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NAGY, Tamás

architect
(Csorna,14^th, June 1951 – )

1971–1975: The Technical University of Budapest, Architectural Faculty. 1978-1980: Master’s School of the Society of Hungarian Building Artists. 1998: DLA-degree. 1975-1986: Budapesti Városépítési Tervező Vállalat /City Design Enterprise of Budapest/; 1987–1989: Waehler Architects New York; 1989-1990: MAKONA architect’s office; from 1990 the AXIS architect’s office. He taught at the Architect Faculty of the Carleton University of Ontario (California); between 1985 and 1986 he was a visiting lecturer at the Architectural Faculty of the Technical University of Budapest. Between 1991 and 1998 he was a lecturer at the College of Applied Arts of Budapest, then between 1996 and 1998 of the Bercsényi College. He received the Ybl award in 1992. Nagy began his career as the architect of Hungary who had the greatest viewpoint of the global architecture of the time. As opposed to the monist doctrine of modernism exemplary at the time he organized mobile exhibitions demonstrating pluralist ideals. He worked in Canada at the end of the 1970’s, later for American Architects in New York between 1987 and 1989. As a follower of architectural pluralism he believed that buildings designed with the synthesis of different styles could help to produce unique buildings, which would better, suit the subjective ideas and needs of a more and more differentiated circle of clients. Due to these traits the architectural traditions found in the buildings of Nagy are extremely diverse, however all are filled by a defined mentality: the attempt of reaching transcendentalism through the world of forms. The in-between space of Japanese houses also appears in the works of Nagy, which holds meditative contents similar to his inspirational source. His impulsive method of forming the given masses yielding to a higher controlling power in almost all of his works The organic school is amalgamated in his works with much more puritan, geometrical forms. Nagy searches for the inner center of his buildings the place of their cosmic connection. The formula of his main work the Evangelic Church of Dunaújváros resembles the base drawings of French revolutionary architecture, however he breaks up the saint geometrical base of the building with broken arches and architectonic details which scale different levels.
(Translation: Vladimir Végh)