In the history of building, Samu Pecz is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Samu Pecz as Hungarian architect (1854–1922).
Samu Pecz was born at Pest in 1854. His recorded nationality is Hungary. He trained at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
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 university teacher.
Among his best-known works are Great Market Hall, Szilágyi Dezső tér Reformed Church and Fasori Gimnázium. An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
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.
Samu Pecz died in 1922, aged 68. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Great Market Hall
- Notable work: Szilágyi Dezső tér Reformed Church
- Notable work: Fasori Gimnázium
- Notable work: Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
- Trained at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
