A Typical Day on the Job

I arrived in the European Capital of Culture office on Monday morning, August 16th. Gábor Sztanics is the lead architect responsible for the Zsolnay Cultural Quarter (as well as overseeing other major architecture projects in Pécs) and was my mentor during my visit. He and his colleagues made me feel welcome in their office, offering me my own workspace for the two weeks. 

Gábor busy on the phone surrounding by thousands of construction drawings of the Zsolnay Cultural Quarter.

They provided me access to plentiful information about the Zsolnay Cultural Quarter project, from construction drawings, publication texts, to photographs of before and during construction. During the two weeks, I accompanied Gábor on site visits, meetings and tours of the construction sites. 

Around the construction site, I saw all stages of construction from demolition, to bricklayers putting up new walls and roofs being retiled at the Bobita Puppet Theatre.

 I also saw the finishing touches being put on the Sikorski House Gallery which houses a beautiful and valuable collection of Zsolnay art works.

Sikorski House

The collection has arrived waiting to be unpacked!

I also explored the contemporary art gallery and the children’s museum which were both still under construction but the form and flow of the space was taking shape.

 I watched workers cut and place copper sheets on the new planetarium for the children’s museum. 

Canteen