HUNGARIAN CUBES / SUBVERSIVE ORNAMENTS IN SOCIALISM

The Magyar Kocka, or Hungarian Cube, is a standardized type of residential house in Hungary that dates back to the 1920s. It was d esigned as a radically functional single-family home for Budapests suburbs and housing projects, but it became closely identified w ith the postwar communist era, when many villages were rebuilt with uniform rows of single-family homes, and the Hungarian Cubeofte n renamed the Kádár Kocka, after Hungarys communist president, János Kádárbecame ubiquitous.In Hungarian Cubes, German-Hungarian artist Katharin...[Llegir més]