“We Knew It Right Away: This Was No Easy Job” – Eva Hollo Vecsei’s Life and Work from Socialist Hungary to Montréal’s Megastructures

Eva Hollo Vecsei (1930), a pioneering Hungarian architect who emigrated to Canada in 1956, became a significant figure in Québec’s modern architecture. Despite her achievements, her contributions remain largely unknown in Europe. This paper offers a biographical analysis of her modernist architectural oeuvre, initially shaped in Hungary under socialist-realist mandates before 1956, and later in […]

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Architektúra & urbanizmus
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2025-07-25
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https://doi.org/10.31577/archandurb.2025.59.1-2.4
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French Historical and Cultural Studies
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“We Knew It Right Away: This Was No Easy Job” – Eva Hollo Vecsei’s Life and Work from Socialist Hungary to Montréal’s Megastructures

Elfriede Zoller
Architektúra & urbanizmus
French Historical and Cultural Studies
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“We Knew It Right Away: This Was No Easy Job” – Eva Hollo Vecsei’s Life and Work from Socialist Hungary to Montréal’s Megastructures

Elfriede Zoller
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Eva Hollo Vecsei (1930), a pioneering Hungarian architect who emigrated to Canada in 1956, became a significant figure in Québec’s modern architecture. Despite her achievements, her contributions remain largely unknown in Europe. This paper offers a biographical analysis of her modernist architectural oeuvre, initially shaped in Hungary under socialist-realist mandates before 1956, and later in […]

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“We Knew It Right Away: This Was No Easy Job” – Eva Hollo Vecsei’s Life and Work from Socialist Hungary to Montréal’s Megastructures — Elfriede Zoller · Architektúra & urbanizmus (2025) | TGRS Research Map | TGRS