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Stefan/Istvan Buzás (1915 - 2008)

Stefan Buzás was born in Tapolca, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary) in 1915 and his family moved to Vienna, Austria, during his childhood. He began studies at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna and then, after migrating to the UK in 1938, studied at the Architectural Association and received their diploma in 1940. He worked for G A Jellicoe and Miss J Lebedrer (?), both Fellows of RIBA.

 

Between 1943 and 1948 he worked as a teacher at Kingston School of Architecture as well as practising with its Head, Eric Brown. In March 1948 he was naturalised as a British citizen. In 1948 he joined fellow Architectural Association alumni James Cubitt, R M Maitland and T W Atkinson to form James Cubitt & Partners. The firm worked on projects in Australia, Malaya and the Middle East as well as housing, restaurants, offices and part of the Dome of Discovery at the Festival of Britain. Buzás also designed his family home at Ham Common, near Richmond. The home was thought to be the first open-plan home anywhere in the UK.

Coloured pencil drawing of a business shop frontage. It is a travel association and there are refereces to 1951 and the Festival of Britain in the windows

Design for a temporary shop window display to promote the Festival of Britain (1951). RIBA Collections

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In 1965 Buzás founded a twenty-year partnership with Alan Irvine, operating as Buzás and Irvine. Their commissions included museum interiors, the RIBA’s Heinz gallery, and work on York Minster and Norwich and Winchester cathedrals. Buzás was a member of the Architectural Association, a Fellow of the Society of Industrial Artists and a Royal Designer for Industry. He died in London on the 2 October 2008.

 

Bibliographical References

  • ‘Exhibition stand’, Architects' Journal, 1949 Feb. 24, p. 190

  • ‘Standard Bank, West End branch, Northumberland Avenue, W.C.2’, Interior Design & Contract Furnishing, 1966 Mar., p. 138-147

  • ‘Standard Bank, West End branch, Northumberland Avenue, W.C.2’, Architectural Review, 1966 May, p. 345-348

  • ‘Standard Bank, West End branch, Northumberland Avenue, W.C.2’, Architect & Building News, 1967 Jan. 1, p. 152-154

  • ‘Three recent jewellery shops, London’, Architectural Review, 1968 Apr., p. 282-285

  • ‘Conference suite, International Sugar Organisation, Haymarket, London, W. 1’, Architectural Review, 1971 Apr., p. 237-242

  • ‘RIBA Drawings Collection and Heinz Gallery, 21 Portman Square, London Borough of Westminster’, Architects' Journal, 1972 May 10, p. 1008-1009

  • ‘RIBA Drawings Collection and Heinz Gallery, 21 Portman Square, London Borough of Westminster’, Country Life, 1972 May 11, p. 1146-1147

  • ‘RIBA Drawings Collection and Heinz Gallery, 21 Portman Square, London W1H 9HF’, New Society, 1972 May 25, no. 504, p. 419-420

  • ‘Gallery for RIBA Drawings Collection, Portman Square, London Borough of Westminster’, Architectural Review, 1972 June, p. 365-367

  • ‘Designing the Heinz Gallery, RIBA Drawings Collection, Portman Square, London Borough of Westminster’, RIBA Journal, vol. 79, no. 7, 1972 July, p. 288-290

  • ‘Architecture in embryo: RIBA Drawings Collection, Portman Square, London Borough of Westminster’, Design(London), 1972 July, p. 44-47

  • ‘RIBA Drawings Collection and Heinz Gallery, 21 Portman Square, London W1H 9HF’, Museums Journal, 1972 Sept., p. 49-51

  • ‘Special office areas, Sloane Street, Chelsea, London’, Architectural Review, vol. 153, no. 912, 1973 Feb., p. 103-105

  • ‘Glass showroom, Waterford, Ireland’, Architectural Review, vol. 154, no. 918, 1973 Aug., p. 91-94

  • ‘Two cathedral treasuries. 1, Treasury at Norwich Cathedral. 2, Treasury at Winchester Cathedral’, Architectural Review, vol. 154, no. 921, 1973 Nov., p. 305-310

  • ‘Museums - a portfolio of design for display: displaying half-forgotten treasures’, Architectural Record, vol. 156, no. 5 (10), 1974 Oct., p. 100-101

  • ‘Displaying and preserving architectural archives’, Architectural Record, vol. 157, no. 4, 1975 Apr., p. 91-94

  • ‘Displays for cathedral treasures by Stefan Buzas & Alan Irvine: Norwich treasury and Winchester cathedral treasury’, Light & Lighting & Environmental Design, vol. 68, no. 5, 1975 Sept./Oct., p. 214-215

  • ‘Palace interiors, Riyadh’, RIBA Journal, vol. 83, no. 6, 1976 June, p. 249

  • ‘RIBA Drawings Collection and Heinz Gallery, 21 Portman Square, London W1H 9HF’, RIBA Journal, 1976 Feb., p. 79

  • ‘Harrow School new museum and art gallery’, RIBA Journal, vol. 83, no. 11, 1976 Nov., p. 455

  • ‘Two cathedral treasuries: treasury, Chichester Cathedral’, Architectural Review, vol. 160, no. 958, 1976 Dec., p. 363-366

  • ‘Treasury at Chichester Cathedral’, Light & Lighting & Environmental Design, vol. 70, no. 5, 1977 Sept./Oct., p. 195

  • ‘New museum and art gallery, Harrow School’, Light & Lighting & Environmental Design, vol. 70, no. 5, 1977 Sept./Oct., p. 197

  • Charlotte Benton, A Different World : Émigré Architects in Britain 1928-1958 (RIBA Heinz Gallery, 1995)

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RIBA Collections References​

  • Designs for D.H. Evans, Oxford Street, London

    • SC89/1(1-3)​

  • Competition design for the Vertical Feature, Festival of Britain, London

    • SC89/3(1-2)​

  • Design for a temporary shop window display to promote the Festival of Britain

    • SB91/5

  • Designs for interior of 'Dome of Discovery', Festival of Britain

    • SC89/2(1,3-4,6-13), FRA/BUZA/1(1-2)​

  • Design for a tourist office, Piccadilly, London

    • SC89/4(1-2)​

  • Design for a shoe shop, Edgware Road/Harrowby Street, London

    • SC89/5​

  • RIBA/Heinz Gallery, 21 Portman Square, London, for the Royal Institute of British Architects Drawings Collection

    • [PA958/1(1-13)]

    • 28722

    • BM/CUL/35/A

    • RIBA14/1-RIBA14/13

    • AP623/1-AP623/7

    • AP625/249-AP625/260​

  • Vasa shop for Finmar in Knightsbridge, London

    • 35584-35584/3​

  • Society of Industrial Artists exhibition, De La Rue House, Regent Street, London

    • 35585-35585/1​

  • Luxury suite, QE2

    • 41330/86-41330/87​

  • Offices, South Australia House, Strand, London

    • AIN587-AIN589​

  • House at Ham Common, Richmond, London

    • AP716/157-AP716/159

    • APON3779-APON3785

    • CWN 55W/6156-6157​

  • Cathedral Treasury, Norwich Cathedral

    • AP510/35

    • AP499/144-AP499/146​

  • J Henry Schroeder Wragg & Co building, City of London

    • AP371/4-AP371/19​

  • International Sugar Organisation offices, Haymarket, London

    • AP351/69-AP351/88​

  • Bovis offices, Kensington & Chelsea, London

    • AP344/157-AP344/165

  •  Conference Suite, Haymarket, London

    • AP464/1-AP464/10​

  • Current Affairs Exhibition 1947, Charing Cross Station, London

    • AP114/105​

  • Design for stand for Zinc Development Association, Building Exhibition 1949, Olympia, London

    • AP627/64​

  • Rumanian Art Treasures, exhibition, Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh

    • AP628/71-AP628/72, AP628/181-AP628/183, AP628/186​

  • Banking Premises and Offices for J. Henry Schroder Wagg, 120 Cheapside, London

    • 26574-26574/16, AISC160-AISC176​

  • Exhibition of Gerda Flockinger Jewellery / Sam Herman Glass, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

    • AP628/126-AP628/129​

  • International Ceramics exhibition, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

    • AP628/120-AP628/125​

  • Exhibition of the art from 'The Age of Charles I', Tate Gallery, London

    • AP628/44​

  • Gallery for Old Master Drawings, Windsor Castle

    • LS 26592-26594/24

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