About Us
AETER was founded in 2021 by Anna Rácz and Gergely Sági, after nearly 15 years of friendship and previous collaboration. The choice of name is both coincidental and not. Coincidental, because while taking shelter from the rain in the sacristy of the then-under-renovation Votivkirche in Vienna, we surely did not stumble by chance upon Jakob B. Reider's installation of the same name. A golden veil coiling around a heavy, neo-Gothic pillar. We recognised ourselves in it. That is how we found our name.
Since then, we have found experience, impulse, knowledge, shards, stones, books, and relics in the most unexpected places: fragments of stories that we can then continue to write. From these stories, we became AETER. And although years have passed since then, and the team continuously changes, evolves and takes shape, it is these ever-accumulating stories that have defined us ever since.
ArchitectURE
Architecture. Creation. Complex and multifaceted, regardless of scale or programme. Expressive, impactful, narrative. Installations, topography, exterior and interior spaces, small and large buildings, in Hungary and abroad.
Survey
Survey. Discovery. By hand and by machine. Both are a form of touch. Drawing and model, pencil and point cloud; what the camera cannot see, the eye still can. Measuring tape, laser — or whatever happens to be at hand.
Research
Research. Understanding. Books, archives, museums. Reading — sometimes writing about it too. Seeing is not enough; one must also comprehend, and that is sometimes no easy task. One must know how to search, and indeed how to find. Then piece it together, and sometimes fill in the gaps.
Our Team
Design begins with them
Gergely Sági (1987, Budapest)
Architect
Founder, Managing Director, Assistant Professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), DLA.
Anna Rácz (1988, Budapest)
Architect
Founder, Managing Director.
Natália Ferenczi (1997, Győr)
Architect
Architectural visualization and digital data processing, non-invasive archaeology.
Viktória Gyömbér (1996, Szeged)
Architect
Heritage conservation consultancy, monument preservation and historical research services.
The website was created within and with the support of the Demján Sándor Program.