CODEX LINEARUM

About the Book

Architectural design is, even in its embryonic stage, a thought-condenser process. Most probably, we can not know these thoughts, but certainly could feel them! Pending from the intensity of the heat - our passion - of the distillation phase, from the patience and the precision of this translating act - from spirit to matter -, our design might acquire the most coveted quality, timelessness!

About the Author

Dr. Peter Magyar, a registered chief-architect in Hungary and in Europe, came to K-State from Florida Atlantic University in Fort Lauderdale where he was the founding director of the School of Architecture from 1996 to 2007. Previously he was head of the Department of Architecture at The Pennsylvania State University, between 1989 and 1996. He has also held faculty positions at the Technical University of Budapest, Hungary; Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria; Auburn University (as the Burlington Distinguished Professor); the University of Cincinnati; the University of Monterrey, Mexico; and was a guest professor at the Royal Academy of Arts in Copenhagen, Denmark. From 1999 onward, he was invited as guest critic to the Dessau Institute of Architecture at the Bauhaus.