Curriculum Vitae
1938 Born in Budapest, Hungary
1944-45 lived through the siege of Budapest
1952-56 Secondary school and matriculation: Rákóczi Gimnázium
1956 left Hungary after the Hungarian Uprising coming directly to England
1962 became British Citizen
1962 Diploma of Architecture with Honours, Northern Polytechnic
1962-64 Worked in the offices of Austin-Smith Salmon Lord, architects
1964-65 Studied for Master of Architecture at the University of Michigan
1967 returned to England rejoining Austin-Smith: Lord
1973 set up private practice to work in the field of office environments
(clients: IBM, international IT companies, City institutions)
2004 Curated Hungarian Architecture today: modernist and organic
(see Exhibitions)
2005 presented with Pro Cultura Hungaria medal
2004 arranged the English publication of British-Hungarian Diplomatic
Relations 1938-1941 by András D Bán, Routledge
2008 exhibition in Budapest of collection of Budapest doorways,
website: www.budapest-porta.com (see collections)
2009-onwards illustrated talks on London and Budapest their Bridges
and Rivers, Culture*History*Design;
2009-nwards: Count Széchenyi’s Diary,
2011 Paper: William Tierney Clark and the Buda-Pesth chain bridge
published in ICE Engineering History and Heritage (see papers).
2012 Received the Thomas Telford Premium for this paper
2012 Paper: William Tierney Clark: the man and his contemporaries
published in the Newcomen Journal (see papers)
2013 Paper co-authored with John Vignoles: The challenge of building
the Buda-Pesth Chain Bridge across the icebound Danube
published in ICE Engineering History and Heritage (see papers).
2014 Paper: The Chain Bridge over the Danube at Budapest for the
Landmark Bridges issue of the ICA Bridge Engineering 2015.
2010-14 Arranged the gathering into a digital database of the English
language correspondence and drawings related to the building of the
Chain Bridge completed in 1849
2014 ICE have agreed funding to launch the database on the internet
2011-14 arranged the erection of memorial plaques to WT Clark in
Hammersmith and Budapest
2016 awarded Knights Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary
2017 Reading of the play ‘No Neat Endings’ in the Ognisko Polskie London
Private life:
Marriage to Judith Spector (1966-1970)
Married Ildiko Anna Bornemissza (1977 -)
Two daughters: Sarah (1977), Julia (1986)
Grandchildren: Milo József (2010), Juno Eszter (2014)
Have lived and worked in Pimlico, London since 1979.
Memberships:
Royal Institute of British Architects,
London Library,
Athenaeum Club