László Földes (born 1959) is ászlóFöa Hungarian architect.
He studied architecture at the Technical University of Budapest, where he received his degree in 1985. After that he held a scholarship at the Helsinki University of Technology. One year later, in 1989 he returned to Finland to work in the Kari Järvinen-Timo Airas architect studio. He founded his own architectural firm in 1994 in Budapest.
His most important works include the Forest School in Visegrád (with Gábor Turányi), the gymnasium of Toldy High School located next to the slope of Buda Castle, W.E.T. Innovation Center in Pilisszentiván, and three dwelling houses in Maassluis, the Netherlands. First time in the world he built in his dwelling house at Szilas-brook, Budapest the Red dot design award-winner "light transmitting concrete" (LiTraCon) invented by a young Hungarian architect, Áron Losonczi.
He was elected to UIA (International Union of Architects) Council on the General Assembly held in Turin, Italy, July 2008.
Awards
1985 Diploma Prize, Apartment building, Király Street, Budapest
1997 Pro Architectura Award (Forest School in Visegrád) 2004 Toldy 150 emlékérem, (Toldy Gimnázium tornaterme) 2004 Pro Architectura Award (WET Innovation Center, Pilisszentiván (now: Gentherm Hungary Kft.) 2005 Fair Play Award, NOC of Hungary, "Action Category", Toldy High School 2005 Media Architecture Award (Dwelling house + light - transmitting concrete)) 2006 Ybl Miklós Award 2011 "House of the Year 2011", (House with steel porch, Nagykovácsi)
Design competitions
1999 3 houses – Maassluis, Netherlands – invited competition - I. place
2004 High Court of Justice and Attorney General's Office – Győr - national competition - II. place 2006 Reformatic Church, Nagykovácsi- invited competition – II. place 2006 Paks, Erzsébet Hotel - invited competition – shared I. place 2007 Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Budapest, Vigadó Street - invited competition- II. place 2008 Balatonalmádi Health Center - invited competition – I. place 2009 Kemenes Vulcanopark Visitor Center, Celldömölk - open competition - I. place 2010 Enlargement of National Museum, national competition - III. place 2010 Pestszentimre, Kindergarten, national competition - I. place
Exhibitions
1996 Piran, Piran days of architecture, Forest School in Visegrád
2002 Piran, Piran days of architecture, WET Innovation Center
2003 Budapest, Műcsarnok, „Közben” 2004 London, RIBA, „Hungarian Architecture Today”, WET Innovation Center 2004 Glasgow, Lighthouse „Hungarian Architecture Today”, WET Innovation Center 2004 Leiden, Freiburg, Graz, Kolozsvár, Tranzit 15 traveling exhibition, FL interview, videoinstallation 2005 Berlin, DAZ, „Emerging Identities! East”, Gym of Toldy High School Gym 2006 Budapest Historical Museum, Three centuries of the Györgyi-Giergl Families 2006 Budapest, N&n Galéria, Lane schedule, independent exhibition 2010 Budapest, Műcsarnok, Modellfest 2013 Piran, Piran days of architecture, Kemenes Volcanopark 2014 Budapest, Műcsarnok, I. Architectural National Salon; Sauflon, Kemenes Volcanopark