Disclosing the Value of Makovecz’s Work. - The Value of the Contribution of Architecture to Cohesion and Social Engagement

Abstract

Over the past 10 years, I’ve been in contact with Imre Makovecz’s architecture, both practicing at firms connected to his studio Makona, such as Triskell and Axis and carrying on research activities on his thought and oeuvre as architect and public personality. Furthermore, it was through a direct observation and a direct contact with local communities living in villages where, during the last forty years, architectures designed by Imre Makovecz were established, that I could experience and verify the centrality of these buildings in community life. Such experiences and further considerations on the phenomenon which I observed, pushed me to continue the research on a more multidisciplinary level to be able to describe and represent the changes and values generated by the interventions of Makovecz and the governance of buildings on a more scientific basis, researching and implementing in the analysis of data collected the SROI methodology.