2023-05-10 19:15:00
In the case of our country, perhaps it can be stated in relation to almost every settlement that there are buildings and building complexes whose destruction is particularly painful. In this situation, monument architecture plays a major role, because as modern architecture dies out, more and more attention is paid to the built heritage. Miklós Prize-winning architect Erhardt Gábor Ybl presented about this on Wednesday Mathias Corvinus College (MCC) in the Szeged training center.
He pointed out, observing the buildings in Szeged as we progress from the 19th century to the present day, we can notice a very exciting change, and this is modern architecture, which has been the architectural aspect of the last hundred years. He added that modern architecture has changed the way we think about architecture to a very large extent, and something needs to be done about it. This is the “stumbling block”, i.e. the problem of managing time, which is what monumental architecture is all about. He said that at the beginning of the Renaissance, Gothic architecture with open and high spaces and lots of decorations was replaced by modern architecture with flat, closed spaces and carved stone.
It was said at the lecture that reconstruction does not mean that we keep and rebuild the building, but that it is restored to a completeness that it never could have been in any age, and the person planning the reconstruction tries to imagine what the architect who created the masterpiece would do for it at the time, I wonder what plans he would make now.
But this was not the case with the Roman Catholic church in Zsámbék, which was built in 1236 and then renovated in 1900, but instead of the original bricks, the architect tried, for example, artificial stone. It didn’t work, so at the turn of the millennium, the church was reconstructed again, then they decided on whitewashed brick, but it also differs from the original brick.
Budavári Palace also benefited from the reconstruction, during which, for example, the old ballroom was rebuilt, which today has been stripped bare and unused as an artefact warehouse, awaiting its fate for a long time. But the Szentháromság tér building of the former Ministry of Finance also received a much cleaner, simplified neo-Gothic facade during the renovation after World War II, and the building was mostly used as a beat club. The good news is that it will now regain its old appearance, after the renovation it will once again be a ministry building.
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