First Plan

The Contemporary Architecture Centre, at the request of the Hungarian National Museum, organised two evenings for the public discussion of the competition for the complex development of the main building of the Hungarian National Museum and its surroundings.

The focus of the first session was the competition process and the awarded designs, while the second dealt with the winning design and its further development possibilities and limitations. The approximately three-hour discussions on both occasions provided a thorough insight into the decision-making process, showing how, from a brief that was open-ended and offered sixty-three submissions with sixty-three different approaches, a result emerges from the diverse expectations, opinions, and interactions of many jury members, which remains at the expected minimum level.