Mihály Párkányi

Finished Technical University, Budapest, Faculty of Architecture, Graduated 1948. Later on in 1952-1954 finished further two years at the Budapest Lorand Eötvös University of Sciences, as historian. 1948-50 Designer at the Building Research Institute (ÉTI) Type-planning section 1950-51 Secretary of the Scientific Society for Building (Federation of Technical and Scientific Societies.) 1951-55 Chief engineer at the Secretariat of the Architectural Council, and Assiant, later lecturer at the Technical University of Budapest, Faculty of Architecture 1955-57 Designer at the Office for Planning Residential and Communal Buildings (LAKÓTERV), Budapest 1958-60 Deputy director at the Institute for Restoration of Historical Monuments, Budapest 1961-62 Assistant at the London County Council, Housing Department 1963-69 Head of Research and Development Group, Technical Department, LAKÓTERV Budapest 1970-91 Senior Principal Scientific Officer. Technical University; Budapest; Faculty of Architecture 1974-91 University Professor at the Technical University of Budapest; Faculty of Architecture

From 1962 on the following themes: Modular coordination; Double coordination: Specific questions of automation in building industry; Tissue structures: theory and practice of open system industrialization; Specific problems of mass-housing in the developing countries. Author a number of publications, Works published in English: The inherent contradictions of the closed systems of prefabrication and the future trends of evolution. Towards Industrialized Building. Proceedings of the third CIB Congress, Copenhagen 1965. Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam 1966. pp. 295–296. Tissue structures. Vol. I. Modular variations on a span-indifferent structural system. LAKÓTERV, Budapest, 1967. 120 pages Tissue structures. Vol. II. Blind Manufacture. An approach to automation through double coordination. LAKÓTERV, Budapest, 1967. 80 pages Tissue structures, Vol. III. Blind manufacture II. An adaptation of the Gutenberg principle to building industry. LAKÓTERV. Budapest 1969. 206 pages Tissue structures: An approach to solving problems of masshousing in the developing countries, Scientific World. 1969 Some technological and economic aspects of changing the structure of building industry in developing countries. LAKÓTERV July 1969. 30 pages