Workshop on the Community Research of the Demolished "A" Building
The disappearance of Building “A” of the Buda Castle is more than just the demolition of a structure. With it, a key site of our profession has also vanished. The various institutions that operated within it reflected the overlapping political, cultural, and institutional changes of successive eras. Many of us feel that this cannot simply disappear without a trace. While numerous writings on architectural history and heritage documentation have been produced about the building, the accumulated museum practices, experiences, and personal narratives within its walls remain largely unexplored.
Our unconventional research seeks to reveal the symbolic significance of the building by drawing on personal memories, private photographs and documents, subjectively experienced events, and curatorial work. At the heart of the project lies the question of how the cultural and professional importance of a physically vanished building can be preserved, and how the past—specifically a fifty-year chapter (1974–2024)—is transformed into memory.
The workshop will explore the methodological aspects of this community research through open brainstorming, shared reflection, and collaborative thinking—marking the first steps toward building an archive.
Workshop leaders: Anna Sidó, Eszter Földi, Enikő Róka
