Architecture:

culture / building / vocation

Architecture is always the imprint of a time and place—of its culture and its industrial and technical possibilities. That is why it is easier today to design a middling building eager to follow fast-changing trends, and why it is difficult to make a good house—true Architecture.

Difficult, but not impossible: the shifting world of the twenty-first century still offers us a profusion of new opportunities. We regard it as our vocation to create buildings that reach beyond short-term expectations and local interests—useful, enduring houses that are legible within contemporary Architecture, in both Hungarian and European cultural and social contexts.

We founded T2.a Architects more than twenty years ago, in 2004, together with my father, Gábor Turányi. Even our office’s name grew out of this shared way of thinking about Architecture:

Turányi × Turányi × architecture = T2.a

Along our shared professional path, we have completed a number of buildings that, we believe, will long live up to our principles of good Architecture and stand the test of time. We continue this work after Gábor Turányi’s passing in 2020. His curious, irregular freedom in practice—the way he lived his vocation, Architecture—despite all his intentions to the contrary, made him a master to others. I am only now beginning to understand that I am no exception. Like so many, I learned much—perhaps everything—from him, because from him one could truly learn.

Quietly, naturally, and freely—beyond Architecture itself.

At T2.a Architects we strive to let this resonate in the buildings we design.

Bence Turányi, architect