The community of architects committed to organic thinking first appeared at the exhibition Living Hungarian Architecture forty years ago. The ideas formulated by Imre Makovecz and the essence of the exhibitors’ works are perhaps even more relevant today. The strengthening of impersonal intelligence, the disintegration of communities, the aggressiveness of financial power, and the global pseudo-culture striving for dominance make life an even more questionable matter for humanity today.

A large number of professionals who embrace living architecture in Hungary provide an alternative to the world, a possibility for a more humane way of life: they continue to link heaven and earth, the male and female principles. They continue to seek the divine in humankind and to perceive what is concealed beyond the visible. Organic thinking and architecture strive to continue nature: to be the organic extension of a culture rooted in ancient traditions, the symbols of folk art and traditional thought.
Celebrating the 90th anniversary of Imre Makovecz’s birth, his colleagues, admirers, followers and students are exhibiting their projects made in recent years.

Cover image: Attila Turi: Elementary School, Budakeszi, 2018 (photo by György Dénes)

Organizer: Károly Kós Foundation / Architectural Section of the Hungarian Academy of Arts