István Medgyaszay, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Hungarian architect
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Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary
About István Medgyaszay
- István Medgyaszay (born Benkó) (23 August 1877 in Budapest – 29 April 1959 in Budapest) was a Hungarian architect and writer.
- He was one of the first to employ Hungarian folk idioms, particularly from Transylvania, and combine them with influences ranging from the far east to organic architecture.
- Medgyaszay studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and also at the Budapest Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts.
- He won the commission for the design of the national pantheon in 1903 and graduated the following year.
- After further studies abroad he returned home and began working on the combination of reinforced concrete technology with folkloric design elements.
- He also travelled to northern Africa and India to study the architecture there. In 1906, he took the mother's grandfather's surname for Medgyaszay. Medgyaszay had a successful academic career and was highly regarded until the communist takeover in the late 1940s when he was criticised for his apolitical or so-called formalist approach to art.
- He did not receive an adequate retirement and stopped his working by the communist State in 1959 and died three weeks later.
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