<kruh>autumn 2021: Ákos Moravánszky</kruh>

Permanent change is the only constant in life, claims Heraclitus, and today’s reality seems to confirm his vision of a world of continuous change. Architects, therefore, strive to distinguish between what appears permanent in their discipline and what is fleeting and ephemeral. But can we speak of metamorphosis as the “essence” of architecture? Can never-ending cycles of transformation ensure the renewal of architecture after recurring crises?

Ákos Moravánszky is a Hungarian architect, architectural historian, and titular professor of architectural theory at ETH Zurich. He studied architecture at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and art history and cultural heritage at the Technical University of Vienna. He is interested in the history of architecture in Eastern and Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. He engages in research and publishing activities. Among other roles, he was the editor-in-chief of the Hungarian Union of Architects magazine "Magyar Épitömüvészet," a research fellow at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich, and a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts). He has published in the Swiss architectural journal Werk, Bauen + Wohnen and serves on the editorial board of the journal tec21.