The crumbling grandeur of Budapest, in luscious photographs from the duo behind The Ruins of Detroit
Between 2014 and 2016, French photographers Yves Marchand (born 1981) and Romain Meffre (born 1987) visited 400 of the more than 4,000 internal courtyards in Budapest. Their large number and variety of styles incorporating different facets of classicism and modernity make them a remarkable architectural phenomenon--a charming second city within the city.
Marchand and Meffre systematically documented these courtyards, producing a typological series that describes this particular...