Living Danube limes. Report on the progress of the Interreg DTP project "Living Danube Limes" and its activities in Hungary

The Department of History of Architecture and Monument Preservation of the Faculty of Architecture of Budapest University of Technology and Economics, which celebrated its 150th-anniversary last year, has always paid special attention to the teaching of the architecture of Antiquity. This stems not only from the fact that the Department of Ancient Architecture was one of the historical predecessors of the Department at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, when architectural education was based on historical periods but also from the fact that the Department’s staff still considers that architecture students shall graduate with a comprehensive theoretical and practical knowledge of the culture of Antiquity and ancient architecture. This principle was followed by Gyula Hajnóczi, a legendary professor of our department, who, with his qualifications as an archaeologist researcher and designer architect, formed a bridge between the disciplines of research and preservation of ancient buildings. Professor Hajnóczi, the centenary of whose birth was celebrated with an international online conference in 2020, highlighted the importance of education not only through theoretical lectures but also in fieldwork, with monument surveys and the practical fulfilment of monument preservation based on historical data. To continue working in this spirit, our department joined the international Interreg Danube Transnational Programme project “Living Danube Limes”, co-funded by the Hungarian State that aims to highlight the cultural, symbolic and touristic value of the former Roman frontiers and routes, and the ideas to provide innovative concepts for the development of historic sites along the river. The study aims at giving an insight into the activities carried out and planned so far within the framework of this cooperation