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Hungary: the organic and the rational traditions

2006; Wiley; Volume: 76; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/ad.263

1554-2769

Edwin Heathcote,

Urbanization and City Planning

Abstract The most memorable architectural images of the early 1990s were those of the organic architecture of Imre Makovecz. With their extraordinary, Expressionist timber forms, they encapsulated for the West the romantic possibilities of the architecture that lay behind the former Iron Curtain. Edwin Heathcote, who in 1997 wrote a monograph on Imre Makovecz for Academy Editions, here explains why ‘the organic’ counterpoised by ‘the rational’ has continued to provide such a rich dialogue for contemporary Hungarian architecture. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.