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An architect appalled at communism and consumerism alike
Visitors to the Hungarian pavilion at the 1992 Seville Expo came in from the searing heat to a cavernous, dark space with a great curving roof like a cathedral. At its centre was a tree, brought from the Hungarian plains, stripped bare and set into a glass floor so that its roots, which stretched as far and wide as its branches, were made visible.
It was the work of Hungarian architect Imre Makovecz, who has died aged 75.
— ft.com
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Makovecz showed that you don't need a computer to get away from the orthogonal: http://www.makovecz.hu/
Dear Chicagoski, you say it so well …another way I would like to say: it is so difficult to do it with wood as basic material. But the imagination melts even stones…look at Parque Guell in Barcelona and all Gaudi’s architecture
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