szathmári.”

In English and Hungarian language.