Hesitant Decisions : Sports and Cultural Center, Budapest

Magyar, Peter

ISBN 10: 1490755640 / ISBN 13: 9781490755649

Published by Trafford Pub, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hesitant Decisions : Sports and Cultural Center, Budapest
• Publisher: Trafford Pub
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1490755640
• ISBN 13: 9781490755649
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Working at the boundaries of the known, the unknown and the unknowable, I prioritize the two latter notions. Intend to excavate the preconscious from the subconscious strata. My tools are my pen and lately the stylus (for drawing on digital tablets). The material starting point is the epidermis of the place, but from there one has to ascend to the rarefied spheres of thought and even feelings. This floating in the domains of the unknown and unknowable, unfortunately during the design process and as the straight consequence of the same, shifts more and more towards the domain of the known, and in the constructed reality every unknown must be excluded. My process drawings aim to serve the prolongation of the floating phase, and interrogate that hope, whether the materialized reality could convey anything at all from the Icarusean gift, provided by the design experience for its enthusiastic laborer. - More: http//www.youtube.com.watch?v=JhxyTozjHE video which shows the method, and the direct ink drawing mode on opaque paper.

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Hesitant Decisions

Sports and Cultural Center, Budapest

By PETER MAGYAR

Trafford Publishing

Copyright © 2015 Peter Magyar
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-4907-5564-9

INTRODUCTION

This collection of sketches differ from the previous ones, because they led to the - at least - partial construction of the large urban ensemble of the Budapest Sports and Cultural Center. It was a result of another competition, when the winners were invited to the design of the complex. We - with Dr. Antal Lazar and the A & D Studio - won the first prize, and eventually the commission. Interesting distant cooperation resumed, between Pennsylvania and later Florida, and the office in Budapest, Hungary. More then eight hundred drawings were faxed back and forth, from which just a bit over a hundred are depicted here, my ink drawings, if not otherwise noted. The creative talent of my partner and friend, Tony, and his colleagues, tested and amended the sketches, and eventually executed the construction documents. We had a very fruitful and constructive collaboration, making from the tentative and sometimes crazy drawn ideas a physical reality. It didn't help, that the change of government and following delays resulted in a decade-long postponement and several changes in the completion of the project. At the time of the writing of these lines, the construction resumed and there is a hope, that the long stagnant "thorn hall", as it is called by the press, finally opens its gates to the expectant public.

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