Many historical buildings lost their interior elements - including ceramic stoves and fireplaces - during the wars and political upheavals of the twentieth century. As a result, rehabilitation projects often lack the material evidence needed to understand the original spatial relationships and architectural intentions.
These projects investigate how paraphrasing historical architectural principles can reveal and reconnect those missing relationships. Rather than replicating lost objects, the ceramic interventions continue the architectural logic of a place, allowing its history to become legible once again.
Baroque, Paraphrased
History ↔ Architectural Language
Regenerating architectural heritage through paraphrase, allowing historical knowledge to continue as architectural language.
Fireplace: reconstruction of a Bauhaus villa
In a Bauhaus villa on Budapest’s Virányos Avenue stood a masonry stove, originally built in the 1930s, whose Zsolnay tiles were reused to create a mantel for a new fireplace.