Balint Halasz

Architect. Interest in cities, design, politics. Retweets not necessarily endorsements.

[Balint Halasz @halbal5]

Heat map of 2 weeks bike commuting #cycletowork #Budapest

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What we often forget is the opportunity cost of meat based diets. And another interesting (debated?) point on extensive vs. intensive farming. https://t.co/qJt4xBYJMs

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Economic costs of further disintegration would be most probably incomparably higher than a no-deal #brexit

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EU’s primary goal in the negotiations is to prevent further disintegration, it’s clearly against its best interest to enter a ‘good deal’ for the UK. This would apply to any other member state. What a well documented, huge political mistake not to realise. https://t.co/Dlsa9XuzYo

[Balint Halasz @halbal5]

London subcultures

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10000 people out there to transform the city, well done #ibikebp #CriticalMass @lorena_ax

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An interesting Keller Easterling interview on the idea of Medium Design, on working with indeterminacy and on designing protocols of interplay rather than just objects https://t.co/kckn2Yy1YX

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On Soviet po-mo and Jorbusier https://t.co/6GaIR0rT5k #tbilisi

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Warsaw Radio Mast, built in 1974, collapsed in 1991

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Belgrade parasite

[Tom Dyckhoff @tomdyckhoff]

All the bits that make up an American prefab suburban house. Fabulous photo by Arnold Newman (1949).

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It might be time to put planners’ idle visionary capacity into action to make better places https://t.co/RUXmrBukzC via @PlacesJournal

[Balint Halasz @halbal5]

So, PM Orban is leading a xenophobic campain to win far right votes. Consequently Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein UN commissioner for human rights calls him xenophobic. Then, Orban’s foreign minister asks him to resign. Where’s the logic in this, shouldn’t he rather thank free publicity?

[Balint Halasz @halbal5]

@dragonofbudapes He has some good points!

[Failed Architecture @FailedArch]

“Modernism’s aesthetical ethos of saving, of an economic minimalism, now serves an entirely different purpose. It serves not the happy many, but the happy few. I don’t think anybody who practices modern architecture is even vaguely aware of this.” https://t.co/bBzsWDR0HV

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Good practice if we really need to build supermarkets https://t.co/3rVWQhMP25

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What happens in Eastern Europe when the municipality can access development funds only for investing in local tourism, but the residents actually need a new bus stop? The observation tower-bus stop!

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3) (d) turning into a charlatan by taking over other disciplines’ roles without the know-how; (e) retire; Any other idea?

[Balint Halasz @halbal5]

2) (b) staying marginal with involvement in grassroots/bottom-up initiatives that are hardly working above a certain project scale (c) unintentionally serving increasingly populist and unprofessional political agendas by getting involved in often corrupted government projects;

[Balint Halasz @halbal5]

1) Five possible paths for architects these days, none of them is appealing: (a) shaking off political responsibility with proclaiming the city ungovernable and taking a subordinate position to the client with accepting the logic of market economy