Alajos Hauszmann

Alajos Hauszmann, from 1918 Hauszmann de Velencze, was a Hungarian architect, professor, and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Life

Hauszmann was born in Buda in 1847 into a family of Bavarian origin as the son of Ferenc Hauszmann and Anna Maár, Ferenc and Kornélia ). He studied painting from 1861, then became a bricklayer's apprentice. In 1864 he attended the Royal Joseph University, and in 1866 he continued architecture studies at the Bauakademie in Berlin, along with Ödön Lechner.

1868 Assistant Professor at the Royal Joseph University
1869–1870. Grand tour of Italy to study renaissance architecture
1872 Professor at the Royal Joseph University for the next 40 years
1874 Married Mariette Senior, whom he met in Berlin
Designed barracks for the Red Cross, to be known as Hauszmann-barracks in Austria and Switzerland
1891 Named chief architect for Buda Castle in Budapest
Received the Order of Franz Joseph, Grand Cross

Hauszmann employed several architects who later became prominent in their own right, including Albert Kálmán Kőrössy. In 1912 Hauszmann retired, and a year later he created a foundation for young architects graduating from the Royal Joseph University. In 1914 he went on an extended journey to Egypt and the Holy Land. In recognition of his work, he was ennobled by King Charles IV of Hungary with the suffix de Velencze on March 10, 1918. In the following year, his private home was confiscated during the Hungarian Soviet Republic. In 1924 he was elected an honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He died, aged 79, in Velence. He is buried in the Kerepesi Cemetery in Budapest.

Major works

Architecture and design

1870 German Theater, Budapest
1870 Kiosk, Erzsébet tér, Budapest
1871–1872 Tüköry palace, Budapest
1874–1875 Coburg palace, Budapest
1876 Church of the Sacred Heart, Gyoma
1876–1878 Kégl mansion, Székesfehérvár
1877–1878 City Hall and theater, Szombathely
1878 Stefánia Yacht Club, Balatonfüred
1878–1879 Kégl palace, Budapest
1878–1880 St. Stephen Hospital, Budapest
1881–1883 Austro-Hungarian Bank, Szombathely
1882 Hungarian Parliament Building, Budapest
1882–1884 Erzsébet Hospital for the Red Cross, Budapest
1883–1884 Teachers' Training College, Budapest
1883–1884 Főreáliskola, Budapest
1884 Teachers' Training Institute, Budapest
1884 Scottish Abbey, Budapest
1884–1885 Nádasdy Mansion renovation and chapel, Nádasdladány
1884–1885 Batthyány palace, Budapest
1884–1886 Girls' Lyceum, Sopron
1884–1889 University Pathology Institute, Kolozsvár
1886 University Public Health Institute, Kolozsvár
1886 State Institute for Teaching Women, Budapest
1886–1887 Institute for Forensic Medicine, Budapest
1887–1889 Northeast Railroad Company apartment building, Budapest
1887–1889 Technical Training School and Museum, Budapest
1888–1890 Budapest Court House and Penitentiary, Budapest
1889–1890 commercial building, Budapest
1890 Kálmán Széll's mansion, Rátót
1890–1894 County hospital, Nitra
1891–1905 Buda Castle, Budapest, including the interiors
1891 Hauszmann house, Budapest
1890–1894 New York Palace, Budapest
1893 General Hospital, Kolozsvár
1893–1896 Royal Hungarian Palace of Justice, Budapest
1893–1897 Governor's Palace, Rijeka
1902–1909 Royal Joseph University, central building, Budapest
1904 City Hall, Nagyvárad
1910 National Theater, Budapest

Publications

A budapesti igazságügyi palota
A kir. József műegyetem új otthona A magyar királyi vár
Budapest városának építészeti fejlődésének története.