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Professor Mihály Mőcsényi Has Been Awarded the Grand Prize of IFLA 2012

Text: Kinga Szilágyi

Feneketlen-tó rendezése, Budapest, 1960-as évek. Archív fotó

Mihály Mőcsényi is a prominent character and professor honoured as a „living legend” of Hungarian and international landscape architecture. As an emblematic figure of 20th century European landscape architecture he received Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe’s Award from the IFLA Executive Council at the conference held in in Cape Town in September 2012.
Fittingly referred to as the Nobel Prize of landscape architects, this award is a great honour for all the professionals of Hungarian landscape architecture. From the mid-20th century on it was Mőcsényi’s name that hallmarked landscape architecture training and the continuous revival of the discipline in Hungary. We are hereby paying tribute to his oeuvre embracing almost 70 years of activity with this article.