| Pierre Szekely | |
| Birth Date: | 11 June 1923 |
| Birth Place: | Budapest, Hungary |
| Death Date: | 3 April 2001 (age 77) |
| Death Place: | Paris, France |
| Nationality: | Hungarian, French |
| Known For: | Sculptor |
| Spouse: | Vera Szekely |
Pierre Szekely (11 June 1923) was a Hungarian sculptor, architect and educator. In the 1940s, after surviving the holocaust, Szekely became a resident of France, and eventually became an avant-garde architect and international lecturer of art philosophy.
Szekely was a student of Hanna Dallos. After being interned in a Nazi concentration camp, he escaped to France in 1946, where by the 1950s he had developed a reputation for sculpture and architecture.[1] [2]
In 1975,[3] Szekely completed La Dame du Lac, which is an iconic climbing wall in the suburbs of Paris.[4] The Dame du Lac is considered to have played an instrumental role in the development of Parkour by David Belle,[5] made famous by early montages such as Speed Air Man (1997).