Reziduum. The Frequency of Architecture

After the foreword by the national commissioner Julia Fabényi and the curatorial introduction by Mária Kondor-Szilágyi, the catalogue contains three studies that place the exhibition in a broader interpretive framework from the point of view of museology, art history, and architecture.

Ethnographer Lajos Kemecsi, the general director of the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest, deals with the paradigm shift and role change of today’s museums and shows how it is possible to fill such an iconic, 21st-century building with modern content as the one in which one of Europe’s oldest ethnographic collections has moved.

Art historian Katalin Keserü reviews the use of folk art ornamentation in 20th-century and contemporary Hungarian architecture and pays special attention to the theoretical approach to the topic and the roots of Hungarian organic architecture.

Architectural writer Levente Móré analyses the design concept of the Museum of Ethnography and the completed building, presents the historical and urban antecedents of the place, and provides an overview of parallels in foreign museum architecture.

Finally, we present a document of source value: the architect-composer Péter Mátrai’s description of the unique experimental instrument created for the exhibition, the Soundcylinder, and his electronic music installation, Sounding space.

The catalogue was edited by Géza Boros and Mária Szilágyi-Kondor and designed by graphic artist Zsombor Kiss.

Language: English