Architect
country:Hungary
website: www.ferdinand.hu
Bio
1990-1992: Technische Universität Graz, Faculty of Architecture
1994: Graduation
1987-1990, 1992-1994: Budapesti Műszaki Egyetem(University of Technology Budapest) Faculty of Architecture
Chartered Architect
2000-: Senior Architect Designer
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1998-: Ferdinánd és Ferdinánd Architects Ltd, owner, managing director
(Co-owner: Ferdinánd Csaba)
1994-: Secrys Architecture and Design Ltd, owner, executive Budapest
(Co-owners: Sebestyén Ágnes, Ferdinánd Csaba)
1994: Szántó & Mikó Architects Budapest
unior architect responsible for designing various minor projects
1990-1992: Giencke & Company Architekturbüro Graz junior architect
responsible for designing various projects
Ferdinand and Ferdinand Architects Profile
Our architectural office was established by the three of us in 1994.
Our company name was Secrys Építészeti Tervező és Szolgáltató Bt. at that time. We switched to Secrys Építészeti Tervező Kft. (Secrys Architectural Design, Inc.) in 1996 (owners: Ágnes Sebestyén, Csaba Ferdinánd, Árpád Ferdinánd) as to follow the growth of our firm.
To emphasize the importance of our names we established a new company in 1998, named Ferdinánd és Ferdinánd Építésziroda Kft. (Ferdinand and Ferdinand Architects, Inc.) (Partners: Csaba Ferdinánd, Árpád Ferdinánd), however we have kept on fulfilling our previous commitments in the frame of our previous firm.
Our office is equipped with ten personal computers, four professional printers and a plotter. We utilize a 100 Mbytes/sec internal network to share our projects. These features help us to keep high standards in our work, and delivering strictly on schedule. Our work is acknowledged by the Treasury Property Departement and well-established private investors among our clients.
:: Photo information and credits:
1 > Residential Building in Tulipan st. Budapest, Hungary
Photos courtesy © Istvan Oravecz
2 > Hotel Balneum, Tiszafured, Hungary
Photos courtesy © Ferdinand and Ferdinand Architects
3 > Pannon Falap-Lemez Head Office Biatorbágy, Hungary
Photos courtesy © Istvan Oravecz
4 > Residential Building in Szemlohegy st. Budapest, Hungary
Photos courtesy © Istvan Oravecz
5 > UNIQA Vital Business Center Budapest, Hungary
Photos courtesy © Istvan Oravecz
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Interview Date: 28-12-2011
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:: You have created the architectural office “Ferdinard architects”, based in Croatia. As you say, your goal is the clear, modern architecture, you are looking for the possible in impossible, you know that you are only little points in the all and the world will never getting better but you are always believing in it.
Hungary is a country with great history and traditional architecture. Designing a modern building within this context is a complex procedure. Is critical regionalism an approach to your architecture?
How would you characterize contemporary European architecture nowadays?
Is the world financial crisis an opportunity for everyone to reconsider the ways that we design and construct the buildings and the urban environment?
But how can these concepts be reconsidered by an architect, whose office has been closed due to lack of new projects/ development. I think it would have been much easier to iniate a change in our mindset if there had been no crisis whatsoever. (...we could have made the process of change our mind better without this crisis.)
We have lost a lot of good brains, who will never find their way back to the architectural practice. I don't know if the figure I have heard is right, but we were told in a congress, that there is 80% unemployment among the architects in Hungary. Valueable thinking capacities are wasted at the moment.
Does Architecture as a profession need empowerment? In which ways should this be done?
Not at all. Maybee you are working as a member of a planning team, but â01Eyou allways walk aloneâ01D, because the essential process is going in your mind. You can only let it check by others, but you don't need any empowerment, democratic voting or so...
In recent years attention turns to green urban regeneration. Do you think that it is imperative for the city or it’s just a new fashion with economic outcomes and covertly interests?
Green urban regeneration is important in many aspects : we need more green areas in the city to improve the level of our urban life: parks, horizontal and vertical gardens / plus we need to increase our green energy consumption as opposed to non-reneweble energy. Naturally it can only be done gradually. The technologies are not always economically efficient at the moment. It makes no sense to invest in a technology with a return period of 20-30 years. By the way in the urban development we also have to solve the reduction of the energy consumption for the vehicles, because the traffic needs a lot of non-reneweble energy at the moment.
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