Flóris Korb Explained

Flóris Korb
Nationality:	Hungarian
Birth Name:	Flóris Nándor Korb
Birth Date:	1860 4, df=yes
Birth Place:	Kecskemét, Habsburg Empire
Death Place:	Budapest, Hungary
Alma Mater:	TU Berlin, Berlin

Flóris Korb (born as Flóris Nándor Korb, Kecskemét, 7 April 1860 – Budapest, 16 September 1930) was a Hungarian architect.^[1]

Career

After finishing his studies in Berlin, he returned to Budapest to work under Alajos Hauszmann for fourteen years, during which time he took part in designing the New York Palace. In 1893 he entered into a partnership with Kálmán Giergl which resulted in many important commissions in the developing capital. Korb was awarded with the Greguss prize in 1924 and was admitted into the Royal Institute of British of Architects.^[1]

Works

• New York Palace, with Hauszmann & Giergl (1891–95)
• Croatian Art Pavilion at the Millennium Exhibition in Budapest (1896), with Giergl^[2]
• Klotild Palaces, Budapest (1899–1902)
• Kiraly Apartments, Budapest (1900–01)
• Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest (1904–07)
• Clinic buildings, Mari and Ulloi ut, Budapest
• Central University Library of Cluj-Napoca (w. Kálmán Giergl, 1904–1909)
• Commercial Savings and Insurance Bank (today Press Building), Kecskemét (1909–12)
• Mint Building, Budapest
• Debrecen University, (1914–30)
• Zielinski Water Tower, Szeged (1903–04)

Notes and References

1. http://mek.oszk.hu/00300/00355/html/index.html Korb Flóris
2. Damjanovic. Dragan. Croatian Pavilions at the 1896 Millennium Exhibition in Budapest, in: Ephemeral Architecture in Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and 21st Centuries, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2015, 51–74. en.