Collective Building Camp in Visegrád

The his­to­ry of the Coll­ec­tive Buil­ding Camp in Vi­seg­rád began in 1981, when a hand­ful of enthu­sia­s­tic stu­dents of ar­chi­tec­tu­re from the Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­sity of Bu­da­pest went to Imre Ma­ko­vecz for ad­vi­ce, as­king him to help them bet­ter exp­lo­re the world of ar­chi­tec­tu­re in ad­di­ti­on to what they re­gar­ded as the rat­her dry cur­ri­cu­lum of the uni­ver­sity. Ma­ko­vecz en­co­u­rag­ed them to build som­eth­ing coll­ec­ti­vely and pla­ced an aban­don­ed strip pit ma­nag­ed by the Pilis Park Fo­restry Com­pany at their dis­pos­al. The buil­ding camp was given new im­pe­tus in 2014, when, thanks to the sup­port of the Local Govern­ment of Vi­seg­rád, the uni­ver­sity’s stu­dents of or­ga­nic ar­chi­tec­tu­re had the op­por­tunity to ex­pe­ri­en­ce the ori­gi­nal idea of coll­ec­tive buil­ding. Now the local govern­ment re­gu­larly draws up a de­sign pro­ject and each of the stu­dents make their respec­tive pro­jects. They jo­intly se­lect the win­ning de­sign and coll­ec­ti­vely imp­le­ment it as a clo­sing pro­ject of their two-se­mes­ter or­ga­nic ar­chi­tec­tu­re co­ur­se.