Le Corbusier’s Towards a New Architecture is usually read as a manifesto promoting an engineering approach to architecture that is also a “limpid and impressive plastic fact”. Yet its complexity allows for further interpretations, including the neglected perspective of architecture’s relation to the landscape. The text contains numerous statements on the building-landscape relationship, urban planning […]
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Open Spaces, Green Areas: The Szeged Circular Embankment as a Green Ring in the Plans of Endre Pálfy-Budinszky
In 1879, the Hungarian city of Szeged was destroyed by the flooding Tisza River, necessitating its rebuilding from Lajos Lechner’s plans. With it, Szeged developed a central urban structure, with a circular embankment aligned with the boulevards protecting it from floods (Szegedi Körtöltés). In the 1930s, Dr. Endre Pálfy-Budinszky, Szeged’s chief architect, began developing a […]