The association is bringing an exhibition and a film to UIA2011 on the architecture of the Hungarian Secession or Art Nouveau period, Hungarian architecture in the Bauhaus, and the Modernist architecture of Shanghai as seen in the work of the Hungarian László Hudec.
The exhibition shows the ?acclaimed intellectual accomplishment integrating all the artistic genre? of the Hungarian Secession, the architects from the Hungarian city of Pécs who made their names as abroad as members of the Bauhaus, and the unlikely career path of László Hudec, who designed some of Shanghai?s most famous buildings.
The curator of the exhibition is György Szegő. The film was made by János Csontos, Lajos Novák and Györgyi Csontos.
The theme of the 24th UIA World Congress is ?Design 2050?, expressed as ?Beyond disasters, through Solidarity, towards Sustainability? by the organisers.
?In the 21st century, we will need to overcome many challenges in fields that include the environment, energy, the economy, population, food, education and like the disaster we witnessed on March 11th along the Northeast coast Japan. The architectural community cannot solve these problems alone. Solutions will only be founded when all people can work together across national borders, and when the barriers of religion, ethnicity, gender, generation or industry have been removed. We will merge together the wisdom of technology of people everywhere create a future vision of the world of 2050, within which we will seek out ideas for the future for cities and architecture,? say the UIA 2011 Tokyo organisers.
Author: Eszter Götz
