Péter Pozsár
Born in 1977, Csongrád. Exported as teacher and co-founder of Hello Wood.* Currently Head of Classic School, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. *Co-founders: András Huszár, Dávid Ráday and Maxim Bakos
A lot of things have lost their original meaning by today. Things that have for generations guided or framed what we called or believed to be knowledge have emptied, dissolved, weakened or become detested. Finding one’s bearings, starting out in any direction, has never been more difficult to accomplish than it is today. I imagine that today it is not enough to draw on the map whether we want to follow the usual path or, on the contrary, discover new routes. Today we must also draw the map ourselves, with our own coordinate system, proportions, directions, internal laws, colours and shapes. It is a difficult task of incomprehensible proportions, with opportunities and responsibilities of similar scale. Sine veritate non est scientia – without truth there is no knowledge. And what will the new world be like? That depends on the principles on which you reframe it. – Péter Pozsár
Manifesto ↓
Architectural education is about learning to make decisions and developing one’s own learning pathways. I think architecture is closer to psychology than to engineering.
Career path ↓
Péter Pozsár started teaching at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in 2010, where he spent the semester preparing for the Danish Wood Festival architecture camp with his students. However, the Danish programme was cancelled, and to make up for it, the first Hungarian Hello Wood camp was organised in Csongrád. Péter – co-founder of Hello Wood – saw building as a special and informal element of educational activity, and he and his peers saw huge potential in the camp. In 2011, after a great deal of preparation, they held the next camp in Csóromfölde (their headquarters), which was the most memorable event of the series recurring for eleven summers. By 2013, the camp was advertised for foreign and Hungarian students in an English open call, with 500 applicants competing for the 80 places, archdaily broadcasting live from the site, which generated so much interest in the following year’s camp that the participants had to be selected by a jury. The camp also attracted students and faculty members from world-class universities, such as Columbia and Harvard, which resulted in two things: the Hello Wood camp became a professionally known and acknowledged meeting point, and that year there was not enough room for Hungarian students due to the excessive number of international applications, so the Hello Wood Építész Mustra – The Hungarian Gathering series was launched exclusively for them. Over the years, ten Hungarian universities were represented at various locations, where students and teachers were able to do creative work in an informal setting in the spirit of community building. By 2015, Hello Wood had become a consciously developed business enterprise, with the team winning one award after the other. Péter considers the enthusiasm of the students, the countless personal connections and the alumni as the key factors of its success. What makes the camps special is that they are not traditional architecture projects, but rather workshops for education, community building and personal development. According to Péter, architecture is closer to psychology than to engineering. Péter was a member of Hello Wood until 2022. In his work he is primarily concerned with the human psychological aspects of architecture. He is currently a lecturer at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, and his most important fulfilled professional vision is the Hello Wood camp series, which he and his colleagues created together, and from which he has benefited a lot and is still drawing on in his current work.
Péter Pozsár
Born in 1977, Csongrád. Exported as teacher and co-founder of Hello Wood.* Currently Head of Classic School, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. *Co-founders: András Huszár, Dávid Ráday and Maxim Bakos
A lot of things have lost their original meaning by today. Things that have for generations guided or framed what we called or believed to be knowledge have emptied, dissolved, weakened or become detested. Finding one’s bearings, starting out in any direction, has never been more difficult to accomplish than it is today. I imagine that today it is not enough to draw on the map whether we want to follow the usual path or, on the contrary, discover new routes. Today we must also draw the map ourselves, with our own coordinate system, proportions, directions, internal laws, colours and shapes. It is a difficult task of incomprehensible proportions, with opportunities and responsibilities of similar scale. Sine veritate non est scientia – without truth there is no knowledge. And what will the new world be like? That depends on the principles on which you reframe it. – Péter Pozsár
Manifesto ↓
Architectural education is about learning to make decisions and developing one’s own learning pathways. I think architecture is closer to psychology than to engineering.
Career path ↓
Péter Pozsár started teaching at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in 2010, where he spent the semester preparing for the Danish Wood Festival architecture camp with his students. However, the Danish programme was cancelled, and to make up for it, the first Hungarian Hello Wood camp was organised in Csongrád. Péter – co-founder of Hello Wood – saw building as a special and informal element of educational activity, and he and his peers saw huge potential in the camp. In 2011, after a great deal of preparation, they held the next camp in Csóromfölde (their headquarters), which was the most memorable event of the series recurring for eleven summers. By 2013, the camp was advertised for foreign and Hungarian students in an English open call, with 500 applicants competing for the 80 places, archdaily broadcasting live from the site, which generated so much interest in the following year’s camp that the participants had to be selected by a jury. The camp also attracted students and faculty members from world-class universities, such as Columbia and Harvard, which resulted in two things: the Hello Wood camp became a professionally known and acknowledged meeting point, and that year there was not enough room for Hungarian students due to the excessive number of international applications, so the Hello Wood Építész Mustra – The Hungarian Gathering series was launched exclusively for them. Over the years, ten Hungarian universities were represented at various locations, where students and teachers were able to do creative work in an informal setting in the spirit of community building. By 2015, Hello Wood had become a consciously developed business enterprise, with the team winning one award after the other. Péter considers the enthusiasm of the students, the countless personal connections and the alumni as the key factors of its success. What makes the camps special is that they are not traditional architecture projects, but rather workshops for education, community building and personal development. According to Péter, architecture is closer to psychology than to engineering. Péter was a member of Hello Wood until 2022. In his work he is primarily concerned with the human psychological aspects of architecture. He is currently a lecturer at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, and his most important fulfilled professional vision is the Hello Wood camp series, which he and his colleagues created together, and from which he has benefited a lot and is still drawing on in his current work.
Péter Pozsár
Born in 1977, Csongrád. Exported as teacher and co-founder of Hello Wood.* Currently Head of Classic School, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. *Co-founders: András Huszár, Dávid Ráday and Maxim Bakos
A lot of things have lost their original meaning by today. Things that have for generations guided or framed what we called or believed to be knowledge have emptied, dissolved, weakened or become detested. Finding one’s bearings, starting out in any direction, has never been more difficult to accomplish than it is today. I imagine that today it is not enough to draw on the map whether we want to follow the usual path or, on the contrary, discover new routes. Today we must also draw the map ourselves, with our own coordinate system, proportions, directions, internal laws, colours and shapes. It is a difficult task of incomprehensible proportions, with opportunities and responsibilities of similar scale. Sine veritate non est scientia – without truth there is no knowledge. And what will the new world be like? That depends on the principles on which you reframe it. – Péter Pozsár
Manifesto ↓
Architectural education is about learning to make decisions and developing one’s own learning pathways. I think architecture is closer to psychology than to engineering.
Career path ↓
Péter Pozsár started teaching at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in 2010, where he spent the semester preparing for the Danish Wood Festival architecture camp with his students. However, the Danish programme was cancelled, and to make up for it, the first Hungarian Hello Wood camp was organised in Csongrád. Péter – co-founder of Hello Wood – saw building as a special and informal element of educational activity, and he and his peers saw huge potential in the camp. In 2011, after a great deal of preparation, they held the next camp in Csóromfölde (their headquarters), which was the most memorable event of the series recurring for eleven summers. By 2013, the camp was advertised for foreign and Hungarian students in an English open call, with 500 applicants competing for the 80 places, archdaily broadcasting live from the site, which generated so much interest in the following year’s camp that the participants had to be selected by a jury. The camp also attracted students and faculty members from world-class universities, such as Columbia and Harvard, which resulted in two things: the Hello Wood camp became a professionally known and acknowledged meeting point, and that year there was not enough room for Hungarian students due to the excessive number of international applications, so the Hello Wood Építész Mustra – The Hungarian Gathering series was launched exclusively for them. Over the years, ten Hungarian universities were represented at various locations, where students and teachers were able to do creative work in an informal setting in the spirit of community building. By 2015, Hello Wood had become a consciously developed business enterprise, with the team winning one award after the other. Péter considers the enthusiasm of the students, the countless personal connections and the alumni as the key factors of its success. What makes the camps special is that they are not traditional architecture projects, but rather workshops for education, community building and personal development. According to Péter, architecture is closer to psychology than to engineering. Péter was a member of Hello Wood until 2022. In his work he is primarily concerned with the human psychological aspects of architecture. He is currently a lecturer at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, and his most important fulfilled professional vision is the Hello Wood camp series, which he and his colleagues created together, and from which he has benefited a lot and is still drawing on in his current work.
Péter Pozsár
Born in 1977, Csongrád. Exported as teacher and co-founder of Hello Wood.* Currently Head of Classic School, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. *Co-founders: András Huszár, Dávid Ráday and Maxim Bakos
A lot of things have lost their original meaning by today. Things that have for generations guided or framed what we called or believed to be knowledge have emptied, dissolved, weakened or become detested. Finding one’s bearings, starting out in any direction, has never been more difficult to accomplish than it is today. I imagine that today it is not enough to draw on the map whether we want to follow the usual path or, on the contrary, discover new routes. Today we must also draw the map ourselves, with our own coordinate system, proportions, directions, internal laws, colours and shapes. It is a difficult task of incomprehensible proportions, with opportunities and responsibilities of similar scale. Sine veritate non est scientia – without truth there is no knowledge. And what will the new world be like? That depends on the principles on which you reframe it. – Péter Pozsár
Manifesto ↓
Architectural education is about learning to make decisions and developing one’s own learning pathways. I think architecture is closer to psychology than to engineering.
Career path ↓
Péter Pozsár started teaching at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in 2010, where he spent the semester preparing for the Danish Wood Festival architecture camp with his students. However, the Danish programme was cancelled, and to make up for it, the first Hungarian Hello Wood camp was organised in Csongrád. Péter – co-founder of Hello Wood – saw building as a special and informal element of educational activity, and he and his peers saw huge potential in the camp. In 2011, after a great deal of preparation, they held the next camp in Csóromfölde (their headquarters), which was the most memorable event of the series recurring for eleven summers. By 2013, the camp was advertised for foreign and Hungarian students in an English open call, with 500 applicants competing for the 80 places, archdaily broadcasting live from the site, which generated so much interest in the following year’s camp that the participants had to be selected by a jury. The camp also attracted students and faculty members from world-class universities, such as Columbia and Harvard, which resulted in two things: the Hello Wood camp became a professionally known and acknowledged meeting point, and that year there was not enough room for Hungarian students due to the excessive number of international applications, so the Hello Wood Építész Mustra – The Hungarian Gathering series was launched exclusively for them. Over the years, ten Hungarian universities were represented at various locations, where students and teachers were able to do creative work in an informal setting in the spirit of community building. By 2015, Hello Wood had become a consciously developed business enterprise, with the team winning one award after the other. Péter considers the enthusiasm of the students, the countless personal connections and the alumni as the key factors of its success. What makes the camps special is that they are not traditional architecture projects, but rather workshops for education, community building and personal development. According to Péter, architecture is closer to psychology than to engineering. Péter was a member of Hello Wood until 2022. In his work he is primarily concerned with the human psychological aspects of architecture. He is currently a lecturer at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, and his most important fulfilled professional vision is the Hello Wood camp series, which he and his colleagues created together, and from which he has benefited a lot and is still drawing on in his current work.
Péter Pozsár
Born in 1977, Csongrád. Exported as teacher and co-founder of Hello Wood.* Currently Head of Classic School, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. *Co-founders: András Huszár, Dávid Ráday and Maxim Bakos
A lot of things have lost their original meaning by today. Things that have for generations guided or framed what we called or believed to be knowledge have emptied, dissolved, weakened or become detested. Finding one’s bearings, starting out in any direction, has never been more difficult to accomplish than it is today. I imagine that today it is not enough to draw on the map whether we want to follow the usual path or, on the contrary, discover new routes. Today we must also draw the map ourselves, with our own coordinate system, proportions, directions, internal laws, colours and shapes. It is a difficult task of incomprehensible proportions, with opportunities and responsibilities of similar scale. Sine veritate non est scientia – without truth there is no knowledge. And what will the new world be like? That depends on the principles on which you reframe it. – Péter Pozsár
Manifesto ↓
Architectural education is about learning to make decisions and developing one’s own learning pathways. I think architecture is closer to psychology than to engineering.
Career path ↓
Péter Pozsár started teaching at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in 2010, where he spent the semester preparing for the Danish Wood Festival architecture camp with his students. However, the Danish programme was cancelled, and to make up for it, the first Hungarian Hello Wood camp was organised in Csongrád. Péter – co-founder of Hello Wood – saw building as a special and informal element of educational activity, and he and his peers saw huge potential in the camp. In 2011, after a great deal of preparation, they held the next camp in Csóromfölde (their headquarters), which was the most memorable event of the series recurring for eleven summers. By 2013, the camp was advertised for foreign and Hungarian students in an English open call, with 500 applicants competing for the 80 places, archdaily broadcasting live from the site, which generated so much interest in the following year’s camp that the participants had to be selected by a jury. The camp also attracted students and faculty members from world-class universities, such as Columbia and Harvard, which resulted in two things: the Hello Wood camp became a professionally known and acknowledged meeting point, and that year there was not enough room for Hungarian students due to the excessive number of international applications, so the Hello Wood Építész Mustra – The Hungarian Gathering series was launched exclusively for them. Over the years, ten Hungarian universities were represented at various locations, where students and teachers were able to do creative work in an informal setting in the spirit of community building. By 2015, Hello Wood had become a consciously developed business enterprise, with the team winning one award after the other. Péter considers the enthusiasm of the students, the countless personal connections and the alumni as the key factors of its success. What makes the camps special is that they are not traditional architecture projects, but rather workshops for education, community building and personal development. According to Péter, architecture is closer to psychology than to engineering. Péter was a member of Hello Wood until 2022. In his work he is primarily concerned with the human psychological aspects of architecture. He is currently a lecturer at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, and his most important fulfilled professional vision is the Hello Wood camp series, which he and his colleagues created together, and from which he has benefited a lot and is still drawing on in his current work.