An afternoon with the Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre

Join the team of KÉK from Budapest to hear about the recent projects.

Bec Zmiana Foundation in cooperation with the KÉK – Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre organizes a screening in the framework of their joint international project called ‘Filming the Central European City’ that aims to generate dialogue about architecture and filmmaking in a regional context.

Program

Friday, 21. November 2014 | 18:00 – 21: 00

Venue: Hungarian Cultural Institute Warsaw

18:00 – How to reactivate vacant spaces? Lessons learned from the ‘Open!  – Festival of shops for rent’ in Budapest

Lakatlan’ is an initiative by the KÉK – Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre. It discusses, maps and activates vacant spaces in Budapest. Their recent endeavour was a month long festival where unoccupied retail spaces were filled with life by giving space for socially engaged art and cultural enterprises, art projects. Julia Oravecz and Judit Schanz curators of the festival will discuss the results of the project from the perspective of their long-term goal, i.e. finding solutions to the emerging problem of vacant properties in our cities. Watch the festival video here.

19:00 – Screening and discussion on architecture and filmmaking

Screening of student films that were produced during a film course in cooperation between the Budapest Architecture Film Days and the Budapest University of Technology (BUTE). Students had the task to interpret the topic of the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale (‘Absorbing Modernity 1914-2014′). The screening is introduced by Bálint Kádár (Head of KÉK, lecturer at BUTE) who will discuss his experience of combining these two disciplines in architectural education.

20:00 – Screening of Glass Houses (D: Olga Matuszewska, 2014, ’30) and Avangarde Kindergarden (D: Olga Matuszewska, 2012, ’11)

The documentaries of Olga Matuszewska investigate the history of social housing in Zoliborz and a preschool building commissioned in 1948 as part of Warsaw Housing Cooperative that presents a unique form of social architecture.