A Review Essay on the Exhibit Devade: Prague’s Architecture Amidst Austerity and Disco Center for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning, Prague29 January – 17 May 2026 For all its contributions and provocations, the exhibit Devade: Prague’s Architecture Amidst Austerity and Disco might appear most interesting at the moment when the visitor leaves it. Not, of course,…
The Danube Ever larger, the crowd continues toward the next intersection: Astoria, from the 1914-vintage hotel at the corner, evoking its atmosphere of luxury through the name of the then-legendary American oligarch and beaver-slaughterer. Here is the first change: the next section of the Inner Boulevard is blocked; we will now be turning right to…
The Start. 14:00, in the tunnels of the Budapest metro system at Deák Ferenc tér, the central intersection of three lines. A few first sightings of rainbow garb or décor among the crowd, passing around the ticket inspectors with their rather disturbingly fascistic-looking armbands. Up at street level. The square has far less of…
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