I have recently become quite interested in the work of the late Hungarian organic architect Imre Makovecz. These images all appear in other of my galleries, but since the collection is slowly growing the more I travel around the country, I wanted to put them in one place.

Imre Makovecz (Nov. 20, 1935-Sept. 27, 2011), was a Hungarian architect active in Europe from the late 1950s onward.

Makovecz was one of the most prominent proponents of organic architecture. As such, his buildings attempt to work with the natural surroundings rather than triumph over them. Frank Lloyd Wright and Rudolf Steiner are both strong influences, as is traditional Hungarian art.

His work began as a critique of communist ideology and the brutal uniformity of system building but, after the fall of the Communist regime in 1989, it became a comment on the nature of globalization and corporate culture. In its attempts to refer to and build on Hungarian national archetypes Makovecz was continuing the work and ideas of the architects of Hungarian Art Nouveau and National Romanticism. (from Wikipedia)

More information on the extensive work of Makovecz can be found on his own site http://www.makovecz.hu/new/main.html (look under Fontosabb munkák). Also, the website of the firm where he worked as a lead architect is an excellent source of photographs not only of Makovecz's projects but of other organic works by his colleagues: http://eloepiteszet.hu/?q=hu/epuletek/epiteszek/kos-karoly-egyesules-tagok/makona-epitesz-tervezo-es-vallalkozo-kft/makovecz-imr -- the site is mainly in Hungarian but isn't difficult to navigate. The long list to the left of the page are his major works.