Ignác Alpár was a Hungarian

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 architect.

Career

Alpár began his career as a stonemason, then worked under architect Alajos Hauszmann

Alajos Hauszmann

Hauszmann Alajos was an Austro-Hungarian architect, professor, and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.-Life:...

. After completing formal studies in Berlin

Berlin

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, he returned to Budapest

Budapest

Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...

 to work under Imre Steindl

Imre Steindl

Imre Steindl was a Hungarian architect.- Biography :He graduated at the Technical University of Budapest and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He was a teacher of the Budapest Technical University from 1869...

 and Hauszmann again. He began independent practice in 1890, working mainly on public projects in a historicist, eclectic style. The most well known of these is the so-called Vajdahunyad Castle

Vajdahunyad Castle

Vajdahunyad Castle, or Vajdahunyad-vár, is a castle in City Park, Budapest, Hungary, that was built between 1896 and 1908, designed by Ignác Alpár...

 built for the millenary celebrations in 1896, which incorporated architectural styles practised in Hungary from the Middle Ages to the Baroque period.

Buildings

• Town halls: Sighişoara
  Sighisoara
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  , Cluj
  Cluj-Napoca
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  , Deva
  Deva, Romania
  Deva is a city in Romania, in the historical region of Transylvania, on the left bank of the Mureș River. It is the capital of Hunedoara County.-Name:...
  
  , Nyíregyháza
  Nyíregyháza
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  , etc.
• Colleges: Eotvos College
• Churches: Sighişoara Reformed Church, Braşov
  Brasov
  Brașov is a city in Romania and the capital of Brașov County.According to the last Romanian census, from 2002, there were 284,596 people living within the city of Brașov, making it the 8th most populated city in Romania....
  
   Reformed Church (demolished 1964)
• Baths: Băile Herculane
  Baile Herculane
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• Theatres: Košice
  Košice
  Košice is a city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary...
  
  
• Banks: Hungarian National Bank, Budapest (1902–05); Hungarian National Trade Bank (long time functioned as the building of the Ministry of Home Affairs); General Hungarian Credit Bank (currently the building of the Ministry of Finance); First Hungarian Savings Bank (currently the building of the Treasury)
• Former Stock Exchange building, Budapest (long time housed the Hungarian National Television)

Legacy

• In 1958 the Ignác Alpár memorial prize was established by the Society of Architects, which is awarded annually for significant achievements in building.
• There is a statue of Alpár in front of the Vajdahunyad castle by Ede Telcs. He is depicted wearing the robes of a master architect from the Middle Ages.