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  • 2025 (75) Special Issue: Diploma 2025

    It is now hard to deny that our climate is changing rapidly. In summer in Hungary, life in urban areas is slowly becoming intolerable. What is the solution? Can we, as humans, react quickly and in time to the negative environmental challenges that we ourselves have created? When choosing a topic for their degree, students try to address the issues that are most relevant to them and of most interest to the wider public. What are the green solutions of future? What is the future of our cities, our landscapes, our urban landscapes? A majority of the student projects presented in the diploma issue focus on climate adaptation, increasing the intensity of green spaces and enhancing biodiversity, while others are working on solutions to social issues or technical innovation. The range of plans and dreams is diverse. Yet what are the key elements in which our students believe the solution lies?

  • 2024 (74)

  • 2024 (73)


    Sepial Issue: Based on 35th IFLA Europe Conference in Budapest, 17-20 October 2024.
    The 73rd issue of the 4D Journal of Landscape Architecture and Garden Art is a special issue in honour of the 35th IFLA Europe Conference in Budapest, 17-20 October 2024, and provides an insight into the 40 years of Hungarian landscape architecture between the IFLA Europe Conferences in Hungary, in Siófok in 1984 and Budapest in 2024. The special issue is structured in five major chapters, each of which has been coordinated by a colleague and compiled by several authors with expertise in each of the priority themes. As the length of the journal does not allow for a detailed and exhaustive coverage of each topic, the aim was to provide an overview of the most important changes and developments in planning, research, education and legislation over the last four decades, with a special chapter on volunteering, which also highlights the social significance of landscape architecture.

  • 2024 (72)

  • 2023 (71) Specia Issue: Diploma 2024

    This is the seventh time that the special issue on diploma projects of the 4D Journal of Landscape Architecture and Garden Art has been published, and the seventeenth time that the diploma exhibition at the MATE Institute of Land-scape Architecture, Urban Planning and Garden Art is organised. The main aim of both is to showcase to a wider audience the most important and complex work of recent graduates, thus providing greater publicity for both their professional skills and the quality of training at their alma mater. Last year, sixty students successfully defended their diploma theses in the three master's programmes run by the Institute (Master of Landscape Architecture, Master of Urban Planning, and Master of Landscape Architecture and Garden Art, which is in both English and Hungarian), and their work is featured in this issue of 4D Journal.

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  • 2023 (68) Supplement: 30 Years of Independent Landscape Architecture Instruction in Buda : Landscape Architecture the Profession of the Future

    The publication published for the 30th anniversary of landscape architecture education, the "landscape architecture faculty".

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  • 2023 (66) Specia Issue: Diploma 2023

    The Institute of Landscape Architecture, Urban Plan-ning and Garden Art at MATE University currently offers three master's degrees: a Master of Landscape Architec-ture, a Master of Urban Planning and a Master of Land-scape Architecture and Garden Art - the latter also in English. In the past year, exactly 50 students have suc-cessfully defended their theses in our programmes, and their work is featured in this issue of the 4D Journal of Landscape Architecture and Garden Art. Beyond the successful thesis defences now, reviewing the abstracts of the projects, we can see once again that our graduates in landscape architecture and urban plan-ning have found themselves through tasks as diverse and varied as the world around us. They are looking for 'real green' solutions to issues and problems that are central to all our lives - even if there may be many who do not formulate them for themselves. Climate change, digitali-sation, urbanisation, the protection of our natural and cul-tural heritage are perhaps the most important challenges of our time, both globally and locally.

  • 2022 (65)

  • 2022 (64) Special Issue: Mőcsényi Mihály Prize

    The 100th anniversary of Profes-sor Mőcsényi's birth was commemorated with the award named after him, an award that has become the highest recognition in the field. This special issue provides a cross-section of the activities and personalities of the laureates, highlighting the diversity of landscape architecture.      

  • 2022 (63) Special Issue

    A 4D Tájépítészeti és Kertművészeti Folyóirat e különszámával régi adósságot törlesztünk szakmánk kiválóságai felé. E jubileumi kiadványban gyűjtöttük össze és mutatjuk be vázlatosan azt a negyvenegy tájépítészmérnök kollégát, akik kiemelkedő szakmai eredményeik alapján Omos Imre Éremben részesültek az elmúlt 35 évben. Az Ormos Imre Érmet a Kertészeti és Élelmiszeripari Egyetem Tanácsa hozta létre 1988-ban, a Táj- és Kertépítészeti szak megalapításának 25. évfordulója alkalmából, hogy a táj- és kertépítészet szakterületén az oktatásban, a kutatásban vagy a szakmai gyakorlatban kiemel-kedő tevékenységet végző szakembereket kitüntesse.

     

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  • 2022 (61) Specia Issue: Diploma 2022

    A special feature of this year's issue of the 4D Journal of Landscape Architecture and Garden Art, dedicated to diploma works is that, in addition to the Master's degree thesis projects, it also includes the work of some of our BSc graduates in landscape management and garden construction who have achieved outstanding results at the December 2021 thesis defence. Regarding their content, this year's diploma projects will be of interest to both the professional and lay audience in Hungary. At the same time, they are also of international interest, since most of them are closely related to the main professional themes of the 2021 Conference of the IFLA Europe held in Granada: the research and development of healthy, liveable and both ecolog-ically and economically sustainable environment, and the methodology of designing inspiring landscapes and open spaces with artistic demands.

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  • 2021 (58) Special Issue: Diploma Thesis 2021

    Dear Reader, Dear Graduated Colleagues, We are in for an unusual presentation ofthesis projects. This year, the first timeever, we can not organise the conven-tional graduation ceremony and theaccompanying thesis exhibition. We mustaccept that we can not change the objec-tive circumstances, nevertheless our atti-tude towards the fact depends on us.The elaboration of the thesis project isa personal duty. And this personal perfor-mance has become even more importantin the past academic year. Earlier inusual circumstances the in-person assis-tance provided a greater role to thesupervisor, and more sense of securityand professional support for the candi-dates than this year. A proof of theirprofessional and personal aptitude isthis 58th issue of 4D Journal of Land-scape Architecture and Garden Artwherein, despite all the difficulties lastyear, the results of their hard work, dili-gence and creativity, the abstracts oftheir thesis projects have been publishedas a proof that they managed to preservetheir optimism and professional interestin these difficult times. This is theproper attitude that will be useful alsoin overcoming future difficulties.Although the thesis project isa personal duty, life is still a teamgame. And in this journey of ours, wemust go hand in hand together and,beyond the professional knowledge,be even more open to spiritu-ality and human interactions.In a spirit of optimism, let me assureYou that the graduation ceremonyand the Thesis 2021 exhibition are notcompletely cancelled, but postponed.Our determined purpose is to organiseboth as soon as the epidemic condi-tions would allow it. In the meantime,thesis projects will be available in thejournal for the academic staff, students,colleagues, ateliers, professional bodiesand all those who are interested.Congratulations to all the authors andtheir supervisors, and I wish the readeran entertaining time when readingthis issue of the 4D Journal of Land-scape Architecture and Garden Art.

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  • 2020 (54) Special issue: Diploma Thesis 2020

    Presentation of theses:
    • Tájépítészmérnöki mesterszak (MSc): Bakos Anikó, Bíró Borbála, Budafoki Dávid, Cseke Noémi, Enyedi-Kozma Ábel, Gunzinám Liza Regina, Huszkó Dorottya, Kalász Tünde, Keszthelyi Ákos, Komlósi Petra, Koppány Lili, Kutnyánszky Virág, Ludvigh Bertalan, Petelei-Ambrus Bíborka, Rózsa Anna, Varga Liza, Vida Bertalan, Vidák Beatrix, Vincze Viven
    • Településmérnöki mesterszak (MSc): Kardos Bálint Ferenc, Leel-Őssy Zsolt, Magyarosi Dóra, Orbán Cintia, Sugár Cindy, Sunkel Diána Alexandra
    • Tájépítészet és kertművészet mesterszak (MA): Bánhegyi Luca, Gimes Kinga, Gyurasza Miklós, Héjjas Luca Nóra, Juhász Rozália, Körtvélyesi Dóra, Lakatos Luca, Szalai Orsolya Zita, Varsányi Orsolya
    • Master of Arts in Landscape Architecture (MLA): Camila Andressa Pereira Rosa, Chaima Lahmar, Gentrit Krasniqi, Gödze Tetrik, Ingra De Macedo Arellano, Jorge Andrés Báez Rojas, Li Tianhao, Maisan Wannaus, Mateo Munoz Altamirano, Mohammad Al-Soub, Nabhani Ola, Nawarah Mazen Al Basha, Nebras Yassen Khadour, Obando Navas Veronica Carolina, Seloua Benkaid Kasbah, Shi Hao, Ulbala Akimkhan, Yang Yang

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  • 2019 (51) Special Issue: Diploma Thesis 2019

    The 2006 launch of 4D, the independent scientific periodical of the profession, provided and still provides a good opportunity for publishing research and project results of both the narrow and the wider profession. The 4D journal aimed at providing scope for the publication of the best thesis projects since the beginning, regarding both research oriented or landscape planning works and landscape design projects. Publication of the thesis projects in a single book was also urged by the students, so much that the first thesis booklet of the Faculty was edited by the actual graduates. The 4D has not only took care of this, but through the bilingual publication has also opened new dimensions for the fresh graduates. On behalf of the editorial board of the 4D journal, let me wish the young landscape architects and urban engineers a professionally challenging and successful career. 

  • 2018 (50)

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