The Inner-City Passage System in Budapest and the Post-Socialist Transformation of the Cityscape: Three Projects in the Framework of Late-Socialist Phantasmagories

The paper investigates three projects of the Hungarian state design firm BUVÁTI: the Inner-City Shopping Centre, the Fontana department store and the Kígyó Passage, interpreting these works as mock-ups of capitalism, where a socialist society could practice and act out consumerism. Designed and built to converge towards a part-imagined West, these phantasmagorical visions of capitalism […]

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Architektúra & urbanizmus
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2025-07-25
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https://doi.org/10.31577/archandurb.2025.59.1-2.2
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Urbanization and City Planning
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The Inner-City Passage System in Budapest and the Post-Socialist Transformation of the Cityscape: Three Projects in the Framework of Late-Socialist Phantasmagories

Gyöngyvér R. Győrffy
Architektúra & urbanizmus
Urbanization and City Planning
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The Inner-City Passage System in Budapest and the Post-Socialist Transformation of the Cityscape: Three Projects in the Framework of Late-Socialist Phantasmagories

Gyöngyvér R. Győrffy
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Abstract

The paper investigates three projects of the Hungarian state design firm BUVÁTI: the Inner-City Shopping Centre, the Fontana department store and the Kígyó Passage, interpreting these works as mock-ups of capitalism, where a socialist society could practice and act out consumerism. Designed and built to converge towards a part-imagined West, these phantasmagorical visions of capitalism […]

Architektúra & urbanizmusVol. 59(1-2)
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The Inner-City Passage System in Budapest and the Post-Socialist Transformation of the Cityscape: Three Projects in the Framework of Late-Socialist Phantasmagories — Gyöngyvér R. Győrffy · Architektúra & urbanizmus (2025) | TGRS Research Map | TGRS