László Csaba
László Csaba (Budapest, 1924. October 9. – Budapest, 1995. January 18.) Hungarian archtect, 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.
Miklos Ybl prize: 1959; 1988
August Perret prize, 1961
Istvan Kotsis memorial prize, 1992.
Family
He had two children from his marriage, his wife was Sara Juhasz, also an architect.
Works
Secular buildings
1950s
Belapatfalva cultural house
Miskolc cold stores
1960s
Railway Industry Research institute
1970s
Budapest house factory accomodation buildings
1980s
Hollohazi porcelain factory new building
Videoton factory building
1990s
Knezich u Patrona Hungariae Girl's gimnazium and order college reconstruction
Hungarian Suzuki Esztergom factory main buildings
Church buildings
Cserepvaralja, 1961
[[[Hollohaza]], R.C. church, 1966
Hodasz, 1977
Nyirderzs, 1984
Bekasmegyer, Lekai Biboros ter church, 1987
Kaposvar, Beke str church, 1988
Floratanya, chapel, 1991
Kalocsa, Our Lady's Nunnery, 1991-92 (with Sara Juhasz)