Sydney's Forgotten European Design Legacy
Hungarian architect George Reves (nee Revesz) (1910–2004) graduated from the Royal Joseph Technical University, Budapest. He worked in Paris for modernist Auguste Perret before returning to Budapest in 1934 to begin his own practice, designing a number of houses and apartment buildings. Following the German annexation of Austria, Reves fled Vienna, arriving in Australia in…
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Ernst Korner (1888-1966) was born in Czechoslovakia and studied architecture in Vienna. He then worked in Sweden and Prague before establishing a successful practice in the city of Ostrava, in the north-east of Czechoslovakia. In 1928 Korner designed the Rix department store in Ostrava, a radical design following strict functionalist principles. With strong white horizontal…
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The Other Moderns 