17 June 2025 – Enthusiastically, last Friday twelve students from the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture presented their analyses of the Budapest Pawlatsche. This variant of the residential palazzo was the defining building block of speculative nineteenth-century urban expansion in cities such as Budapest, but also Vienna.

After intensive fieldwork in Budapest, the students each made an openwork isometric drawing and a detailed coloured bay study of a Pawlatsche. They then used the isometric drawings and bay studies to design a contemporary variant for various locations in Budapest.

The results of this work are available as a pdf. With gratitude to the students:

Mohammed Tarek
Bas Beltman
Ilse van de Groes
Jeanine van Steenselen
Gijs Romijn
Kas Rozendaal
Sandro Setola
Adriaan Kadijk
Demi van Diest
Anika de Croon
Matthijs Buysse
Bilal Berkane

and:

Like Bijlsma
Endry van Velzen
Lukas Imhof
Timothy Smith
Paul Vermeulen
Margit van Schaik
Job Floris

and:

Theo van de Beek (teaching analysis)
Harmen van der Wilt (teaching digital communication)