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PECZ Samu élete és munkássága - The Life and CEuvre of Samu PECZ Gy. Balogh Ágnes

UNITÁRIUS TEMPLOM ES BERHAZ, BUDAPEST V. KÉR., NAGY IGNÁC UTCA A., 1 889-1 890

UNITARIAN CHURCH AND TENEMENT HOUSE BUDAPEST, DISTRICT V,

NAGY IGNÁC STREET, NO. A, 1 889-1890

worked for Hauszmann's team then, participated in this project: he drew the designs of both the Neo-Romanesque Knights' Hall and the Half of Ancestors. It was his concept that Saint Helen's Catholic church in Nádasdladány was built in 1884-1885 to a historicizing, Revivalist Gothic style.

In 1884 Pecz won a competition with his concept of the Calvinist church in Dévaványa, which was finally built after someone else's designs. As an irony of fate, it was him who a few years later wrote an expert assessment on the vaulting of the same building which was on the verge of collapse by then.

In 1885 Pecz was commissioned to design the Calvinist church in Kossuth Street, Debrecen, which was consecrated in 1888.

In the very same year the architect summarized and published his views on Protestant ecclesiology in the Journal of the Association of Hungarian Engineers and Architects titled On the Construction of Protestant Churches, apropos of the new Calvinist church in Debrecen with its detailed description. For this study, Pecz received the first Holtán Prize from the Association in 1888.

In 1885 Pecz started working on the designs of the church and tenement house of the Unitarian church in Budapest in the former Koháry Street. Both buildings were built in 1889-1890 based on revised designs that Pecz made himself. According to the original large-scale plan, the church would have been built on the side of the site along Alkotmány Street, but it was finally erected on the side along Koháry (today: Nagy Ignác] Street due to financial reasons.

Along with Sándor Aigner and Imre Steindl, Samu Pecz won one of the three first prizes in the competition inviting designs for the parish church of Erzsébetváros (today: Saint Elizabeth of the Árpád Dynasty Parish Church) in Budapest in 1890. However, the municipal general assembly decided to have the building constructed after designs by Steindl. What Pecz had in mind was a church in early Gothic style with a central plan based on a regular hexagon consistently applying this logic of organisation both in the interior and exterior design.

Pecz won another first prize in 1891 with his designs submitted for the competition published by the Calvinist congregation in Buda. The Calvinist church (today: Buda Calvinist Church] in Szilágyi Dezső (formerly: Fazekas) Square on the Buda side of the capitalwas built based on these with minor amendments between 1892 and 1896 as the most important ecclesiastic building ever designed by Pecz. When working on