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a body of work in which architecture, design, exhibitions and especulation converge, and share the same research process. 



Announcements  

2025_CINTAS Foundation Fellowship Finalist in Architecture & Design.

2025_Founder & Editor PFAALL Foundation Magazine (17/11/25-present)

2025_Exhibition “The Text Space”, Isle of Youth, Cuba. 

2024_3rd prize in an open competition organized by the Municipality of Újbuda in Budapest for the design of the Mari Törőcsik Memorial. 

2024_Tutor, Echo Academies Project, Open call for Creatives, Budapest, Hungary.
 
2024_Guest contributor, 7th International Architectural Model Festival, Budapest, Hungary.

2024_Aradi, work exhibited at the 7th International Architectural Model Festival, Budapest.

2024_MŰCSARNOK, work exhibited at the 3rd National Salon of Architecture, Budapest
2024_4 Houses, work exhibited at BitAC Cuba, La Habana.

2023_Curator, exhibition “Cuban Architectures, the Third Space”, at OSA, CEU, Budapest, Hungary.

2023_work exhibited at the Salone del Mobile, Milano.

2023_Jury, Echo Academies Project, Open call for Creatives, Budapest, Hungary.

2022_Jury, International Architecture Competition, Terraviva: The Cuban Square.

2022_Moon Gallery, selected among 64 art pieces sent to the ISS

2021_The hidden nature of objects, work exhibited at ART the Hague, Den Haag, Netherlands. 

2021_Jury, International Architecture Competition, The Challenge Latinoamérica.

2019_Finalist, "Sprouting Minds" Competition. Redesigning Isola Pepe Verde’s garden in Milano, Italia.

2018_Finalist, International design competition: National Memorial to the Heavenly Hundred Heroes and revolution of dignity Museum, “Maidan Dignity museum’, Kyiv. 

2018_work exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Unfolding Pavilion, Venezia. 

2017_De Rerum Natura, work exhibited at , Galería LARVA, Guadalajara, Mexico.

2017_Contre-Jour, work exhibited at Dedar Flagship Showroom, Milano. 

2016_Re-Drawing the Theory, work exhibited at Villa Merta Masolo, Milano.

2016_30under30, work exhibited at Tulpemnamie Gallery, Milan Fashion Week, Milano.

2016_Finalist, CTBUH Competition, "Mantova Performing Arts Center", Shenzhen, China. 







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LIST OF PROJECTS



NON-SIGN SITE

La Habana, Cuba, 2021.

The project creates a framework by finding, within the local context, structures of signification to be re-utilised (copied) in the new area.
Meaning is explored in La Plaza Vieja, the first civic space in the country. The outcome is a comprehensive “system of significant objects”, a sign. This sign is projected onto the new public space in a sort of “non-site operation.”

The project is therefore a blank canvas, a text in which the layer of signification generates a setting whose ultimate goal is to fulfil any program or interpretation. It welcomes the hotel program now appearing in the city and situates it within a wider narrative in which the social, the economic, and the foreign have equal value.

Every sign has two objects: a dynamic object and an immediate object. The dynamic object determines the sign and the interpretant, and is concerned with the history and evolution of the place; it is therefore only partially revealed. This partial revelation of the sign occurs through the immediate object, which is “the object as the sign represents it.”

While the dynamic object exists in the textuality of the place, the immediate object lies in the object-in-itself, the drawings, the plans, and the building. Because of this separation, the interpretant of the sign — society, must also be addressed in a split way.





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