Gabor Acs
Gábor Ács ( born 1926 in Budapest) is a Hungarian- burly architect. He was the chief planner for the Italian Società Generale Immobiliare real estate developer.
Life
Ács studied architecture at the Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, where he graduated in 1948. When Soviet troops occupied Hungary, his family fled to Italy and settled in Rome. Ács enrolled at the Politecnico di Milano in 1953 and took his degree in architecture. 1956 Ács traveled to the U.S. and entered the office of IM Pei, where he worked on the projects Kips Bay Plaza and Washington Square East as a design architect.
After he had become with Henry N. Cobb partner at Pei, Ács returned back to Italy in 1963 and opened an office in Piazza Navona in Rome.