Samu Pecz
Samu Pecz ( born March 1, 1854 in Pest, † September 1, 1922 in Budapest) was a Hungarian architect of historicism.
Life
Samu Pecz (actually Samuel Petz ) began after graduating from high school in Budapest to study architecture at the Joseph University of Technology and Economics. In 1873 he moved for two years at the Technical University of Stuttgart; afterwards he studied for two years at T. Hansen at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. From 1878 to 1882 he worked at the Budapest architect Frigyes Schulek office and then opened his own office.
In addition to his work in numerous competitions and first projects he received in 1887 a guest and in 1888 a full professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Budapest. From the early 1890s he realized most of his designed in the Romanesque Revival style and Neo-Renaissance buildings that marked the long term with their colorful tiles or bricks, the Budapest cityscape. The most famous of his buildings is the Great Market Hall opened in 1897 in IX. Budapest district Ferencvaros - today the largest indoor market in Europe. In 1899 he won the first prize in the architectural competition for the Museum of Fine Arts; due to the too expensive planning he was not awarded the contract for its construction. In 1902 he is Chairman of the Hungarian Chamber of Architects ( MeK ). Pecz died in 1922 at the age of 68 years.