The bourgeois culture of Košice (Kassa) in Upper Hungary and the childhood of János Krcho, spent there in the early 1960s, converged at a fortunate historical moment. Family tradition and taste – shaped outside the bleak uniformity of socialist housing estates – and a Hungarian-language intellectual culture confined largely to the private sphere together set him on a path that consciously embraced the task of preserving
State award granted in recognition of outstanding professional work in architectural and archaeological monument protection.
