Aladár Árkay

Hungarian architect (1868-1932)

Aladár Árkay practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.

The record lists Aladár Árkay as Hungarian architect (1868-1932).

Aladár Árkay was born at Timișoara in 1868. His recorded nationality is Hungary.

Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.

He is recorded as architect and painter.

His best-known building is Budai Vigadó. Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.

That the work was built in Hungary shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.

Aladár Árkay died in 1932, aged 64. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.

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