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Volume 30, Number 4, pages 295-312 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.26830/symmetry_2019_4_295
ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION IN HUNGARY FROM 1928 TO 1948 ACCORDING TO THE CONTEMPORARY SPECIALISED PRESS
Rita Karácsony 1*, Zorán Vukoszávlyev 2
1 Address: Department of History of Architecture and Monument Preservation, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 3. Műegyetem rkp., Budapest 1111, Hungary.
E-mail: karacsonyr@gmail.com
2 Address: Department of History of Architecture and Monument Preservation, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 3. Műegyetem rkp., Budapest 1111, Hungary.
E-mail: zoran@eptort.bme.hu
* corresponding author
Abstract: Influenced by the Modern Movement and the Bauhaus, architectural education in Hungary underwent a major transformation in the late 1920s and early 1930s. From time to time, the Hungarian specialized press, especially the magazine Tér és Forma paid much attention to the issue of architectural education. Because of the latter, this study examines the process of change in architectural education over the 20 years of existence of Tér és Forma (1928–48), and the specialized press’s reactions to the changes. It can be stated that while the more conservative Magyar Építőművészet did not find it important to influence the issue of architectural education, Tér és Forma, representing modern architecture, tried, through published articles, to determine the directions the editorial team thought right. Instead of extremes, they urged students and professors to find a middle ground. The desired balance was achieved at the Department of Architecture of the Technical University: first in the principle of “conservative progress” and then in “meaningful simplicity”.
Keywords: architectural education, specialized press, Modernism, conservative progress, meaningful simplicity
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