Dénes Györgyi belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Dénes Györgyi as Hungarian architect (1886-1961).
Dénes Györgyi was born at Budapest in 1886. His recorded nationality is Hungary. He trained at Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as architect and university teacher.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
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.
Dénes Györgyi died in 1961, aged 75. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
