Nationality : Hungarian, Slovakian
Tel.: 0036 30 4599368
Qualification: MSc Architect
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-varga-8a493b136/
"ARS POETICA"
Due to the intensive territory, energy and food needs caused by the inevitable population growth, the importance of the balance between the built and natural environment is decreasing. This balance must be restored through conscious methods, humble and modest planning with a nature integrated into buildings,living spaces based on community cohesion and public spaces based on a new social structure. These spaces need to be created that reinforce the sense of 'natural belonging' that is increasingly lost. For the healthy balance and protection of our environment, we architects have a major responsability…
WORK EXPERIENCE
TSPC Group – Architect designer
May 2020 - ongoing / Budapest, Berlin, Munich
• International studio based in Hungary,Germany,Croatia,Slovakia,Hong Kong and Belgium
• Designing large scale projects from schematic concept phase up to construction documents
(Bath comlexes, market, student dormitories, schools, visitor centre, hospitals)
• Urban spatial planning – parks, public spaces
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MG studio – Hungary – Junior Architect
December 2019 - May 2020 / Budapest
• Designing mid-scale projects (St.Kozma Hospital expansion and Hungarian Science Academy HQ renovation with neo-renaissance principles)
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Istud Design – Italy – Intern
July 2018 - October 2018 / Palermo
• Urban concept proposal ,creating a new city center promenade with pavilions. Spatial connection between the city center and port of Palermo
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Od’a Officina d’architettura – Italy – Intern
May 2017 - October 2017 / Naples
• „Borgo di Ischia ponte” competition .Collaboration with architects, Riccardo Dalisi, Alfonso Femia and Giovanni Aurino to rethink alternative development concepts through experimental urban design interventions in seaside of Ischia
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Obicua Architects– Italy – Intern
July 2016 - October 2016 / Rome
• Twin-tower concept plan in Kuala Lumpur and processing concept designs with arch.Massimiliano Brugia
EDUCATION
PTE University, Faculty of Architecture, Hungary
2017-2019
• GPA = 4,67 / 5,00 – Overall classification of the qualification = Excellent grade,Cum Laude
• Diploma award for excellent thesis work and state exams.
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La Sapienza University of Rome , Faculty of Architecture, Italy
2018-2019
• Erasmus Scolarship Programme
• Laboratorio sintesi in progettazione architettonica
• Progettazione tecnologica per la riqualificazione architettonica
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Budapest University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture, Hungary
2013-2017
• Engineering courses
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Budapest Student Association of Architecture (Építész Szakkollégium) and EASA Hungary
2014-2019
• BSSA is an advanced college for architecture students and the official partner of European
Architecture Student Assembly (EASA) based in Budapest
• Compulsory additional courses about the fringes of architecture
• An interdisciplinary studio focused in architectural education, and community development through experimental design approaches, organizing architectural events, workshops.
• EASA offers a unique framework for education, accommodating a non institutionalised way of
teaching, learning and exchange.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Chamber of Hungarian Architects
March 2022 - ongoing
• Registered architect with state design authority.
• Membership no. : É -12-0181
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HuGBC – Hungarian Green Building Council
April 2021- ongoing
• Individual membership since may 2022
• Representing professional interests in current issues aimed at achieving a sustainable built environment
• LEED and WELL certification
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Alumnus of Budapest Student Association of Architecture
July 2019 - ongoing
• Supporting the work of BSSA students as an alumni member.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES , WORKSHOPS & CONFERENCES
Lecturer - 5th International Summer School Urban Mobility – Palermo,Italy
September 2018
• The importance of sustainability as a conceptual aspect in the development of urban
infrastructure
• Presentations about urban problems of the city center of Palermo, especially in the port area, and possible solutions, held during my internship
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EUCA Conference and workshop - Message to Europeans 3.0 – Rome,Italy
October 2018
• European University College Association
• The aspects of European integration of the different fields of expertise and its rethinking
• Given Europe’s present challenges, as seen in the rise of populism, economic inequality, voters’ disengagement, and migration crisis.
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Budapest Student Association of Architecture (Építész Szakkollégium-BSAA)
2015-2018
• Mentor and Coordinator of European University College Association (EUCA) affairs
• Student leader and board member of BSAA (2015-2017)
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Lecturer – Night of Architecture conference – Bratislava,Slovakia
June 2016
• Focus on the meaning of materiality and light in architecture
Organizing several workshops and courses by BSAA – Budapest
• More info in our page: http://www.eszak.org.hu/hu/fooldal
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Visegrad Fund Research Project & Workshop - „Ideal Havirov” – Havirov,Czech R.
November 2014
• Research project to decrease the depreciation processes of some of the city's post-socialist area, its functional redesign / expansion in order to create a new community living space based on a welfare
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„My Culture, Your Culture, Our Culture” workshop – Tismana, Romania
august 2013
• Workshop on integrating individual national arts and cultural differences into a global but
unique art. Art has a unique language: sense and emotion, without spoken languages.
• Instructor: Vincenzo Bianchi , sculptor, professor
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Marcel Breuer award
July 2019
• Hungarian degree award for excellent thesis work and final state exams.
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Erasmus + study scolarship
October 2018 – March 2019
• 6 months study scholarship for attending courses of Sapienza
• Participation by university competition
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Erasmus + summer scholarships – Italy
2016, 2017, 2018
• 3-5 months grant for internship programmes
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Excellent Student Scholarship of Hungarian State : 6-year scholarship to obtain a master degree (2013-2019)
DESIGN AFFINITY
Renovation 7/10
Architecture 10/10
Landscape 6/10
Urban 9/10
BIM/Technical 8/10
Interior 7/10
PUBLICATIONS
Professional article: architectural review
• Egy korszak eltűnő emlékeinek árnyékában: Az Istropolis átalakítása: p. online (2022)
Link:
1. https://epiteszforum.hu/egy-korszak-eltuno-emlekeinek-arnyekaban--az-istropoliseltunese
Abstract:
(Title: In the shadow of the disappearing memories of socialist era - The orphaned fate
of socialist late modern architecture
• Why public opinion is so dismissive of socialist architectural value
• Criticism on the socialist late modern architectural design and urban interventions of Central Europe
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