Until 3 March 2024, the Weissenhof Museum in Stuttgart in the Le Corbusier House is presenting the exhibition “Budapest Experimental Estate – Napraforgó Street Model Houses” with the architects who were involved at the time and are so well-known in Hungary, such as Farkas Molnár, Virgil Bierbauer and József Fischer. A curator’s tour (2 March 2024) and an evening of lectures (22 February 2024) on modern architecture will accompany the exhibitions “Light and Form” (Liszt Institute) and “Budapest Experimental Estate – Napraforgó Street Model Houses” (Weissenhof Workshop in the Mies van der Rohe House).
Exhibition Experimental Estate Budapest – Model Houses Napraforgó-street
In 1931, an experimental housing estate with detached houses was built in Budapest. Today it is known as the Napraforgó Street estate. It was initiated by a group of Hungarian architects and realised by the construction company Fejér és Dános. Their aim was to find new solutions to the housing problem. …
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Image above: Unknown photographer Farkas Molnár Dálnoki-Kovács-Villa, Budapest, (around 1932), © MÉM MDK Photo Gallery