F. Mentényi Klára szerk.: Műemlékvédelmi Szemle 2000/1-2. szám Az Országos Műemléki Felügyelőség tájékoztatója (Budapest, 2000)
KIÁLLÍTÁS - Ritoók Pál: „Ha a ma lesz a holnap tegnapja”. A műemlékvédelem táguló körei. Az Országos Műemlékvédelmi Hivatal kiállítása
The exhibition was based on the groups of building-types and tried to show a few examples in all groups. The sub-titles were the following: Cemetery art, Churches, Industrial buildings, Traffic, Mountains and tourism, The monuments of Danube and holiday resorts, Lake Balaton development program, Public buildings, Housing and workers'estates, Building of vacant sites in Budapest, New city centres, Studios, Elementary and secondary schools, Universities. Several documents could be exhibited as a result of the donations of the architects of their heirs.The material displayed contained photos showing the present state of the buildings, plans, graphic works, post cards from the Museum of Architecture, achive photos came from the Photoarchive of the OMVH. This means that works even from the fifties have a value of a work of art by now. For the first time in the history of Hungarian architectural historical exhibitions an architect (Győző Bujdosó) was also member of the group of experts making the visual plan. Installations were easy and elegant, although certain parts were borrowed from pop culture. In the central show-case the view of buildings appeared which were considered worth protection, and they were not on the display. The catalogue planned by László Kalocsai was a good example from the point of typography and content as well of outstanding expert's work. The introduction of Pál Lővei informs us why the expert of sepulchral monuments began to deal with the architecture of the near past. It is summing up the protection of 20 th century monuments from the seventies till today. It is putting into words the questions and tasks. In the case of monuments of the past the value of them helps us, but about modern buildings it is not so easy to decide whether they are worth protection. The opinion of András Ferkai, author of the study is very similar. He brings examples of the danger of privatisation, a newer architect, money or in some cases even the architect himself to the buildings. That is the reason why the work of the monument protection expert is important: to show values, documents and draw the attention to them, to make possible systematic monument protection in the case of modern works. The descriptions of the buildings are excellent and the sixteen author understood clearly the monuments, giving fine essays. The catalogue was planned for the experts, so it can be understood that it is full of technical terms. It is interesting however, that getting nearer to our age it is getting more and more difficult to name things. The photographs of the catalogue are not always of the same high level, it would be worth publishing a popularizing album as well. The final part is a list of buildings proposed for protection; the time of planning was closed with 1975. At the beginning of the list a group of interesting works can be found, with buildings among them, that have been pulled down since then.
