Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Who did Eva Vecsei work for from 1952 to 1953?
Eva Vecsei Eva Hollo Vecsei ( born 21 August 1930 ) is a Hungarian-Canadian architect . She began her career in Budapest and emigrated to Montreal in 1957 , where she established Vecsei Architects with her husband in 1984 . Biography . Vecsei was born Eva Hollo in 1930 in Vienna . She completed a Bachelor of Architecture at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics , graduating in 1952 . After graduating , she taught at the universitys architectural school until 1953 as an assistant professor . In 1954 she designed housing for miners in Tatabánya and during 1955–1956 she worked on a school and housing projects . Eva Vecsei and her husband , André Vecsei , who married in 1952 , emigrated to Canada after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and settled in Montreal in 1957 . She became a naturalized citizen of Canada in 1962 . In 1958 she began working for the architectural firm Arcop , where she was in charge of design development of eight Massey Award winning projects . Vecsei was the senior project designer on the construction of Place Bonaventure from 1964 to 1967 . Place Bonaventure was among the most significant projects of her career , and press coverage of the buildings construction at the time highlighted Vecseis gender and innovative construction methods . Vecsei left Arcop in 1971 to join Dimitri Dimakopoulos practice . She worked there until 1973 , when she opened her own practice , Eva H . Vecsei Architect , in Montreal . Her first major project in her newly established firm was La Cité , the largest mixed use , high-density project in Canada at the time . Located in downtown Montreal it is comprised an office building , a hotel , three residential tower blocks , and a retail area - construction from 1973 to 1977 . La Cité was the first residential development in Montreal with a green rooftop serving the residents . In 1976 Yasmeen Lari architect invited Eva Vecsei as Architectural Consultant on the Karachi Trade and Finance Center , in Karachi , Pakistan . In 1983 at the invitation of the Chinese Government , RAIC sponsored ten Canadian architects on a lecture tour to China . Eva Vecsei was asked by the Beijing School of Architecture to present the La Cité project . Vecsei and her husband later went into practice together , co-establishing Vecsei Architects in 1984 . In the next 20 years they produced numerous public projects such as : College Marie de France , Elementary School , Montreal , Library and Cultural Centre , Dollard-des-Ormeaux , Municipal Library , St . Lambert , Manoir Montefiore , Seniors Condominium , Cote St . Luc. , Ark and Artworks for the Beth Zion Synagogue , Cote St . Luc and several planning studies . Husband and architectural partner Andre Vecsei died in 2006 . Vecsei has received numerous honours throughout her architectural career . She became a fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada in 1988 and was made an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1990 . She won the Canadian Architect Award of Excellence in 1983 and the Médaille du Mérite from the Order of Architects of Quebec in 2004 . She was the only Canadian woman included in the 1980 directory Contemporary Architects compiled by Mildred Schmertz . Publications on Eva Vecsei Architect : - “Eva Hollo Vecsei” Cronique rencontres par Pierre Boter-Mercier ARQ , August 2008 , p . 40 - “Leading Women Architects and designers of the 20th Century.Eva Vecsei” , Greenway’s Almanac of Architecture and Design , 2003 p . 414 - “Megastructures and Megacarriers : The Quebec Case” , Designing Women , Gender and the Architectural Profession . Adams/Tancred , University of Toronto Press , 2000 , pp . 60-64 - “Montreal’s Designing Women , Beaver Magazine , 2000 , pp . 29-39 - “L’architecture est ma seule passion!” Une Femme , Une Vote / Ministère des Communautés culturelle et de l’immigration . Danielle Colas , 1990 , pp . 58-59 - “Pratiques et pratiquants , Eva Vecsei et André Vecsei” , ARQ , ARCHITECTURE QUEBEC , 1988 , pp . 20-23 - “Vecsei , Eva” , Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Architects , St . Martin Press , New York , Mildred F . Schmertz , 1980 , pp . 846-848 - “Modern American Architecture” Zoltan Kosa , Hungarian edition 1973 , Text p.135 , Photos pp . 189-190 , 194-199 . - “La Cité,” Architectural Record , McGRAW-HILL publication , F . Schmertz , 1980 , p.p . 111-116 - “Church of St . Gérard Magella , Saint Jean , Quebec” “Tifereth Jerusalem Synagogue , City of Côte-St-Luc , Quebec” - Massey Medal for Architecture 1964 , pp . 84-85 Documentary… - “The spirit of it.. . tout était possible.” The Planning , Design and Construction of Place Ville Marie , Central Station and Place Bonaventure . Interview with Eva Vecsei in regards to Place Bonaventure . Produced by City of Montreal and Quebec Ministry of Culture and Communication , In celebration of Montreal’s 150th Anniversary . External links . - Finding aid for the Eva Hollo Vecsei collection , Canadian Centre for Architecture .