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Art's Role in Architecture Spurred on As Budapest Design Week Gets Underway

• 11 Oct 2024 9:31 AM

Budapest Design Week is under way in more than 100 locations in Budapest, Sopron and Pecs, and at the event's opening, a government official stressed the importance of nourishing the role of art and applied art in architecture.

From 2025 a small proportion of spending on state building investments will go towards works of art or applied art as integral parts of buildings, state secretary for architecture of the construction and transport ministry Rego Lanszki told a press opening of the event on Thursday.

Budapest Design Week welcomes those interested in the creative industry with creative programmes, temporary exhibitions, workshops and guided tours until October 20.

Zsofia Jakab, the ministerial commissioner for the development at the national economy ministry, who is also the chief executive of the Hungarian Fashion and Design Agency (MDDU), noted that Budapest Design Week is being organised by the MDDU for the first time.

Hopefully in future, the Design Week would strengthen the role it plays in the creative industry of not only Budapest but Hungary as a whole, she said.

Sopron Design Week is being organised for the ninth time, and DesignPecs aims to shed light on Baranya county's "hidden strengths", its local design and creative industry, she added.

MDDU said in a statement that the ELLE DECO International Design Awards (EDIDA) ceremony, known as the Oscars of the design world, takes place today, recognising the Hungarian design profession's outstanding creators and their works.
 

The main exhibition of the Budapest Design Week, 360 Design Budapest, will present the best works of domestic and regional design for the fifth time from Oct 15-20, and the former waiting room of the iconic Nyugati Railway station is the event's venue.

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Source: 
MTI - The Hungarian News Agency, founded in 1881.

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