László Csaba
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László Csaba (Budapest, 9 October 1924 – Budapest, 18 January 1995) was a Hungarian architect, the most significant designer of religious architecture post-World War II in the country.
Career[]
Csaba graduated at Jozsef Nador Technical College in 1947. He became a member of the Hungarian Society of Architects and taught at the Budapest Technical college. He was head engineer of the Buda Tower Building Company from 1950 to 1951 and later became the director of the Technical Building Institute (1964–70). He worked on the Planning Institute as head engineer (1980–88) and was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts from 1992.
Prizes[]
Csaba has won numerous prizes, both at home and abroad, for his development of the principles of modern church design.
- : 1959; 1988
- August Perret prize, 1961
- memorial prize, 1992.
Family[]
He had two children from his marriage, his wife was Sara Juhasz, also an architect.
Works[]
Secular buildings
1950s
Bélapátfalva cultural house
Miskolc cold stores
1960s
Railway Industry Research institute
1970s
Budapest house factory accommodation buildings
1980s
Hollóházi porcelain factory new building
Videoton factory building
1990s
Knezich u Patrona Hungariae Girl's gimnazium and order college reconstruction
Magyar Suzuki, Esztergom factory main buildings
Church buildings
Cserépváralja, 1961
Hollóháza, R.C. church, 1966
Hodász, 1977
Nyírderzs, 1984
Békásmegyer, Lekai Biboros ter church, 1987
Kaposvár, Beke str church, 1988
, chapel, 1991
Kalocsa, Our Lady's Nunnery, 1991-92 (with Sara Juhasz)
- 1995 deaths
- 1924 births
- 20th-century Hungarian architects