(Szent Istvan University, Hungary)
Ferenc Makovényi received his PhD degree in architecture in 2001 at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He has been as Collage Professor the head of the Department of Building Construction at Szent István University’s Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering since 2003, where he served as a dean from 2006-2014. He was vice president of the Chamber of Hungarian Architects from 2009-2013, now he is member of the Board. He is member of the Hungarian Accreditation Committee as well. As a construction manager he controlled and supervised more than 20 constructions in the range of 50 Million to 5 Billion HUF. He designed and built more than a dozen buildings, has more than sixty articles in different newspapers. His research areas are education management, building construction , rural development and agricultural building design questions.