Györgyi, Dénes
Name
Györgyi, Dénes
Gender
Male
Birth
April 25, 1886 Budapest
Death
November 25, 1962 Balatonalmádi (Hungary)
Descriptive Note
Dénes Györgyi studied architecture at the Budapest Joseph Technical University, where he met fellow architect Kàroli Kós. With Kós, he founded the “Young Ones,” a group of young architects including Béla Jánszky and Dezső Zrumeczky. Inspired by the New Gothic language of Morris and Ruskin and by Scandinavian National Romanticism, the group explicitly evoked Hungarian Medieval traditions and folk spirit in their works. In 1910, Györgyi collaborated with Kós in the construction of the Városmajor Street Elementary School in Budapest, which included a daycare center, a school, and a pre-school. After Turin 1911, Györgyi participated in several other international expositions and created pavilions for the international exhibition in Barcelona (1929), the Brussels International Exposition (1935), and Paris’ Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (1937).
With Emil Tőry and Móric Pogány he won the competition for the design of the Pavilion of Hungary for the Turin 1911 Exposition. He forced to withdraw from the project due to illness.
Roles
Makers, Architects and Engineers
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