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9. October 2006
opening of the exhibition
f_f_f "fiatalok feketén fehéren"

(young architects' generation) MÉSZ Budapest
7. October 2006, 18.00
the SIGN for the world architecture day 2006 is set up in front of the Gödör at Erzsébet tér article (through epiteszforum)
1. October 2006
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3. February 2006
15 years transit in Pécs
video installation on contemporary Hungarian architecture 1989-2004
(Csorna School)
Opening:
25. January 2005, 18:00

minusplus_architects at
EMERGING IDENTITIES - EAST!
>Berlin- Bratislava- Budapest- Ljubljana- Prag- Riga- Tallinn- Vilnius- Warschau<
Young Architects
from the new EU-member states
DAZ (German Center for Architecture)
24. November 2005 - 20. February 2006


exhibition catalogue is available through Jovis Verlag, editor: Kristien Ring / DAZ

arq./a magazine No.34
features the Csorna School
November 2005

15 years transit
in Kolozsvár / Cluj (RO)
video installation on contemporary Hungarian architecture 1989-2004
(Csorna School)
Opening: 12.December 2005, 19:00
tranzithouse.ro

Collaborative Strategies
minusplus_architects presentation at holland formabontas_architecture day
"Situation of young architects in Holland and Hungary / Starting an architectural practice in NL and HU"
at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics
2. December 2005

second prize at the Arts Campus (University of Pécs) competition
5. November 2005
Strategic Design
minusplus_architects presentation at térjel event in Győr
4. November 2005

Today Minister of Culture András Bozóky announced after the meeting of the government:
In 2010 Pécs will be the European Capital of Culture!
(probably with Essen or Goerlitz)
19. October 2005
hg.hu features an article about minusplus_architects
27. September 2005

Digital Forms - Digital Spectacles
the thematic issue of
MAGYAR ÉPÍTŐMŰVÉSZET 2005/4 features an interview with minusplus_architects read an short extratit here in English or here in Hungarian


plus an article about Zsolt's Hauszmann-prize winning Diploma Project
September 2005
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2006
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Caprice Shop Andrássy út Budapest
Interior design, completed in 2006
new
The SIGN Budapest
architectural sign for the world architecture day 2006 Budapest
new
Molnár sziget Swimming Pool and Sports Hall
Budapest
Architectural design competition
new
HOVAL Hungary Headquarters Veresegyház
Competition of the Masters' Training Postgraduate Course (BUTE) - first prize
new
Reurbanization of the area of the
ex-Petőfi-armybase
Budapest
DLA competition - first prize
new
Swimming Pool and Sports Hall
Pilisvörösvár
Architectural design competition
Cemetery Competition Vaskeresztes
Ideas competition of the Masters' Training Postgraduate Course (BUTE)

Reconnection and revaluation of the different nationalities' cemeteries with the village church. A very sensitive intervention in the landscape reduced to the ultimate minimum with an emotional passage and space structures beside the Pinka-creek.
2005
New urban development
Forcalquier (les Marcels), France
Restricted urban typology competition

Invention of the old-new typologies of a virgin area, researching the logic of a beautiful landscape in Provence . Creation of a new town centre, defining the densities and articulations of this quasi new village.
I love Budapest
Urban ideas competition
Linking: 1.across the river with an activity field: Dunapark 2. along the Danube with a cultural boat stream
Arts Campus - University of Pécs
Architectural design competition - second prize
Cork City Library
International architectural design competition
an open market of written thoughts
Cork city's by-passes via the blocks were the prefiguration for the setting of the building. These foot-paths slash their ways through the sides of building site, thus the main volume is not touching the surrounding buildings, the interior pinches towards the back, creating outer public spaces under the widening volume of the upper floors. The covered market place opens up to the outer squares. Ambiences of public spaces are intensified by the reused elements of the city. Pews, street lights, and square-like pavement nets the ground floor, creating an opened urban zone for arriving. The intermediate levels are hiding behind the media, books and bookshelves obscure the building. The top floor is a covered urban garden, an interconnected forest for meditation.

Orczy street 31. Budapest
Social housing competition by Rév8

We were invited to this competition which is one of the major social housing competition for years. Five sites, five times five studios.
As this competition aims to be a flagship for social interventions in the district, we created a compact mass, with an opened up interior system and an iconic typology.
As an analysis of the word social, the house is reduced to a livable compromise: building and operational costs to minimum, spatial qualities and flexibility to maximum.
Corvin Promenade Budapest
Urban typology and housing competition
Re and re and rethinking the impossible. Struggling to bring life and a new attractive identity to the still-born old school city axis.

Atelier House Reitter street 131. Budapest
Architectural design competition

The regulations determined the layout of the building: continuing the chess-board pattern of the surrounding panel blocks,keeping the embedded typology of the area.
We created a diversified section with public spaces opened together on the underground and ground floor and the ateliers put up with a stacked inner level of ateliers between sesquistorey ones. The variety of ateliers is provided by the randomized displacement of the structural frame of cross-walls.
We created two basic volumes: the ateliers are gathered in a box, a wooden wardrobe opening to north, while it is surrounded with an organic concrete-structure of public spaces and corridors.
After all the main volume of the ateliers are hidden under an organic frame of public spaces as an Easter egg lays in the grass.
Denevér street apartments Budapest
Concept design
Three apartment blocks are placed to create a coherent yet individual typology at a prime location.
2004
Caprice Exclusive Shop InterContinental Budapest
Interior design, completed in 2004
The first exclusive boutique for the world famous Caprice International in Budapest. A real jewellery-box.
Kossuth square Pécs
Urban design competition
Multifunctional setting with strong visual elements. Based on structural analysis of places to create new identity for an everyday-use environment.
Orphanage II. Phase Budapest
Architectural design competition
Redemption of Aga street orphanage. A clean, embracing mass with a warmly decorated interior-like patio.
Apollo movie theatre Pécs
Concept design of the reconstruction
Rearrangement and restyling of an old movie theatre and concepts for a new club.
Jóban-rosszban
Scenic design
3d realization and visualizations for the interior design of the Hungarian hospital series on tv2.
Paris Olympic Landmark
International design competition
The Olympic Landmark 's objective will be to inform the general public about Paris' bid. We proposed a giant flame-like temporary structure.
Csata - Hun housing complex Budapest
Concept design
Implanting new solutions to bring to life a traditional block on the edge of the city.
S house Vácegres
Restricted architectural design competition
A proposition for the new Somody residence.

Special School for mentally disabled Csorna Complete design, completed in 2004

This complex made up of two buildings is the center for mentally disabled children in North-West Hungary.
The aim was to reaccent the existing hierarchy with a meaningful yet sensual public building in this small town tissue.
This house is the larger one of the two units hosting the sports hall, the restaurant and some public functions too. The inner courts of the house and the long cut that joins the two streets filter into each other creating a narrow transitory space reconstituting the typology and scale of the town.
2003
Townhall of Budaörs
Architectural design competition
In order to reconstruct the hierarchy in this small town we had to go large. A simple mass with innovative solutions and facades.
120 apartments II Pécs
Architectural design competition
A new approach to our 1999 project for the next plot. Refining territorial limits and articulations, creating context in a non-contextual situation.
Orphanage for 40 children Budapest
Architectural design competition
Two solutions for the same issue: how to ensure family like environments in an institutional frame. typo O
Orphanage for 40 children Budapest
Architectural design competition
Two solutions for the same issue: how to ensure family like environments in an institutional frame. typo L
Zoo & Botanical garden Budapest
Concept design & Feasibility studies
Mixing territorial and financial strategies: more place to animals.
University of Medical Sciences (SOTE)
Educational Center
Budapest
Architectural design competition
Implementing a membrane structure: 100% flexible interior to hold the incredible program mass.
SENSESIX for Baltazar Theatre
Research
Experimenting how to offer the sixth sense sensations for a theatre group of mentally disabled people.
Krétakör Theatre - contemporary arts complex
6. OISTAT
Theatre architecture competition Prague
Spicing up the multi-culty, for the opening show with a hyperlinked storyline.
Corvin-Szigony Urban revitalization Budapest
Architectural and landscape competition
The largest urban revitalization in Central Europe by cutting a 400m long new axis into the old tissue.
2002
Contemporary art complex for KRÉTAKÖR Theatre Group
ELMŰ headquarters Budapest
Concept design & Feasibility studies
Transformation of an industry site for KRÉTAKÖR into a multi-culty.
Church & Parsonage Páty
Architectural design competition
Tracing different layers on each other we simulated the historical process of temple building.
Pastry school Ljubljana
Architectural design competition
Defining the lower end of the city core by linking house, water and environment following Plecnik's footsteps.
Expo center Pécs
Urban design competition
Implementation of the expo and conference centre by filling a void in the city structure with a new landmark in the valley between old and new.
Fire station of Békásmegyer Budapest
Architectural design competition
Suburban edging: filling up a solid metallic box with an indefinable changing, flaming facade.
Railway-terminal and surroundings Ljubljana
Urban design competition
Working out strategies to incorporate and revitalize the city center rust zone: exploring new typologies to make the link.
2001
István mine - Abandoned mine site Pécs
Reconstruction ideas competition
10 minutes from the city center in the surrounding hills old industry buildings are to host a cultural and recreational resort.
St. Mór Cath. School Sports Complex Pécs
Architectural design competition
Surrounded by delicate masses, the immense units placed in the depth of the plot, partly underground in order to preserve the scale.
in between cities EUROPAN 6 Budapest
International urban design competition
The strategy we introduce here is using elements of present and past systems. The dominance of the different elements depend on the required transition.
2000
120 apartments Pécs
Social housing competition
Invention of the semi-spaces at an offending location, implementing a variety of spatial structures.
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lectures & exhibitions
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minusplus interview in piknik radiocafé 98.6
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the SIGN for the world architecture day 2006
article (through epiteszforum) Gödör, Budapest
new
minusplus diploma projects featuring at közép60
3 exhibitions showing the 60 years of the Department of Public Building Design of Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Budapest Galéria Budapest
new
workshop and presentation at EASA006 Budapest
new
f_f_f "fiatalok feketén fehéren"
(young architects' generation) series of exhibitions
MÉSZ Budapest
new
Bálványdöntés
(Breaking the idols)
conversation with young Hungarian architects
Zsolt Zsuffa - Ákos Schreck
moderated by
Andor Wesselényi-Garay
MÉSZ Budapest
new
Young Blood
"I'm a young Hungerian architect!"
series of architectural exhibitions
CCEA Prague
KÉK Budapest
new
two dee
minusplus arcitects exhibition
N&n galéria Budapest
new
minusplus_architects presentation
Rómer Ház Győr
15 years transit 1989-2004
video installation on contemporary Hungarian architecture
(Csorna School)

2006
26. Jan - 15. Feb: Pécs (H)
2005
12. Dec - 21. Dec: Cluj / Kolozsvár (RO)
01. Nov - 25. Nov: Graz (A)
22. Sep - 08.Nov: Eisenstadt (A)
18. Aug - 31. Aug: Nyíregyháza (H)
03. Mar - 24. Mar: Budapest (H)
2004
11. Nov - 05. Dec: Győr (H)
01. Oct - 06. Nov: Leiden (NL)
17. Jun - 01. Jul: Freiburg (D)
Collaborative Strategies minusplus_architects presentation at holland formabontas_architecture day
"Situation of young architects in Holland and Hungary / Starting an architectural practice in NL and HU"
at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics
2. December 2005
Strategic Design
minusplus_architects presentation at térjel event in Győr
4. November 2005
Locative Media
Lecture with Balázs Bodó in Pécs
Introduction of architecture studios:
minusplus_architects
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Octopus workshop
Presentation at SZIGET festival Budapest
KORTÁRSOKK
Architecture and visual culture
Lecture at the MEDIAFACTORY Pécs International contemporary arts seminar
1999-2003
Individual exhibition in Pécs
KÖZBEN (In the meantime)
Contemporary Hungarian architecture
Kunsthalle, Budapest
Fejtisztítás (Head cleaning)
Young Hungarian architects
OCTOGON Galéria, Budapest
+036 ONE TOUCH
Young Hungarian architects
Finzgarjeva Galeria, Ljubljana
SENSESIX
Exhibition and video installation
Prague Quadrennial
EUROPAN 6
MÉMOSZ headquarters, Budapest
books & publications
new
OCTOGON Architecture & Design 2006/3.
interview
[What are you working on?]
EMERGING IDENTITIES - EAST!
>Berlin- Bratislava- Budapest- Ljubljana- Prag- Riga- Tallinn- Vilnius- Warschau<
Young Architects from the new EU-member states
exhibition catalogue is available through Jovis Verlag, editor: Kristien Ring / DAZ
arq./a magazine No.34
features the Csorna School
November 2005
MAGYAR ÉPÍTŐMŰVÉSZET 2005/4.
Digital Forms - Digital Spectacles
an interview with minusplus_architects read an short extratit here in English or here in Hungarian
plus an article about Zsolt's Hauszmann-prize winning Diploma Project
September 2005
A10 magazine #5
Atelier House, Budapest
/text by Emiel Lamers/
Otto Kapfinger: Neue Architektur in Burgenland und Westungarn
ÁTLÓ magazine 2005/1.
Town hall of Budaörs
NÉPSZABADSÁG LXII., 175/2.
Négyből kettő, a kettőből egy /text by Tamás Torma/
MAGYAR ÉPÍTŐMŰVÉSZET 2004/3
Iskola-példák /text by Péter Bach/
OCTOGON Architecture & Design 2004/1.
Döntetlen
/text by József Martinkó/
KÖZBEN (In the meantime)
15 years of architecture from the change of the political system to the EU accession 1989-2004
/edited by Iván András Bojár/
OCTOGON Books 4.
Echo 2003/5-6.
A karakter keresése
/text by Katalin Gettó/
Élet és Irodalom XLVII/49. Hungary
Ember és környezete (.pdf)
/text by Mihály Varga/
Attitudes no. 5 (2002) Switzerland
under the name of: Par rapport - artwork in collaboration with FKSE
Echo 2000/4. Hungary
120 apartments competition
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