Samu Pecz was a Hungarian architect and academic.

Career

Pecz studied at a number of universities both at home and abroad in Stuttgart

Stuttgart

Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....

. He later studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under the Danish architect Theophil Hansen, the builder of the Parliament, Musikverein and Stock Exchange buildings in Vienna.

After returning to Budapest

Budapest

Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...

 he worked with Frigyes Schulek

Frigyes Schulek

Frigyes Schulek was a Hungarian architect, a professor at József Technical University and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences .-Education:...

 on the Matthias Church

Matthias Church

Matthias Church is a church located in Budapest, Hungary, at the heart of Buda's Castle District. According to church tradition, it was originally built in Romanesque style in 1015. The current building was constructed in the florid late Gothic style in the second half of the 14th century and was...

 in Buda

Buda

For detailed information see: History of Buda CastleBuda is the western part of the Hungarian capital Budapest on the west bank of the Danube. The name Buda takes its name from the name of Bleda the Hun ruler, whose name is also Buda in Hungarian.Buda comprises about one-third of Budapest's...

 and later in the offices of Alajos Hauszmann

Alajos Hauszmann

Hauszmann Alajos was an Austro-Hungarian architect, professor, and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.-Life:...

. At this time he familiarised himself with gothic architecture

Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is a style of architecture that flourished during the high and late medieval period. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture....

, particularly in church design. Later, Pecz worked in the technical university

Budapest University of Technology and Economics

The Budapest University of Technology and Economics , in hungarian abbreviated as BME, English official abbreviation BUTE, is the most significant University of Technology in Hungary and is also one of the oldest Institutes of Technology in the world, having been founded in 1782.-History:BME is...

 under Schulek and Imre Steindl

Imre Steindl

Imre Steindl was a Hungarian architect.- Biography :He graduated at the Technical University of Budapest and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He was a teacher of the Budapest Technical University from 1869...

 and became a lecturer is 1887. He was 34 years old when he became the dean of the building faculty which he continued to be until his death. He designed numerous buildings in the historicist tradition, often employing Zsolnay

Zsolnay

Zsolnay, or formally Zsolnay Porcelánmanufaktúra Zrt is a Hungarian manufacturer of porcelain, pottery, ceramics, tiles, and stoneware...

 tiles to rich effect.

Main works

Country

• Dévaváya: Reformed Church
• Debrecen: Reformed Church on Kossuth Street
• Nagyvárad (now Oradea, Romania): Lutheran church
• Kolozsvár (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania): Széky Palace

Budapest

• District V: Unitarian Church and apartments on Nagy Ignác Street
• District IX: Great Market Hall
  Great Market Hall (Budapest)
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   on Fővám Square
• District I: National Archives building in Buda Castle
  Buda Castle
  Buda Castle is the historical castle and palace complex of the Hungarian kings in Budapest, first completed in 1265. In the past, it was also called Royal Palace and Royal Castle ....
  
  
• District I: Reformed Church on Szilágyi Dezső Square
• District VII: Fasori Lutheran Church and Boys' gymnasium
• District XI: Technical University Library on Budafoki Street
• District VIII: "Gólyavár" on Muzeum blvd.
• District IX: Tenement house on Nagyvárad Square

Writings

(in Hungarian)

• Introduction to Greek stonework (A görög kőszerkezetek ismertetése) (Budapest, 1886)
• On the development of ancient Christian architecture(Az ókeresztény templom-építészet fejlődése0 (Budapest, 1886)
• On the building of Protestant churches (A protestáns templomok építéséről) (Budapest, 1888)