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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Imre Makovecz, Hungarian architect, died he was 75.

Imre Makovecz  was a Hungarian architect[1] active in Europe from the late 1950s onward.

(November 20, 1935 – September 27, 2011)

Makovecz was born and died in Budapest. He attended the Technical University of Budapest. He was founder and "eternal and executive president" of the Hungarian Academy of Arts.
Makovecz was one of the most prominent proponents of organic architecture. As such, his buildings attempt to work with the natural surroundings rather than triumph over them. Frank Lloyd Wright and Rudolf Steiner are both strong influences, as is traditional Hungarian art.[1]
His work began as a critique of communist ideology and the brutal uniformity of system building but, after the fall of the Communist regime in 1989, it became a comment on the nature of globalisation and corporate culture. In its attempts to refer to and build on Hungarian national archetypes Makovecz was continuing the work and ideas of the architects of Hungarian Art Nouveau and National Romanticism. The first English language monograph on his work, Imre Makovecz: The Wings of the Soul, by Edwin Heathcote, was published in 1997.

Makovecz's key works


Kakasd Community Center (1996)

Other important works


Roman Catholic church, Paks (1987-91)


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