Archive for the 'memorials' Category

posters - demonumentalising

Monday, 23 July 2007

It’s interesting how the exact topic under investigation develops when one does research. I had pretty good idea of how to do work on the politics of architecture, but in the end I ended up focusing on memorials and public art for my Bauhaus Kolleg final presentation. Although I’ve been interested for years on public [...]

a new project: EU memorial

Wednesday, 11 July 2007

In the absence of the relevant analysis of the Hungarian or Finnish politics, or other architectural reflections…Here’s the link to my project of a temporary, mobile, interactive EU memorial. http://euflagmemorial.wordpress.com

It made part of the interventions we made in Sibiu and Luxembourg with the Bauhaus Kolleg. Now I work further on it, as you can see [...]

posters for bauhaus

Tuesday, 27 February 2007

below are the presentations for the mid-term projects here at the bauhaus kolleg.
Luxembourg personal project mid-term part one
Sibiu personal project mid-term part two
discourse theory and comparison
Personal contribution on sibiu memorials to group project

A hidden saint in Sibiu

Saturday, 3 February 2007

Sibiu 2006. A removed saint.
Until now, much of my academic work has been on street names, statues and memorials, and the, mainly, postcommunist politics of memory mainly in the context of Budapest but also on London. In Sibiu (Hermannstadt in German, Nagyszeben in Hungarian) in Transylvania, Romania, I was fascinated by this statue, which [...]