MÁS architects was founded by Orsolya Mészáros and Bálint Gulyás in Budapest in 2018. They completed their studies at the Budapest and Barcelona Universities of Technology, began their careers at the Pritzker Prize-winning RCR ARQUITECTES office, and then worked in Spanish and Hungarian studios before establishing their own practice. The work of the studio spans the fields of residential, educational, community, workplace, and hospitality projects, from private commissions to large-scale public buildings. A common characteristic of the portfolio is conceptual discipline and site-specific thinking. We have significant experience in architectural and interior design, permitting, and reconstruction.
We have worked nationwide with organizations, real estate developers, and municipalities, whose leadership teams have equally recognized the advanced capabilities we provide. MÁS operates in Budapest with its own design team and is a co-founder of a shared design workshop hosting independent offices. Education and research are integral parts of the practice: they teach residential building design at the Budapest University of Technology, and their doctoral research focuses on the methodology of architectural design. They understand design as a strategic decision-making process. The concept is a structuring principle that creates hierarchy between structural, spatial, and technological questions. Form and material are the consequence of this system. The building is not an autonomous object, but an intervention in an existing physical and cultural environment.
An important extension of the way MÁS Építészek operates is MALOM SOCIETY, the engineering and creative coworking environment we have created. The shared workshop is based on the collaboration of independent design studios, engineering consultants and makers, allowing us to flexibly connect different competencies and capacities to our projects. This model enables us to expand our resources according to the scale of each task, while conceptual direction and design responsibility remain in the hands of MÁS.