Homes of Eight Decades: Exhibition on Housing Architecture of Győr, Hungary

A recently opened exhibition in the Rómer Múzeum – Esterházy Palace, Győr showcases the milestones of local housing architecture. Gergely Hartmann, local architecture historian and a lecturer of our 2016 conference, also took part in the organization. Congrats, Gergely!

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The exhibition ‘Homes of Eight Decades’ (Nyolc évtized otthonai) presents the significant dwellings and apartman complexes erected in Győr-Moson-Sopron county between 1910 and 1990. The organizers aimed to showcase at least one significant development from each era, among them, the well-known Modernist block of flats from Sopron, and one of the last so-called ‘panel’ housing estates from Győr-Marcaliváros. The exhibited material contains archive images, digitalized original plans and aerial photographs, made expecially for this occasion. Two photo of the tipical ‘cube-houses’ of Hungary, part of the collection of Katharina Rothers and József Szolnoki, are also part of the exhibit.

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