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László Hornicsek (1923 – 2014), born in Czechoslovakia, was a Hungarian interior designer, architect, industrial designer, winner of the Kossuth Prize. From 1942 to 1946 he was a student at the School of Applied Arts, then until 1958 he was a teaching assistant of Gyula Kaesz at the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts, and then until 1962 he taught at the Budapest University of Technology. Read the full biography

László Hornicsek (1923 – 2014), born in Czechoslovakia, was a Hungarian interior designer, architect, industrial designer, winner of the Kossuth Prize. From 1942 to 1946 he was a student at the School of Applied Arts, then until 1958 he was a teaching assistant of Gyula Kaesz at the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts, and then until 1962 he taught at the Budapest University of Technology. Between 1952 and 1958 he attended the Higher School of the Association of Hungarian Architects, where his teachers were Gyula Kaesz, Lajos Kozma, Károly Weichinger, Dénes Györgyi and Frigyes Pogány. Between 1950 and 1975 he was the principal designer, studio director and chief architect of KÖZTI, and between 1975 and 1984 he was department head of UVATERV. He is considered an important architect and interior designer of the second generation of functionalism in Hungary. In 1965 his book entitled Furnishing and Sizing of the Apartment was published (together with Lajos Gádoros).