Specific Architecture Rooted in thr Country. Survey on Vernacular Architecture and Tourism Development

Abstract

After the failed revolution in 1956 an intensive development began around the Lake Balaton in Hungary. It was a manifestation of political détente but was driven also by the economic interest, as an investment in tourism. The new regional plan included a survey on monuments, which was extended also on vernacular built heritage. The paper presents the findings of the survey and compares them with the planned and realised buildings, and with the architects' manifestations. The investigation includes public buildings which gave the bulk of building activity in the first period, but it analysis also the awardwinning designs of weekend houses submitted for a competition in 1958. The research concludes that while decades later some architects remembered this time as when 'the spirit of the vernacular was in the air' the buildings were not fully in tune with this statement, against the previously welldocumented built heritage. The duality of placeform and product-form that is of tradition and technology – or vernacular and modern – was interpreted by the majority of architects as either/ or problem. by the middle of the 1960s this battle ended with the victory of technology. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion