Hungary to Show BorderLINE at Biennale

"The Hungarian Pavilion aims to lead back the visitors to the very origin of architecture and the first intellectual experience of our human existence. It is a borderline-project in the widest sense of the meaning. The phenomenon of Borderline refers to the split personality of an architect between different possible techniques as it refers to the position of our country, as it also refers to the juxtaposition of line and space, drawing and architecture," according to the project's application.

 

"Architects do not build houses, architects do not create spaces. They usually can do no more than draw lines. Lines with computers, lines with pencils or pens, lines drawn in space, lines that sometimes do not even create space because of the fact that most of the time they appear on a flat, two-dimensional surface," the application concedes. "The line...becomes the borderline between the non-definable element of a computer image and the pure, personal and uncompromised trace of the pencil," it adds.

 

The application beat eight other valid bids to represent Hungary in Venice. It was chosen by a jury of the art historian and deputy head of department at the Ministry of Education and Culture Géza Boros, the architect and head of the Hungarian Architects Association Ernő Kálmán, the artist and founder of an architects forum on the internet Erika Katalina Pásztor, the architect, city researcher and critic Levente Polyák, the architect and chief planner for KÖZTI Zrt. György Skardelli, the journalist and critic Nóra Somlyódy, and the architect Judit Z. Halmágyi.

 

The commissioner for the Hungarian pavilion is Zsolt Petrányi.