Dénes Györgyi was a Hungarian architect, a member of the Györgyi-Giergl artistic family.
Background
Gyorgyi was born in Budapest into a well-known clan of artists which stretched back generations. On his father"s side, his great grandfather, Alajos Giergl (1793–1868) was a silversmith who originated from the Tyrol and his grandfather, Alajos Györgyi Giergl (1821–1863), was a well-known painter in Pest. His father, Kálmán Györgyi (1860–1930) was a craftsman and art theorist, the director of the National Society of Applied Arts and editor of its journal.
Education
Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
Career
Family background
Two other close relatives, Géza Gyorgyi (1851–1934) and Kálmán Giergl (1863–1934) were well known architects. The latter built the Music Academy and Klotild Palaces in Pest. Also notable in the clan was Henrik Giergl (1827–1871), a glass artist and trader.
Gyorgyi began studying architecture at the Budapest Joseph Technical University, where he met his slightly older contemporary Károly Kóson
Together they formed a unique partnership and, most significantly, they built the Városmajor Street school in Budapest. On his own, Györgyi designed the Hangya Associated Office building (1920) and many other schools and public buildings in regional cities, for example the Copf-style Deri Museum in Debrecen.
He also designed numerous pavilions for world fairs: Barcelona (1929), the Brussels International Exposition (1935), and the Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (1937). He designed the Electricity Works at Budapest"s Székesfőváros (1926–1938), which incorporated art deco and modernist elements.
He briefly became involved in the Hungarian People"s Republic offices of State Planning during the 1950s, but illness prevented this from continuing.
Györgyi died in Balatonalmádi. His collaborator Kós considered him "One of the outstanding architects in Hungary of that sorrowful and dark period between the wars". 1910-1920
Hungarian pavilion at the World Fair Turin, with Emil Tory and Móric Pogány
Városmajor Street primary school, Budapest, with Károly Kós
Participant of the Wekerle housing estate (buildings on the main square), Kispest
Hangya office building (the present-day MOL Group"s building), Közraktár Street 30, Budapest
1920-1930
Balaton Museum, Keszthely
Deri Museum, Debrecen
Hungarian pavilion at the Exhibition in Philadelphia
ELMU apartments on Honvéd Street, Budapest
Hungarian pavilion at the World Fair in Barcelona
1930-1940
Hungary Room, Pittsburgh
Apartments on Orom Street, Budapest
Houses on Street János Square.
Nyary Pal Street 10, Budapest
Hungarian pavilion at the World Fair in Brussels
Office building of the Danuvia factory, Budapest
Hungarian pavilion at the Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne
ELMU buildings on Attila Street, Budapest
1940-1950
Primary school on Tomcsányi Street, Budapest
Primary school, Balatonalmádi.