Transformations of Hungarian traditional Town Centers in the Era of Socialism - Two Case Studies

Present essay summarises the history of two Hungarian towns related to centralising institutional development in the State Socialist Era, both are characteristic, although still unique in many respect.As these buildings of special importance were built typically in central areas, their relationship...

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Main Author: Kornélia Kissfazekas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Ljubljana 2013-01-01
Series:AR: Arhitektura, Raziskave
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Online Access:http://www.fa.uni-lj.si/filelib/9_ar/2013-1/09-ar2013-1-kissfazekas.pdf
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description Present essay summarises the history of two Hungarian towns related to centralising institutional development in the State Socialist Era, both are characteristic, although still unique in many respect.As these buildings of special importance were built typically in central areas, their relationship with the already existing historic centres is an important question. For me one of the main conclusions of the presented two examples is that a basically positive development decision regarding urban structure later can take different directions in the course of “refining” development schemes, and architectural detailing. While development in Kecskemét became fiasco because of its disproportion, neglect of contextual scale, in Szekszárd the presence of the building ensemble is acceptable because of the refined balance of architectural details, and it is reinforcing the urban ideas.
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spelling doaj.art-d704c18bae05465c95b85288450fa5aa2023-09-03T05:41:41ZengUniversity of LjubljanaAR: Arhitektura, Raziskave1580-55731581-69742013-01-01XIV192101Transformations of Hungarian traditional Town Centers in the Era of Socialism - Two Case StudiesKornélia KissfazekasPresent essay summarises the history of two Hungarian towns related to centralising institutional development in the State Socialist Era, both are characteristic, although still unique in many respect.As these buildings of special importance were built typically in central areas, their relationship with the already existing historic centres is an important question. For me one of the main conclusions of the presented two examples is that a basically positive development decision regarding urban structure later can take different directions in the course of “refining” development schemes, and architectural detailing. While development in Kecskemét became fiasco because of its disproportion, neglect of contextual scale, in Szekszárd the presence of the building ensemble is acceptable because of the refined balance of architectural details, and it is reinforcing the urban ideas.http://www.fa.uni-lj.si/filelib/9_ar/2013-1/09-ar2013-1-kissfazekas.pdfstate socialistInstitution Centres in the 1960-70-iesurban contexturban structureurban fabricurban design
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Transformations of Hungarian traditional Town Centers in the Era of Socialism - Two Case Studies
AR: Arhitektura, Raziskave
state socialist
Institution Centres in the 1960-70-ies
urban context
urban structure
urban fabric
urban design
title Transformations of Hungarian traditional Town Centers in the Era of Socialism - Two Case Studies
title_full Transformations of Hungarian traditional Town Centers in the Era of Socialism - Two Case Studies
title_fullStr Transformations of Hungarian traditional Town Centers in the Era of Socialism - Two Case Studies
title_full_unstemmed Transformations of Hungarian traditional Town Centers in the Era of Socialism - Two Case Studies
title_short Transformations of Hungarian traditional Town Centers in the Era of Socialism - Two Case Studies
title_sort transformations of hungarian traditional town centers in the era of socialism two case studies
topic state socialist
Institution Centres in the 1960-70-ies
urban context
urban structure
urban fabric
urban design
url http://www.fa.uni-lj.si/filelib/9_ar/2013-1/09-ar2013-1-kissfazekas.pdf
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