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Hungary Goes Organic |
| Section: THE ARTS / ARCHITECTURE |
| Author: Marcus Binney |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 7/1/1992 |
| Size: 1,690 Words, 10,231 Characters |
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Architecturally speaking, Hungary has already arrived in the twenty-first century, or perhaps the twenty-fifth, or gone back to the seventh. Its new-wave architecture is a startling mix of science fiction, middle-earth mythology, and peasant tradition.
"We want to erect buildings that make us remember our origins and ancestry," says Imre Makovecz, the presiding genius of the country's new school of organic architecture.
Architect Gyorgy Csete explains that the school grew from the dreadful suppression following the Hungarian uprising of 1956, when Soviet tanks rolled in as the world looked on helplessly. "Folk architecture became the base of the architecture of resistance," he says. His inspiration in these dark times came from prohibited populist writers and turn-of-the-centur...
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...atonszentgyorgy. Evoking the ancient peasant traditions on the Hungarian plains, it has as its centerpiece a giant white rocket. Over a glass of slibovitch you can decide whether you have arrived in the seventh century or the twenty-fifth. And should you meet Mr. Santa you will recognize him by his Planet X haircut--which falls over his forehead in exactly the same inverted V as the windows.
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