Publications

Who said design & build studios can’t publish books? Over the years we have published several books that are commercially available. These publications cover several topics: the first 5 years of our architectural practice (Hello Wood 1-5); socially engaged architecture (Builders); making an internationally acclaimed architecture summer school (Children of the Wood); subjective thoughts on the work and related fields of Imre Makovecz (Szubjektív Makovecz Jegyzetek). Our aim has always been to spread the knowledge we have accumulated since Hello Wood was estabilished. We couldn’t have done it without the help of our friends, and our team who have contributed in meaningful and different ways to these publications. Check out our work and if you like it go ahead and order it.

Hello Wood 1-5

The Hello Wood 1-5 book is a subjective summary of the first five years’ of Hello Wood. Besides the installations and constructions, it presents the phenomena and processes that have shaped the character, scale, goals and methods of Hello Wood camp in the past, and today. This book may be best described as a reversed travelogue, where the subject is permanent and the travelers vary as they come and go. The professionals, architects, philosophers, and designers who gave their words to this book all have different perspectives from where they see and react to Hello Wood. While these writings give a colorful collection of thoughts, they are nevertheless connected by personal presence, involvement and shared experience.

Builders

What is socially engaged architecture? No matter how we try to describe it or emphasize it, the point is: Building is an activity, strongly connected to creating. We build and construct, not only with our hands, but also with our words. One way or the other, we create something every single day, but what do we actually build for others with a socially engaged attitude? Hello Wood’s second book is named Builders. The book is presenting projects of Hungarian architecture with a focus on social engagement from the 21st century. It involves projects concerned with shared and social responsibility, and defines the importance of the fact that it is good to build, it is important to build, building means looking forward.

Children of the Wood

The new Hello Wood book, Children of the Wood is an unusual publication, hard to categorise by genre but strongly defined by its community character, is a fragmented narrative of HW building camps. The text is a collective memoir – written by Hello Wood participants and organisers – which conveys an intense feeling of presence by divided into chapters based on the camp’s strict daily schedule. This structure makes it possible to record all the utopian ideas behind the summer university: the forces awaken by physical activity, the empathy, the community experience and the natural environment as a construction site and a place to learn. Where building is the tool of perception. Into this book, we have compiled the experiences, impressions and thoughts of 1,020 participants in eight camps across 64 days in an imagined 24 hours, or 1,440 minutes, of a single day from sunrise to sunset at Hello Wood.

Subjective Makovecz Notes

Teaching aids The Subjective Makovecz Notes are the teaching aids of our Architect Mustra architecture camp. The publication was supported by the Imre Makovecz Foundation. Shopping The book is available for purchase in Libri bookshops and the Writers’ Shop; and can be ordered from Libri, Bookline and Anima online bookshops. Imre Makovecz is undoubtedly the best documented Hungarian architect today, known both abroad and at home, whose oeuvre has both enriched and polarized the Hungarian architectural community. If we try to see the last hundred years, the period since the loss of the country at Trianon, as a cultural paradigm, all these images are organised around two works, Béla Bartók and Imre Makovecz.