Regina Balla PhD candidate M.Sc. Architecture Budapest University of Technology and Economics Csonka Pál Doctorand School / 2016
My name is Regina Balla, I am in the fourth semester of my architecture PhD at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and my research focuses on urban planning and development. I graduated from the BME in 2016. During my M.Sc. studies I worked as a junior architect in different architectural offices and thanks to international scholarships I spent some months in an architecture studio in Madrid, Ruiz-Larrea & Asociados. Since 2013 I have participated in various scientific student conferences and competitions, where my returning topic was the architecture of prefabricated housing blocks. Accordingly in my PhD I examine the sustainability of urban blocks, especially prefabricated mass housing estates, a very problematic and wide-spread topic across Eastern Europe. I am interested in the possibilities of balancing sustainability and the quality of life, and, if it exists, how urban planning can help to merge these issues for a likable future city. These issues are much more relevant in the post-war urban heritage which is in bad condition and has uncertain perspectives for rehabilitation. I am also acting in other areas related to sustainable development, at the present I’m working for a EU-funded project for a transnational community development across the Danube and I teach at the Technical University in the field of housing developments in future cities.
National Scientific Student Conference - Urbanism Ground floor of block of flats - Special Award
2014
2013
17ème rencontres du Réseau des écoles d’architecture françaises d’Europe centrale et orientale (RéA) - Budapest,Hungary/Grenoble,France - Pongrátz Gergely Square, Revitalization of block of flats - national I. Prize - international III. Prize
2015
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Scientific Student Conference-BUTE (BME)- Urbanism - Ground floor of block of flats - I. Prize
2016
Budapest University of Technology and Economics Field Of Study / Master of Science (M.Sc.), Architecture and Civil Engineering GRADUATION
2015
Quantity surveyor Company / ELŐ-SZER Kft. Dates Employed / Jul 2015 – Aug 2016 Employment Duration / 1 yr 2 mos Location / Hungary, Kiskunfélegyháza
BME Csonka Pál Doktoral School, Faculty of Architecture Field Of Study / Sustainability and urban forms State Scholarship Dates attended or expected graduation / 2016 – 2020 Department of Urban Planning and Design
2016
2014
Trainee Company Name / Ruiz-Larrea & Asociados Dates Employed / Jun 2014 – Sep 2014 Employment Duration / 4 mos Location / Madrid, Spain Erasmus Practise
2017
Communication Manager at DANUrB Project Company Name / Department of Urban Planning and Design, Budapest University of Technology and Economics Dates Employed / Jan 2017 – Present Location / Budapest, Hungary
2018
Campus Mundi Short Study Trip Scholarship Delft University of Technology Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment March 2018 Location / Delft, Netherlands
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