István Medgyaszay

[1] He was one of the first to employ Hungarian folk idioms, particularly from Transylvania, and combine them with influences ranging from the far east to organic architecture.

[1] He won the commission for the design of the national pantheon in 1903 and graduated the following year.

After further studies abroad he returned home and began working on the combination of reinforced concrete technology with folkloric design elements.

Medgyaszay had a successful academic career and was highly regarded until the communist takeover in the late 1940s when he was criticised for his apolitical or so-called formalist approach to art.

He did not receive an adequate retirement and stopped his working by the communist State in 1959 and died three weeks later.