The International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry-US

Special foci: 
FOLK ARCHITECTURE – VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE 
with an outlook to folk music and folk dance
TRADITIONS and RURAL DEVELOPMENT

June 8 (morning) – June 10 (early afternoon), 2012 
Budapest – Veszprém – Szentendre

SCHEDULE / VENUES:

JUNE 8 (Friday) – BUDAPEST, “Eötvös 10″ (culture center)
Address: 1067 Budapest, Eötvös Street 10
Photos: http://www.eotvos10.hu/gallery/7/eotvos10
Map: http://www.eotvos10.hu/kapcsolat

(1) International Conference on Folk Architecture – Vernacular Architecture 
(2) Conference and Discussion on Traditions and Rural Development
(3) Folk music / Bartók – Takács – Schulze (conference with music)
(4) Roundtable and exhibition “Forma”, which is also the title of a new journal of the Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Budapest
(5) Evening program: Schulze’s Indonesian Theater

JUNE 9 (Saturday) – VESZPRÉM (110 km from Budapest to the West)
Headquarter of the Hungarian Academy of Science (MTA)
Address: 8200 Veszprém, Vár Street /Castle Street/ 37
Photos: http://www.veab.mta.hu/
The brief history of the city:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veszprém

Conferences – continued

JUNE 10 (Sunday) – SZENTENDRE (20 km from Budapest to the North)
Open Air Ethnographic Museum (“Skanzen”)
http://skanzen.hu/index.php?fm=article&id=1

Excursion and mini-conference with the local specialists
(folk architecture, folk art, folk music).

GOALS of the conference are
- to exchange information in an international circle,
- to share ideas how to preserve the sites of folk / vernacular architecture, 
- to discuss how the related knowledge may help modern architecture in the 21st century.

We also hope to provide a regular (bi-annual?) forum in the future with the above goals.

FREE ADMISSION

HOTEL (for the entire period):

We negotiated a special price for the participants, close to an iconic boulevard in Budapest, a UNESCO World Heritage Site; see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrássy_út
There will be a bus for the trip of the 2nd and 3rd day.

FOR MORE INFORMATION
Please contact: Denes Nagy – email: denes.nagy@acu.edu.au

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