VADÁSZ, György
architect
(18 Febr. 1933, Budapest –)
He gained his diploma at the faculty of architecture at the Technical University of Budapest in 1957, following which he became the architect of the Budapesti Városépítési Tervező Vállalat (City Planning Enterprise of Budapest) at the workshop of Boros Zoltán. 1972: Ybl Award; 1976: the Golden Award of the Medal for Hungarian Culture; 1979: Pro Urbe Award; 1984: Pro-Arte Award; the knight of the Order of the Hungarian Republic; 1996: Pro Architectura Award, Budapest Architectural Award; the Grand Award for the House of the Year; 1998: Kossuth Award; Pro Architectura Award of Budapest. 2000: Won first prize at the design competition for the National Theatre of Budapest. He was the chief architect of IPARTERV from 1957 to 1964, during which time he completed the master’s school of the Society of Hungarian Architects from 1958 to 1961. His masters were Jenő Szendrői, János Böhönyei, Károly Weichinger, and Károly Kávid. He was chief of the department section at the City Planning Enterprise of Budapest and was appointed a teacher of the school of the Society of Hungarian Architects in 1978. From 1983 he became a leading member of the Committee of Town Embellishment and the head architect of the city of Baja. Vadász planned the installations used with Imre Varga’s statues at the 41st Biennale of Venice. In 1985 he received an honorary teacher’s position, it was then that he left the City Planning Enterprise of Budapest and founded Artunion Széchényi Építőművész Studió /Art-union Szechényi Architectural Studio/, which he lead until 1988. In 1986 he was the head architect of Pásztó; between 1989 and 1990 he was the head of the office of PÉCSITERV located in Budapest. Since 1991 he is the president of his own company named Vadász és Társai Építőművész Kft. (Vadász and Associates Architectural Ltd.). Vadász is considered one of the greatest architects of the past few decades. During the first decade of his extraordinarily multifold career (end of the 1960’s, 1970’s) he was among the first to loosen the rigid structure of “international modern” buildings, by setting into motion the masses contained therein, and the rhythmic dismembering of these, adding to them scenic elements. The architectural ideas of F.L. Wright may be found in a number of the family homes designed by him (i.e. family house, Erdőalja Street, Budapest), while in some of his other buildings natural and vernacular elements are also contemplated on and utilized (Water Basin, Gellért Hill, Budapest, Wine cellar in Szigliget, Catholic Church in Balassagyarmat) Vadász consciously discloses himself from any specific style, and attempts, in a similar manner to postmodernism, to fill his buildings with intimacy, with “the world of fairy tales”. He formed his city centers to constitute “architectural surroundings”. He was concerned with the manner in which architecture and nature could become assimilated with one another. The relationship between nature and the interior gained significance not only in his own, completely open system family house, but also in his “Új Bauhaus” /New Bauhaus/ houses, which, in their form, were quite unlike the buildings he had designed earlier. In these works of his one can discover the optimal utilization of possibilities provided by existing materials and technologies, a clear structuring of the given spaces and besides the customary “Bauhaus-like” forms, a slight sense of a Japanese influence. He considers the reestablishment of the coexistence of architecture and art a significant task, in such a manner however, that the produced work has a not only applicative relationship with the erected building. These ideas are closely intertwined with his approach of the fine arts: his freehand plans, the sketches demonstrating his ideas are qualified graphic works in themselves; his water basin on Gellért Hill may be viewed as a sculptural work of art. He participated in the design and architectural construction of a number of public statues and memorials. One-Man Shows:
1971 • Műcsarnok, Budapest [with Tibor Vilt]
1981 • Festőterem, Sopron (HU) • XLI. Biennale of Venice, Venice. Selected Group Exhibitions:
1989 • House of Arts, Pécs (HU). Most Important Buildings:
Hospital (1971, Tétényi road, Budapest)
Diplomat home (1971-1972, Budakeszi road, Budapest)
MEDOSZ-Headquaters [with Endre Mészáros] (1975-1979, Jókai square, Budapest)
Water-reservoir at Gellérthegy [with András Széll] (1975-1981, Hegyalja road, Budapest)
Gellért Effervescent bath [with Mária Fohl] (1975-1979, Gellért Bath, Budapest)
Family home (1976-1977, Erdőalja road, Budapest)
Zalaegerszeg (HU), City center, 1th-2nd phase – so-called: „lace-houses” [with Judit Horváth] (1976-80)
Krisztina II. Crossbar-telephone [with Judit Horváth] (1981-1986, Városmajor street, Budapest)
Bus Terminal [with Miklós Kovács] [1986, Nagykőrös (HU)]
Baja (HU) City center I-II. phase [with Éva Nánay and Attila Specker] (1986-90)
Model housing estate [I. Ádám, P. Czér, ifj. Eleöd, F. Fogarasi, M. Horváth, M. Kovács, I. Tekeres, T. Tóth] [1987-1991, Dunakeszi (HU)]
Terraced houses [with Tibor Tóth] [1987-1990, Pásztó (HU)]
Family home [with Ildikó Ádám] (1987-1988, Tündér street, Budapest)
Block-house [with Váncza László] (1990, Mátyás király road, Budapest)
House of the Art Auctions (1990, Mátyás király road, Budapest)
City center of Pásztó (HU) I. phase (1990-91)
Family home (1990, Óra road, Budapest)
Zalaegerszeg III. I. phase [with Ildikó Tekeres] (1990-91)
Block-house [with Vadász Bence] (1991, Zöldlomb street, Budapest)
City center of Pásztó II. phase [with Ildikó Ádám] (1993)
Mediterranean wein-cellar [with Péter Basa] [1993, Szigliget (HU)]
Zalaegerszeg City center III. 2. phase [with Ildikó Tekeres] (1995)
Office building [with Ildikó Ádám] (1995, Orbánhegyi street, Budapest)
OTP-subdivision [with Éva Gulyás, Ildikó Tekeres and Bence Vadász] (1996, Csatárka sreet, Budapest)
Business- and Dwelling-house [with Péter Basa and Tamás Takács] (1996, Árpád street, Budapest)
His own Family-home [1996, Szentendre (HU)]
Dwelling-aggregation [with Tamás Takács] [1997, Hattyú street, Vác (HU)]
New Bauhaus residential area [with László Váncza, Miklós Miltényi and Noémi Király] (1997, Beregszászi road, Budapest)
Roman Catholic Church [with Éva Gulyás] [1997-1998, Balassagyarmat (HU)]
Funeral Chapel [with Bence Vadász] [1997-1998, Vác (HU)]
New Bauhaus residential area, new buildings [with Ildikó Ádám, Noémi Király] (1998)
Atrium house [with Ildikó Ádám] [1998, Telki (HU)]
Atrium house [with Ildikó Tekeres] [1998, Szada (HU)]
Hannover, EXPO 2000 hungarian pavilion (1999-2000).
Art Works:
Dózsa-memorial [with László Marton] [1974, Mezőtúr (HU)]
National Memorial [with Gusztáv Szlezák, Pál Kő, Sándor Kiss, István Szabó, József Király, Gyula Illés, István Bencsik and József Pölöskey] [1976, Mohács (HU)]
József Attila sculpture [with László Marton] (1981, Budapest)
Gellérthegy, look-out stone [with Márta Lesenyei] (1982-1984, Budapest)
Gábor Áron-memorial [with Sándor Kiss] (1984, Budapest)
King Béla I. sculpture [with Márta Lesenyei] [1987, Szekszárd (HU)]
King Sigismond sculpture [with Sándor Kiss] [1988, Pásztó (HU)]
King Saint Stephen sculpure [with Károly Kirchmayer] [1988, Kalocsa (HU)]
Bezerédj-memorial [with György Benedek] [1988, Szedres (HU)]
Miklós Zrínyi [with Béla Tóth] [1989, Zalaegerszeg (HU)]
Stone of the martyrs of Arad [with Endre Bartos] [1990, Baja (HU)]
Szondy-memorial [with Pál Kő] [1990, Drégelypalánk (HU)]
Zoltán Latinovits sculpture [with Miklós Melocco] [1991, Balatonszemes (HU)]
Memorial place of the Muhi Bottle [with László Váncza and Sándor Kiss] (1991)
Republican memorial [with Péter Basa and Sándor Kiss] (1994, Budapest)
Beggar-portal [with Bence Vadász, Pál Kő and János Lehoczky] (1995, Budapest)
Saint John Nepomuk Baldachin [with Péter Czér] [1996, Pásztó (HU)]
Cserhát Gate [with Péter Czér] [1997, Pásztó (HU)]
Saint Stephen memorial and Cross [with Sándor Kiss and Péter Czér] [1998, Somlóhegy (HU)]
Millenial Monument at the Danube-bank [with Péter Czér] (2001).
Bibliography:
Kúnos, L.: Beszélgetés ~gyel, Architectura-series, Budapest, 1999.
(Translation: Vladimir Végh)
architect
(18 Febr. 1933, Budapest –)
He gained his diploma at the faculty of architecture at the Technical University of Budapest in 1957, following which he became the architect of the Budapesti Városépítési Tervező Vállalat (City Planning Enterprise of Budapest) at the workshop of Boros Zoltán. 1972: Ybl Award; 1976: the Golden Award of the Medal for Hungarian Culture; 1979: Pro Urbe Award; 1984: Pro-Arte Award; the knight of the Order of the Hungarian Republic; 1996: Pro Architectura Award, Budapest Architectural Award; the Grand Award for the House of the Year; 1998: Kossuth Award; Pro Architectura Award of Budapest. 2000: Won first prize at the design competition for the National Theatre of Budapest. He was the chief architect of IPARTERV from 1957 to 1964, during which time he completed the master’s school of the Society of Hungarian Architects from 1958 to 1961. His masters were Jenő Szendrői, János Böhönyei, Károly Weichinger, and Károly Kávid. He was chief of the department section at the City Planning Enterprise of Budapest and was appointed a teacher of the school of the Society of Hungarian Architects in 1978. From 1983 he became a leading member of the Committee of Town Embellishment and the head architect of the city of Baja. Vadász planned the installations used with Imre Varga’s statues at the 41st Biennale of Venice. In 1985 he received an honorary teacher’s position, it was then that he left the City Planning Enterprise of Budapest and founded Artunion Széchényi Építőművész Studió /Art-union Szechényi Architectural Studio/, which he lead until 1988. In 1986 he was the head architect of Pásztó; between 1989 and 1990 he was the head of the office of PÉCSITERV located in Budapest. Since 1991 he is the president of his own company named Vadász és Társai Építőművész Kft. (Vadász and Associates Architectural Ltd.). Vadász is considered one of the greatest architects of the past few decades. During the first decade of his extraordinarily multifold career (end of the 1960’s, 1970’s) he was among the first to loosen the rigid structure of “international modern” buildings, by setting into motion the masses contained therein, and the rhythmic dismembering of these, adding to them scenic elements. The architectural ideas of F.L. Wright may be found in a number of the family homes designed by him (i.e. family house, Erdőalja Street, Budapest), while in some of his other buildings natural and vernacular elements are also contemplated on and utilized (Water Basin, Gellért Hill, Budapest, Wine cellar in Szigliget, Catholic Church in Balassagyarmat) Vadász consciously discloses himself from any specific style, and attempts, in a similar manner to postmodernism, to fill his buildings with intimacy, with “the world of fairy tales”. He formed his city centers to constitute “architectural surroundings”. He was concerned with the manner in which architecture and nature could become assimilated with one another. The relationship between nature and the interior gained significance not only in his own, completely open system family house, but also in his “Új Bauhaus” /New Bauhaus/ houses, which, in their form, were quite unlike the buildings he had designed earlier. In these works of his one can discover the optimal utilization of possibilities provided by existing materials and technologies, a clear structuring of the given spaces and besides the customary “Bauhaus-like” forms, a slight sense of a Japanese influence. He considers the reestablishment of the coexistence of architecture and art a significant task, in such a manner however, that the produced work has a not only applicative relationship with the erected building. These ideas are closely intertwined with his approach of the fine arts: his freehand plans, the sketches demonstrating his ideas are qualified graphic works in themselves; his water basin on Gellért Hill may be viewed as a sculptural work of art. He participated in the design and architectural construction of a number of public statues and memorials. One-Man Shows:
1971 • Műcsarnok, Budapest [with Tibor Vilt]
1981 • Festőterem, Sopron (HU) • XLI. Biennale of Venice, Venice. Selected Group Exhibitions:
1989 • House of Arts, Pécs (HU). Most Important Buildings:
Hospital (1971, Tétényi road, Budapest)
Diplomat home (1971-1972, Budakeszi road, Budapest)
MEDOSZ-Headquaters [with Endre Mészáros] (1975-1979, Jókai square, Budapest)
Water-reservoir at Gellérthegy [with András Széll] (1975-1981, Hegyalja road, Budapest)
Gellért Effervescent bath [with Mária Fohl] (1975-1979, Gellért Bath, Budapest)
Family home (1976-1977, Erdőalja road, Budapest)
Zalaegerszeg (HU), City center, 1th-2nd phase – so-called: „lace-houses” [with Judit Horváth] (1976-80)
Krisztina II. Crossbar-telephone [with Judit Horváth] (1981-1986, Városmajor street, Budapest)
Bus Terminal [with Miklós Kovács] [1986, Nagykőrös (HU)]
Baja (HU) City center I-II. phase [with Éva Nánay and Attila Specker] (1986-90)
Model housing estate [I. Ádám, P. Czér, ifj. Eleöd, F. Fogarasi, M. Horváth, M. Kovács, I. Tekeres, T. Tóth] [1987-1991, Dunakeszi (HU)]
Terraced houses [with Tibor Tóth] [1987-1990, Pásztó (HU)]
Family home [with Ildikó Ádám] (1987-1988, Tündér street, Budapest)
Block-house [with Váncza László] (1990, Mátyás király road, Budapest)
House of the Art Auctions (1990, Mátyás király road, Budapest)
City center of Pásztó (HU) I. phase (1990-91)
Family home (1990, Óra road, Budapest)
Zalaegerszeg III. I. phase [with Ildikó Tekeres] (1990-91)
Block-house [with Vadász Bence] (1991, Zöldlomb street, Budapest)
City center of Pásztó II. phase [with Ildikó Ádám] (1993)
Mediterranean wein-cellar [with Péter Basa] [1993, Szigliget (HU)]
Zalaegerszeg City center III. 2. phase [with Ildikó Tekeres] (1995)
Office building [with Ildikó Ádám] (1995, Orbánhegyi street, Budapest)
OTP-subdivision [with Éva Gulyás, Ildikó Tekeres and Bence Vadász] (1996, Csatárka sreet, Budapest)
Business- and Dwelling-house [with Péter Basa and Tamás Takács] (1996, Árpád street, Budapest)
His own Family-home [1996, Szentendre (HU)]
Dwelling-aggregation [with Tamás Takács] [1997, Hattyú street, Vác (HU)]
New Bauhaus residential area [with László Váncza, Miklós Miltényi and Noémi Király] (1997, Beregszászi road, Budapest)
Roman Catholic Church [with Éva Gulyás] [1997-1998, Balassagyarmat (HU)]
Funeral Chapel [with Bence Vadász] [1997-1998, Vác (HU)]
New Bauhaus residential area, new buildings [with Ildikó Ádám, Noémi Király] (1998)
Atrium house [with Ildikó Ádám] [1998, Telki (HU)]
Atrium house [with Ildikó Tekeres] [1998, Szada (HU)]
Hannover, EXPO 2000 hungarian pavilion (1999-2000).
Art Works:
Dózsa-memorial [with László Marton] [1974, Mezőtúr (HU)]
National Memorial [with Gusztáv Szlezák, Pál Kő, Sándor Kiss, István Szabó, József Király, Gyula Illés, István Bencsik and József Pölöskey] [1976, Mohács (HU)]
József Attila sculpture [with László Marton] (1981, Budapest)
Gellérthegy, look-out stone [with Márta Lesenyei] (1982-1984, Budapest)
Gábor Áron-memorial [with Sándor Kiss] (1984, Budapest)
King Béla I. sculpture [with Márta Lesenyei] [1987, Szekszárd (HU)]
King Sigismond sculpture [with Sándor Kiss] [1988, Pásztó (HU)]
King Saint Stephen sculpure [with Károly Kirchmayer] [1988, Kalocsa (HU)]
Bezerédj-memorial [with György Benedek] [1988, Szedres (HU)]
Miklós Zrínyi [with Béla Tóth] [1989, Zalaegerszeg (HU)]
Stone of the martyrs of Arad [with Endre Bartos] [1990, Baja (HU)]
Szondy-memorial [with Pál Kő] [1990, Drégelypalánk (HU)]
Zoltán Latinovits sculpture [with Miklós Melocco] [1991, Balatonszemes (HU)]
Memorial place of the Muhi Bottle [with László Váncza and Sándor Kiss] (1991)
Republican memorial [with Péter Basa and Sándor Kiss] (1994, Budapest)
Beggar-portal [with Bence Vadász, Pál Kő and János Lehoczky] (1995, Budapest)
Saint John Nepomuk Baldachin [with Péter Czér] [1996, Pásztó (HU)]
Cserhát Gate [with Péter Czér] [1997, Pásztó (HU)]
Saint Stephen memorial and Cross [with Sándor Kiss and Péter Czér] [1998, Somlóhegy (HU)]
Millenial Monument at the Danube-bank [with Péter Czér] (2001).
Bibliography:
Kúnos, L.: Beszélgetés ~gyel, Architectura-series, Budapest, 1999.
(Translation: Vladimir Végh)
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