Name: EDGE Architecture Festival Budapest (EDGE Fest)
Start: Thu Jul 03 2025 08:30:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
End: Fri Jul 04 2025 23:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Location: Dürer Kert

CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Over the course of the conference the speakers will explore different aspects of ecological, social, economic, technological and aesthetic issues, while creating opportunities to highlight new ideas. Through the discussion of forward-looking plans, this intellectual discourse can be complemented by ideas and theories that can set the course for future generations. The aim of EDGE Fest is to provide a space for all ideas that move the professional audience out of their comfort zone, while at the same time exploring future perspectives. The conference program will be organized into the following sessions:

LABORATORY – 3 July 2025
Among the problems of our time, there are many that raise questions about architecture. The aim of this session is to explore those challenges that can be understood through architecture and addressed through its tools and methodologies. This session will feature presentations by architects and researchers who explore the challenges of the present and the future from an architectural perspective, in their ecological, social, political and economic contexts.

SPEAKERS:
Sam Jacob (Sam Jacob Studio, London, UK)
Jozef Olsavsky (FUTURESEARCH STUDIO, Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Tomaž Krištof (STUDIO KRIŠTOF, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Péter Hámori (GUBAHÁMORI, Budapest, Hungary)
Mihály András Németh (Art Historian, Vienna, Austria)
Javier Arpa Fernández (Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands)

AETHER – 3 July 2025
Digital culture is affecting the world of architecture. Technological changes are influencing both design and its context. In the Aether session, speakers will explore both the theoretical and practical implications of these changes.

SPEAKERS:
Marcos Cruz (UCL, London, UK)
Gilles Retsin (UCL AUAR Labs, London, UK)
Bence Pap (IoA, Vienna, Austria)
Vojtěch Radakulan (Artist, architect, game and graphic designer, Prague, Czech Republic)
Benjamin James (IoA, Vienna, Austria)
András Csiszér (ZDA, Budapest, Hungary)

LOOKING GOOD – 4 July 2025
The contemporary architectural style is changing. Exploring the aesthetic tendencies of our time is a very exciting task, which can be understood through the lectures of architects who, in addition to experimentation, are also concerned with theoretical approaches to formal frameworks. In this panel, architects will speak on the aesthetic issues of architecture in its relation to contemporary culture and design.

SPEAKERS:
Charles Holland (CHA, London, UK)
TEN (Zurich, Switzerland, Belgrade, Serbia)
Dávid Smiló (Paradigma Ariadné, Budapest, Hungary)
Konstantinos Pantazis (Point Supreme Architects, Athens, Greece)
Paolo Carpi (BAUKUH, Milan, Italy)

EDGE Architecture Festival Budapest (EDGE Fest)

Építészfórum Kft.

Early Bird Ticket / 3 July

Early Bird Ticket / 4 July

Early Bird Two-Day Pass / 3-4 July

Standard Ticket / 3 July

Standard Ticket / 4 July

Standard Two-Day Pass / 3-4 July

VIP Two-Day Pass / 3-4 July

Student Ticket / 3-4 July

Dürer Kert