Dániel Kovács

Dániel Kovács

DÁNIEL KOVÁCS (Dunaújváros,1983), architecture historian, writer. In 2007-2013 he was editor and editor-in-chief of the architecture and design magazine hg.hu. From 2013 he worked in the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, and in 2014-2015 at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. Since 2015 he has been working as programme director at the Collegium Hungaricum in Berlin. He published several articles on historical and contemporary architecture, and two monographs: Budapest Art Nouveau (2012) and Budapest Art Deco (2015).

WORLD LANGUAGE WITH AN ACCENT – ART DECO IN CENTRAL EUROPE

As a global phenomenon, Art Deco is principally known for representativeness. With the advent of Art Deco in the 1930s glass, chrome, mirror, mahogany, and marble were no more the privilege of a certain elite: they became available for the middle class. In this sense, Art Deco is a symbol