Imre Makovecz

Hungarian architect (1935–2011)

Imre Makovecz made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.

The record lists Imre Makovecz as Hungarian architect (1935–2011).

Imre Makovecz was born at Budapest in 1935. His recorded nationality is Hungary. He was educated at Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.

Imre Makovecz is described as architect.

The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.

His recorded fields of work are architect.

Formal recognition came in the shape of the Commander Cross of the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic.

Working from Hungary shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.

Death came in 2011, at 76. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.

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