László Mester de Parajd

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László Mester de Parajd (born January 18, 1949 in Budapest ) is a French architect of Hungarian origin.

Life

László Mester de Parajd's family originally came from Transylvania ; like his mother, he was born in Budapest. His brother is the architect Gábor Mester de Parajd . The family left Hungary in 1957 and came to Paris via Vienna in 1958 .

László Mester de Parajd initially studied mathematics for two years until he began studying architecture in 1970. During the holidays he went on extensive trips, which took him to Niger for the first time in 1971 . As a diploma thesis at the end of his studies, he designed a leprosy , for which he spent another three months in the African country in 1975. In 1977 he finally moved to Niger with his wife when the French Ministry of Cooperation sent him to work in the Nigerien Ministry of Construction.

Mester de Parajd planned the new building of the Office Nigérien de l'Energie Solaire (ONERSOL), a research institute for solar energy in the capital Niamey . The building was completed in 1981 and was shortlisted for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture . With its inclusion of forms and materials from the building tradition of Niger, the ONERSOL building is already typical of the architect's broader style. In the 1980s he designed other representative buildings in Niger, such as the building of the Directorate for Literacy in Niamey (1981), the Palace of Justice in Agadez (1982), the town hall in Tahoua (1984) and the Court of Appeal in Niamey (1985). Mester de Parajd later returned to France, where he became chief engineer of the Agence française de développement in 2000 .

In 2014 he was awarded the Salon d'Automne Architects Prize . László Mester de Parajd also worked as Honorary Consul of Hungary in Rouen and as President of the Hungarian Evangelical Church in France. He is a member of the Société des Africanistes .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Frida Tibai, Laura Veres: Kultúrák között - Egy magyar építész Észak-Afrikában. Criticism esettanulmány Parajdi Mester László munkásságáról. (PDF) Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2017, pp. 9 and 39 , accessed on December 7, 2017 (Hungarian).
  2. ↑ Le Carnet du jour . In: Le Figaro . April 22, 2015, p. 13 ( lefigaro.fr [PDF; accessed December 7, 2017]).
  3. ^ A b Corinne Mester de Parajd, László Mester de Parajd: Regards sur l'habitat traditionnel au Niger . Editions Créer, Nonette 1988, p. 7-8 .
  4. ↑ Information on László Mester de Parajd in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on December 7, 2017.
  5. ^ Solar Energy Research Center. Niamey, Niger. In: Archnet. Accessed December 7, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Laszlo Mester de Parajd. Société des Africanistes, accessed December 7, 2017 (French).
  7. ^ Prix ​​2014. Association les Amis du salon d'Automne de Paris, accessed December 7, 2017 (French).
  8. ↑ Qui sommes nous? Balassi Institute Paris, accessed December 7, 2017 (French).
  9. ↑ Membres de la Société des Africanistes. Société des Africanistes, accessed December 7, 2017 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Mester de Parajd, László
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French architect of Hungarian origin
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest