The Exhibition of Hungarian Organic Architecture – Museum of Applied Arts

Text: János Csontos

„There is no other place in the world where organic architecture has such a firm-based, socially significant and important school as in Hungary”, said János Gerle trustee in his introduction to the exhibition. Besides Steiner, Antonio Gaudí, William Morris, Sigurd Lewerenz, John Ruskin, Frank Lloyd Wright and – from Hungary – Lechner, Medgyaszay, Kós, Toroczkay-Wigand and Lajta played an important role in the genealog myth and besides more or less significant representatives, buildings and activities of Hungarian organic architecture the exhibition also reveals European parallels from Alvar Aalto through Poroghesi to Peter Hübner.