Prékopa Ágnes (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 29. (Budapest, 2013)

Imre TAKÁCS: The Upgrade Programme for the Budapest Museum of Applied Arts

19. Inner garden of the Museum of Applied Arts, visualisation plan, Vikár & Lukács Architects Studio Ltd., 2012-13

proportionately - more than fourfold. The exhibition spaces will take up three times more space than in the old museum, and the number of exhibited items will take a truly startling, fifteen fold jump. These bald figures, however, give no impression of the qualitative improvement and capacity increase that reconstruction will bring to the Museum of Applied Arts. It is clearly more

than a rescue refurbishment or an investment, and is at least as much about the creation of new value and the new realisation, or new emphasis of old value. We are not far from the vision of the 19lh-century humanistic thinkers, and close to the proposals for improving quality of life which leading designers of our own time have expressed in the Munich Design Charter.

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