Budapest, 27 September 2024. From 27 September, the 7th International Architectural Model Festival will be open in Budapest for a month, showcasing more than 260 models by creators from ten countries. The exhibitors include established architects, students, children and amateur modellers. In the spirit of the motto "learning by doing", the exhibition is all about what we can learn from making models.

The first Architectural Model Festival was organised by the Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre (KÉK) in 2008. Since then, the internationally unique initiative has been held in many venues; this year's seventh edition is co-organised by KÉK and the Hungarian Architecture Museum and Monument Protection Documentation Center (MÉM MDK) in the Museum's exhibition space, the Workshop Space at the Walter Rózsi Villa.

"The architectural model is a tool for communication and learning, a channel for the transmission of ideas. Whether it is a dialogue between architect and client, the expression of a student's intentions to an instructor, a child's desire to build or an amateur model maker's passion for architectural beauty, the creation and reception of a model is never one-way," reads the introduction to the exhibition.

Exhibitors at the 7th Festival include architects, students and creators from the Czech Republic, Croatia, Germany, Austria, Portugal, Romania, Switzerland, Slovenia, Slovakia and Hungary.

At the opening ceremony held on 26 September 2024, Dr. Kornél Almássy, Director, and Pál Ritoók, Head of the Museum Department on behalf of the MÉM MDK, and Samu Szemerey, Director of Content at KÉK welcomed guests. The exhibition was opened by Dr. Viktória Sugár, Director of the Department of Architecture at the Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture, Óbuda University, and Zoltán Neville, architect-partner at Coldefy and lecturer at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design.

The Model Festival can be visited free of charge with a registration ticket available at the adjacent Walter Rózsi Villa until 27 October, Wednesday to Sunday, from 10am to 6 pm at the MÉM MDK Workshop Space (VII. Budapest, Bajza utca 10.).