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A Masquerade Ball Without Masks

Summary/Abstract: In the 1960s and ’70s, Imre Makovecz (1935–2011) began to create a new way of “living architecture”. Regarding the locations and materials, he started in the peripheries, a “zero point”, and planned a series of wayside inns and alpine huts in the form of the human face/head. Probing into the quintessence of architecture, he reduced it to the body and the soul, building upon the mental productions of man, i.e. language, imagination and thinking as the most authentic sources. His architectural conclusions arose from the ideas of Rudolf Steiner and became comparable with the problematic of Bachelard’s phenomenology. Analyzing and comparing the documents, works and words of Makovecz and their meaning with those of the philosophers, the author would like to prove that his buildings and performances were expressions of existence, a production of presence and reality.

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