Attila Turi

Kossuth Prize and Ybl Miklós Prize-winning architect, president of the Hungarian Academy of Arts (2023–)

Budapest, 13 December 1959

Full member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts (2012–)

For Attila Turi, architecture is inseparable from community, tradition and respect for inherited values. The first defining image of this trinity, which was burned into his memory as an archetype in his childhood, was the legendary workers' housing estate of the Óbuda Gas Factory designed by Lóránd Almási-Balogh. The other decisive moment that fundamentally shaped his career was his encounter with Imre Makovecz