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HAUSZMANN Alajos élete és munkássága - The Life and CEuvre of Alajos HAUSZMANN Kalmár Miklós - Kiss Zsuzsanna Emília

In 1867, after his first academic year in Berlin, Hauszmannand many other young students were delegated by the Minister of Trade and Commerce to visit the world exhibition in Paris. During his four-week stay there he had the opportunity to see several French towns as well as castles along the valley of the Loire. Returning to Berlin, he continued his studies and simultaneously he found employment with architect August Orth. After his graduation from the Bauakademie Szkalnitzky offered him a position at the Technical University as an assistant.

Hauszmann got married in 1876. Two children, Jenő and Gizella were born from this wedlock. His daughter married Dezső Hültl architect and lecturer at the Technical University. In 1872, when Antal Szkalnitzky resigned from his position as a lecturer of the university due to his illness, Hauszmann - then only 25 of age - was appointed "regular and full-time lecturer" at the department of public projects and architecture in the Royal Hungarian Joseph Technical University. He lectured on tectonics, antique and Renaissance architectural history, designing public buildings and private housing, colour

studies and interior architecture. He wrote the university textbook on Tectonics based on his experiences in Berlin. Imre Steindl and János Schnédár were his colleagues from this time on, while he was assisted by Ignác Alpár (Schöckl) and Flóris Korb.

Architects in the city were most frequently employed in tenement house projects. Hauszmann made such designs when commissioned by Antal Tüköry [Spiegel) to build a tenement house in 1870 on a site bordered by Akadémia, Arany János and Tükör (today: Tüköry) Streets. This period saw the advance of the Neo-Renaissance style that came to define the architecture of Buda and Pest. When choosing this style for his design, Hauszmann was deeply influenced by his journeys in Berlin and Italy. After the completion of this house, he actually moved in it as a tenant of an apartment on the third storey.

In 1870 Hauszmann won the contest forthe designs of the kiosk in Erzsébet Square. The building which had been erected in 1872-1873 in Neo-Renaissance style was extended by an ironframe glazed conservatory in 1896. It was pulled down in 1960.

The latter half of the 20th century saw the construction of the boulevards in Pest. In 1872 the Ministry of Religion and General Education published a design