Armuth Miklós - Lőrinczi Zsuzsa (szerk.): A Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem Történeti Campusa (Budapest, 2023)
CZIGLER Győző élete és munkássága - The Life and CEuvre of Győző CZIGLER Kalmár Miklós
AZ ELÖLJÁRÓSÁG EPULETENEK RESZLETE, BUDAPEST, IX. KÉR., BAKÁTS TÉR 14., 1884 DETAIL OF THE FACADE, MUNICIPAL BUILDING, BUDAPEST, DISTRICT IX, BAKÁTS SQUARE NO. 14, 1884 Vienna-based Fine Arts Academy. Prevailing the architecture of Vienna back in those days, the so-called "strenge historismus" idealised the purity of style, and evolved as a local variety of eclecticism within the slowly developing Historicism being driven by the ambition to keep a well-balanced harmony between the monumental large-scale building masses and the already familiar historical forms and details. Famous architects representing this trend were also lecturers at the Academy where they taught architectural styles strictly and thoroughly. With the Classicist, medieval or Renaissance forms chosen they wished to meet the requirements defined in specific architectural tasks, and integrated them even if the dimensions of the buildings they designed made it rather difficult. Students at the Academy had the opportunity to master neoclassic architecture with absolute certainty, and this may have been the reason why Czigler insisted on Historicism although the late-19th century tastes came to favour other styles. After the death of his father in 1872, Győző Czigler faced the tasks of having to finish the projects he had left behind, such as the restoration of the Rákócz Castle in Borosjenő (today: Ineu, Romania], Having completed these jobs, he went on a two-year study tour all over Europe visiting Austria, Germany, Belgium, England, France, Italy and Greece, also reaching as far as Constantinople, Asia Minor. Meanwhile he visited the world exhibition of 1873 in Vienna among others. This way he gained personal experience of largescale contemporary constructions and the effects of classical, medieval, Byzantine and Renaissance buildings that enriched the knowledge he had already acquired through his studies. Meanwhile he came to know the most modern building technologies too. In 1874- Czigler settled down in Budapest and found employment in the municipal architects office. Fie lived alone in the Köztelek (“Common Site") tenement house in Üllői Street. In 1878 he participated in the Bosnian waras a lieutenant. Besides his activities as an architect, from 1887 on he also worked as a lecturer at the Department of Ancient Architecture (part of the Technical University, Budapest). In this capacity he followed the guidelines of TheophilFlansen, his former master in Vienna. Back in those days his colleague Alajos Hauszmann (1847-1926) taught modern architecture whilst Imre Steindl (1839-1902) was the lecturer of medieval architecture at the same university. Designing the facades of buildings of ever growing scale meant a complex task for architects keeping to stylistic rules. Academic training idealised three-storey facades of Renaissance palaces for urban buildings whereas the clients had already required four- and five-storey developments. Professionals had to tackle such contradictions relying upon their own architectural sense. Czigler designed three tenement houses for the boulevards in Budapest: one in Teréz (District VI, Teréz Boulevard. No. 43/b, 1878)
