Latvijas Arhitektūras muzejs
Rīga, Mazā Pils iela 19, LV-1050, tālr. 7220779
www.archmuseum.lv
Open: Mon. 9.00-18.00; Tu., Wed., Th. 9.00.-17.00; Fri. 9.00-16.00; week-end - closed

Museum inhabits one of the Medieval dwelling houses in Old Riga., known as “Three brothers”.

19.05.2011-15.07.2011
Exhibition of Works by Architect Imre Makovecz (Hungary)

Imre Makovecz, an emblematic figure of Hungarian architecture, was born in 1935 in Budapest. He attended the Technical University of Budapest; as an architect active in Europe from the late 1950s onward. He is a seminal figure of Hungarian organic architecture. His architecture has philosophical foundations; he considers Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy the cornerstone of his work. The way he organizes space, rely on the forms of the human body, a vision that has won him many a follower in Hungary and internationally. His work is a follow-up to the formal innovation of such Hungarian architects as Ödön Lechner and Károly Kós. In its attempts to refer to and build on Hungarian national archetypes Makovecz was continuing the work and ideas of the architects of Hungarian Art Nouveau and National Romanticism. His work began as a critique of communist ideology and the brutal uniformity of system building but, after the fall of the Communist regime in 1989, it became a comment on the nature of globalisation and corporate culture.