"What would the profession of architecture look like if, without sacrifice, the wall of the Master Manna's Master had stood?"

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arh.Szablonz GUTTMANN
recommends arh. MACALIK Arnold

"What would the architectural profession look like if,
without the sacrifice, the wall of the Master Mable would have stood?"

We sit down for tea, and in a second he tells me offhandedly: "In my childhood homes, the pantry was my favorite place. By the way, they led to the attic, where I also spent a lot of time. Do you remember - concentrated beams of light, contrasts, warmth or the sound of raindrops, peculiar smells and the ubiquitous dust film, hundreds of historical pictures of grandparents and syrupy chanson tunes from a tireless gramophone. An unreachable world because you were always tactilely separated from it by the dust film on your finger."

With no website and no business card, immersed in groups of architects with the most demanding approaches, present in contemporary local architecture with small or large-scale works, Macalik develops themes of media architecture, telecommunications, offices, sacral, sacred, housing, heritage restoration, urban rehabilitation. He is a "character" whose main challenge is the search and who, in turn, is searched by the most varied challenges. Lacking a mentor in his emergence, he remained self-taught through friends, DIY, reading, music and nature.

MACALIK Arnold (b. 1972) -details

1996 - Graduate of the Institute of Architecture "Ion Mincu" Bucharest - diploma under the guidance of Sanda Voiculescu
1996-2018 - Founding member and President of Amaryllis Association
Since 1999 - Associate of the architectural office Atelier FKM
2013 - founder atelier MOSSFERN - design office
2014 - director Arthoc

AWARDS
2007 - Arxitext Design Award - Headquarters, Pustiana
2009 - Third Prize - Competition Restoration, extension and remodeling "Gabroveni Inn".
Finalist - Competition Pedestrian Area, Eroilor Street, Unirii Square, Cluj - BNA
2012 - First Prize - Restoration of Alba Iulia Cathedral
BATRA 2013 - First Prize - Restoration and general rebuilding of the Black Eagle Ensemble, Oradea
BATRA 2013 - First Prize, Hajdo House - Odorheiu Secuiesc
BNA 2018 - First Prize, Rural Section - St. Ana Chapel - Siculeni
First Prize - International Urban Design Competition Kogălniceanu str. Kogălniceanu Cluj

WORK

Restoration of Ilia Castle - birth house of Prince Gabriel Bethlen
2000 - Buza Reformed Church
2003 - Research and Biological Observation Center, Senetea
2004 - Karolyi Castle Rehabilitation, Carei
2004-2007 - Restoration of St. Michael's Cathedral Alba Iulia
2004-2006 - Restoration at Pauline monastery Teiuș
2005 - Rehabilitation - Matei Corvin birth house - Cluj
2007 - Restoration - Roman-Catholic Episcopal Palace Alba Iulia
2010 - Sapientia University headquarters Cluj
2011-2013 - Rehabilitation of neo-Brenaissance building - Cluj
2011-2012 - Restoration of choir and sanctuary, St. Michael's Cathedral Alba Iulia
2011-2016 - Rehabilitation of the Black Eagle Palace, Oradea
2010 - Duna house rehabilitation - Rimetea
2010-2013 - DIGI Media Center - Bucharest, Bdul Panduri nr. 71
2010-2016 - Regional office buildings of the company rcs&rds
2015-2016 - Rehabilitation and restoration of Groszmann Palace - Arad
2016 - Banca Transilvania Headquarters - Cluj
2018 - Conversion of educational building - Siculeni Town Hall headquarters
2019 - Kogălnicanu urban development, intervention on 9 streets in the historical city center
2019 - Pauline monastery construction - Harghita Baths

He has the richest connections to the LOC through the bilingual character of the architectural workshops he participated in, through his children, through his heritage, responsibilities and visions. In the work of the groups of which he is a part, the living invoice of intrinsic nature, the angelic behavior of the environment, the poetics of the themes and objects addressed, all of which maintain a particular fever that always shows itself in the making.
"Is the act of creation one that shows itself outside the limits of earthly life?"
"Can this be the reason why all the truly touched are charmed for life?"
"If without sacrifice the wall of the Master Craftsman or the wall of Kőműves Kelemen had stood, then what would the profession of architecture look like today?"
These are just a few of the haunting themes of Macalik Arnold, the man who swings architecture in his soul by denying the existence of time and space.
His personality clearly illustrates that origins are defining and at the basis of our relationship to the creature (somewhat in the sense of liberation as well as in the sense of limitation of this relationship). In this sense I consider him a favored by fate, having benefited from an early age from the chance to assimilate both the rural and the urban environments and thus experiencing a richness of perceptions through which the whole world is reflected to him as a unitary whole. I hope that this state of being will remain with him throughout his development.

SUMMARY OF ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE, NR.2-3/2019
BNA 2018 600 For the Future