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Turányi studied at the Ybl Miklós College, where Kornél Beszédes taught him planning. He acquired his diploma at the architectural faculty of the Technical University of Budapest. Following his studies he was an architect of Lakóterv /Residential Planning/, working alongside Károly Juricsik, who he considers his master, after which he was an associate of the ÁÉTV /General Design Engineering Department/. In the second half of the 1980’s he studied at the school of the Society of Hungarian Architects, which he became a teacher of in the 1990’s. He also taught at College of Industrial Arts in Budapest. Since the beginning of the 1990’s he has been the architect of Buváti. The few designs planned by him that have thus far come to fruition, make Turányi one of the most significant architects of Hungary. One of his first noteworthy works, the educational and recreational building in Badacsonytomaj, Hungary, was designed in a variety of the style of Postmodernism, as well as containing elements of regionalism. It constitutes the first building in Hungary, which openly takes upon itself the intention of a disjointed concept and acknowledges the given conditions, furthermore the eventuality and contingency of the given task. His later buildings are also outstanding examples of the critical regionalist ambitions typical of Hungary: they recall historic associations with their finely archaic elements, however their appearance is not entirely romantic, since they do not recall true historical forms. Turányi makes use of natural, organic materials (i.e.: bricks, natural stones) as opposed to fashionable ones. His rustic buildings with their strong emotional charge draw from the notions of F. L. Wright and the traditional architecture of Finland, with its strongly nature orientated perception; Turányi however was removed from any specific architectural style. The taking into maximal consideration the morphology of the given site was also an important characteristic of his works. Turányi is considered a member of the Hungarian traditional group, which includes Károly Puskás, György Uray, Károly Weichinger, Zoltán Kósa, and Jenő Fodor. His buildings planned for larger cities make themselves conspicuous by fitting into their surroundings, still being a different from those. (Károly Boulevard 11, Budapest). The educational building in Badacsonytomaj received the Miklós Ybl Award in 1984. He won a tender in 1995 with his design plan for the Hungarian pavilion for the expo. In 1995 he founded the Turányi and Simon Architectural Office.

Most Important Works:
Block House (1982-1983, II. distr., Orsó street, Budapest)
Dwelling-house with 104 apartement [with Katalin Somogyi Soma and Péter Sugár] [1983-1984, Kecskemét (HU)]
Educational and Leisure Building [1984, Badacsonytomaj (HU)]
Gyula, (HU) Arrangement of the Szabadság square (1984-1985)
Enlargement of the Roman Catholic Church of Óbuda-Újlak, Budapest [with László Vincze] (1985-1987)
Office Building (1992, Károly boulevard 11., with enlargement towards Asbóth street, Budapest) [with Tihamér Szalay, Ferenc Vörös, Pál Somogyi]
Office Building (14. distr., Gyarmat street 26., Budapest)
Project for the hungarian pavilion of EXPO 96 (1994)
Open-air School [1997, Visegrád (HU)] [with András Göde and László Földes]
Tourist House [1998-1999, Herend (HU)].

One-Man Shows:
1994 • Municipal Picture Gallery, Budapest • Three Architecture,Ljubljana (SL) • Dessa Architectural Gallery, Budapest.