University of Pécs
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology University of Pécs
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology

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EDUCATIONAL CAREER:

CURRENT ACADEMIC ACTIVITY:

• Course Director in the Graduate Programmes of the Faculty (UP Neptun data):
  Design Studio 5., Design Studio 6., Complex Project (Bsc), Thesis (Bsc), Solar Decathlon – Design, Solar Decathlon - Practice
• Other instructed courses in graduate training (current information) (UP Neptun data):
  Complex Design 1. (Msc), Complex Design 4. (Msc)
• Supervisors of doctoral students
  At the University of Pécs, Marcel Breuer Architectural Doctoral School
• Supervised doctoral students (doktori.hu data):
  Magdolna HORVÁTH (DLA) (2012), Balázs FÜREDI (50%) (DLA) (2013), Renáta FOGAS (DLA)(2016), Ákos GYERGYÁK (DLA) (2018),

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES:

• 2019 - … Solar Decathlon Europe International Architectural Innovation Sustainability Competition: Professional management of sustainability research, mentoring and preparing the university team for the Solar Decathlon Europe competition. Professional organisation between researchers, academics, corporate partners and sponsors from different fields during the preparation/planning/implementation. Leading the architectural team together with Dr. Balázs Kósa.
• 2012 - … Cultural heritage protection in the Hungarian settlements of Transylvania. One of the main organisers of the programmes to explore and document the built and intangible heritage of the region of Énlaka and its 18 settlements, and to practice culture-based development of the region. So far, 7 summer university heritage conservation creative camps have been organised. 6 exhibitions have been organised in the mainland and in Transylvania. 1 school reconstruction supported by our projects (Énlaka). Several of our regional installations were built and are still in operation (Castellum Lookout, Székely Compass, Playground). A book was published as a summary of the heritage conservation work. Énlaka Cultural Heritage - Tracing our Folk Architecture
• 2006 - …. Cultural heritage protection in the Hungarian settlements of Croatia. Main organiser of the programmes documenting the architectural and spiritual heritage of the Hungarians of Drávaszög and Slavonia. So far, 8 summer university creative camps have been organised. 12 exhibitions in the mainland, Drávaszög, Slavonia, Vojvodina, Felvidék and Transylvania. We have supported the reconstruction of 7 country houses (Pélmonostor, Bodolya, Vörösmart, Krestalovac, Haraszti, Kórógy, Grubisno Polje). As a result of our work, the Baranyai Júlia Folk School in Pélmonostor was built and is still in operation. A book was published as a summary of the heritage conservation work. Left by ancestor.... Tracing our folk architecture / Drávaszög, Slavonia
• 2004 - …. ARCHITECTURE NOW Lecture series - main organiser. 72 events have been organised so far. The core of the professional programme consists of national and international lectures by architects, urban architects, interior designers and visual artists, presenting their own professional careers and works. This will be followed by a round-table discussion to open up a broader professional perspective on issues related to today's built culture, through a dialogue between the speaker and the guests of the event.

PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH PROJECTS:

• 2022 - … Preparing the establishment of the CLIMATE+ Research Group. A common objective for all EU Member States, set out in a regulation, is that the EU should become climate neutral by 2050, i.e. that its economic activities should not cause greenhouse gas emissions. Today's energy crisis, the difficulty of accessing fossil fuels in wartime, and the price of acquired energy resources are accelerating the societal need to green our energy supply and to manage the energy demand and supply of our homes in such a way that the additional energy input to buildings is the lowest possible compared to optimal use. This will require a step change in both the ecological and sustainability objectives of engineering thinking and the awareness of society. The CLIMATE+ Research Group aims, in line with the EU 2050 targets and today's energy crisis:
  • Develop climate-positive homes (C+Home) with a positive life-cycle energy balance based on green renewable energy sources. The planned prototype modular building systems, which will be developed into a product, will have an emission balance of zero for operation and close to zero for life cycle.
  • Development of environmentally friendly - energy positive building materials in the technological spirit of the Circular Economy:
    • Recycling of construction waste, development of new RE8 building materials in line with the CLEANTECH programme - technology developments
    • Development of new generation, natural-based building materials ÖKODESIGN
    • Development of new product lines by enhancing existing products
• 2021 - … CLEAN Technologies. The areas covered by my research work are the development of building materials/technologies/products whose creation and operation are at least environmentally neutral, i.e. with zero emissions
• 2019 - … Ecological sustainability in the built environment
  The research has reached its current stage of development during the Solar Decathlon competitions. The aim: Develop climate-positive homes (C+Home) with a positive life-cycle energy balance based on green renewable energy sources. The planned prototype modular building systems, which will be developed into a product, will have an emission balance of zero for operation and close to zero for life cycle.
• 2015 Developing teaching materials:
  With the titles ‘Sustainable Development Management / Built Environment’ educational materials financed by the ZENFE competition (2015).
• 2012 - ... Cultural heritage protection in the Hungarian settlements of Transylvania. The aim of the research is to explore and document the built and intangible heritage of Énlaka and the 18 surrounding settlements. The architectural heritage of the village of Énlaka is unique among the intact folk architectural monuments of the 19th and 20th centuries. More than 90% of the buildings in the settlement are intact and in their original form, while the painted wooden-plastered Unitarian church has a cassette-inscribed runic heritage that cannot be found anywhere else. The built heritage of the settlement would merit UNESCO protection on its own, like its counterparts in Raven Stone (H) and Torocko (Ro), but it also complements the outstanding heritage of the Dacia Limes, one of whose fortresses is located on the hillside above the village. It is an unconcealed aim of the research that these two sites should be placed together under World Heritage protection in the future.
• 2006 - …. Cultural heritage protection in the Hungarian settlements of Croatia. The research of the built and spiritual heritage of the Hungarians in Drávasög and Slavonia (Croatia) is part of a complex programme carried out by the University of Pécs' professors and students of architecture, ethnography and sociology. The aim of the research is to preserve and scientifically analyse the values of Hungarians living outside the borders of Hungary and to use the research results to maintain and strengthen the national identity of the dispersed Hungarians living in the diaspora.

ARCHITECTURAL CAREER:

NATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY, CONFERENCES:

(5 most significant from the last five years)

PROFESSIONAL AND PUBLIC AWARDS:

DESIGN PROJECTS:

(5 most significant from the last ten years)

WORKSHOPS, EXHIBITIONS, AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS:

(5 most significant from the last five years)

PROFESSIONAL PUBLIC LIFE, MEMBERSHIPS:

• Member of Chamber of Hungarian Architects (MÉK) architect (No: É/1-02-0633) since 2007
• Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), member of the public body, member of Scientific Committee for Architecture, Pécs Regional Committee, Committee for Construction, Architecture and Technical Training
• Member of the Presidium of the South-Transdanubian Chamber of Architects, since 2019 (https://mek.hu/index.php?link=Tisztujitas_a_Del_dunantuli_Epitesz_Kamaraban__DDEK_)
• Pollack Mihály Pollack Foundation for the Development of Higher Technical Education, Chairman of the Board of Trustees - since 2018
• Lajtorja - Cultural Association of Young Artists – since 2005

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT:

• GREEN Academy: Lectures open to society, active workshops, online knowledge transfer. Aiming at cross-professional general education on sustainable environment. Conscious social education.
• Space Poetry: Annual creative and heritage protection summer camp in Transylvania, between 2014 and 2017, aiming the development of the village Énlaka, by designing and constructing community spaces including a playground, a viewpoint, landart etc.
• Researchers' Nights: Annual scientific event aiming to break down the stereotypes regarding researchers and their position in the world of science and work.
• The New Normal campaign: A series of marketing activities in order to increase the number of female students in STEM majors and supporting the female students in our ongoing programmes, including mentoring programme, scholarship, research identifying problems and their sources, determining stereotypes and breakthrough possibilities, cooperation with national media, making short films.
• Experience Workshop: innovative education project for high-school students aiming to inspire them through artistic creation and inviting a creative dialogue between the mathematical and artistic way of looking at sciences.