kruh autumn 2022: Ákos Moravánszky and Andrea Deplazes

At the November lecture of the Kruh association titled Flows of Thought, Flows of Matter, Hungarian architectural historian and educator Ákos Moravánszky will speak alongside prominent Swiss architect and theorist Andrea Deplazes, co-founder of Bearth & Deplazes Architekten.

Ákos Moravánszky is a Hungarian architect, architectural historian, and titular professor of architectural theory at ETH Zurich. He studied architecture at the Budapest University of Technology and the history of art and heritage preservation at the Vienna University of Technology. He is interested in the history of architecture in Eastern and Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is engaged in research and publishing activities. Among other roles, he was the editor-in-chief of the Hungarian Union of Architects magazine “Magyar Épitömüvészet,” a researcher at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich, and a guest professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts). He has published in the Swiss architectural magazine Werk, Bauen + Wohnen and is part of the editorial board of the magazine tec21.

Andrea Deplazes is an award-winning architect, professor of architecture and construction at ETH Zurich, and the author of the recognized "bible" for architects on building construction (Architektur konstruieren. Vom Rohmaterial zum Bauwerk. Ein Handbuch). In 1988, he obtained his degree from the prestigious ETH Zurich and, in the same year, co-founded his own architectural studio, Bearth & Deplazes, with Valentin Bearth. For Deplazes, architecture is an interplay of planning and practice; it should be free from dogmas and individual handwriting, and he sees it as a series of possibilities and challenges. Together with his students, he designed the Monte Rosa hut in the Swiss Alps – a unique center for technological innovation and a refuge for climbers in one. The building, nicknamed the "mountain crystal," is located at an altitude of 2883 meters. It is not accessible by car or cable car, so it can only be seen by the most dedicated fans of contemporary architecture. Deplazes is known for his unconventional house designs using various materials, from wooden structures to concrete new builds. He spoke at Kruh in 2014 along with colleague Joseph Schwartz.
The lecture will be in English.

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