The exhibition, jointly organised by the Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre (KÉK) and the Hungarian Museum of Architecture and Monuments Protection Documentation Centre (HMA MPDC), will be open for a month at the Walter Rózsi Villa Workshop at 10 Bajza Street, Budapest.
Since 2008, KÉK has been organising the International Architectural Model Festival. This year, for the 7th time, the event will be co-organised by the Hungarian Museum of Architecture and the Centre for Documentation of Historic Monuments, at the site of the future new home of the Centre.
The motto of this year's festival is "learning by doing." In pedagogical terms, experiential learning refers to the fact that knowledge is best acquired through practice. Building on this understanding, the festival explores how the model helps to capture, express and communicate architectural thought. In other words: why do we make models?
The festival will showcase nearly three hundred models from national and international architectural practices, educational institutions and collections. The exhibition will feature amateur models, stage set models, artworks made by children and, of course, a range of experimental and work-in-progress models from architects, showing what model-making is all about. The festival programme is complemented by guided tours and workshops.
The exhibition is curated by Dániel Kovács, art historian (HMA MPDC), and the curatorial team includes Tamás Soós, architect, and Barbara Szij, art historian and KÉK staff member. The models are accompanied by a presentation of the artists in Hungarian and English. At the invitation of the curator, three external experts have also been involved in the realisation of the exhibition: the Malaysian-born Pei Yong, a graduate of the Architecture Association in London, the Cuban-born Adrian Labaut, a graduate of the Architecture Association in Milan, and András Weiszkopf, an architectural lecturer at the Department of Residential Building Design at the BME, will share their experiences with the visitors in their comments on the models they have chosen.
7th International Architectural Model Festival
Public opening: 26 September 2024, 18:00
Facebook-event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1021823262604634
The exhibition is open from Wednesdays to Sundays, 10:00-18:00
Address: Walter Rózsi Villa Műhelytér, VII. Budapest, Bajza u. 10.
Admission is free and possible with a registration ticket, available at the Walter Rózsi Villa.
