Imre Makovecz

Imre Makovecz ( born November 20, 1935 in Budapest, † September 27, 2011 ) was a Hungarian architect.

Work

Makovecz represented, alongside György Csete and the Pécs Group, the Hungarian organic architecture. His buildings reveal the influence of Rudolf Steiner, Antoni Gaudi, Frank Lloyd Wright, as well as by the Hungarian Art Nouveau Odon Lechner. Makovecz was known buildings with strong anthropomorphic character, such as the mortuary of the Budapest cemetery Farkasrét (1975 ), whose vaulting ribs appear modeled after a human rib cage, as well as the cultural center of Sárospatak whose ground plan "open arms " signals. To Makovecz ' major works include the Redoute ( Vigadó ) in Szigetvár (1985-1987 ). Makovecz ' work was mainly in the 1970s and 1980s in the context of postmodernism international attention; after the turn he was allowed to make the Hungarian Pavilion at the World Exhibition in Seville, whose reference to the church tower motif illustrates the Christian- national setting of the architect. Him an honorary member of the Association of German Architects BDA was awarded in 1989.