After years of apprenticeship with our masters, we founded our architectural studio in 1997 under the name Fejérdy and Bartók Architecture Ltd. In our studio, most of the work is done in a collaborative way. Our assignments, the works we have built, are typically small and large public buildings; schools, gyms, hotels, churches, pilgrimage houses, cloisters. Besides some new buildings, the majority of our work is the conversion and extension of existing buildings. We are also happy to design interiors. In addition, we regularly and successfully participate in national and international design competitions. In 2011, we were awarded the Pro Architectura prize for the Paks Erzsébet Hotel building, and in 2020 for the new gymnasium of the St. Margaret of Arpad's Roman Catholic School in Kőszeg. Péter Fejérdy was awarded the Ybl Prize in 2011 for his architectural work. Our professional practice is accompanied by the parallelism of design practice and university education. In addition to our work in the design office, we have been involved in teaching architecture at university level, in undergraduate and doctoral programs for years and decades. Over the years, many of our staff have been former students.

History: The first convent of the Dominican Sisters of St. Margaret of Hungary was founded in 1868 by ten Italian and Austrian sisters in Kőszeg. Their ministry was the teaching and education of youth. The rapid growth of the community was interrupted in 1950 by the ban on the operation of monastic orders. After the dissolution, during four decades of illegality, the sisters embraced their faith and remained active. After the change of regime, and since the re-launch in 1991, today there are 45 Dominican sisters in four convents. Location: In the historic center of Budakeszi, the Sisters were given a steeply sloping plot behind the Baroque church to build a new convent. The surrounding still retain the single-story village atmosphere of the narrow ribbon streets of the former Swabian village, broken only by a few new public buildings. A rewriting of the existing: We have continued the existing buildings, rationalized spatial relationships, broken into the existing building masses, then sensitively shaped and added to it to further tell a story. The result is a coherent whole, where layers are layered to make the building more, better. The ensemble is made up of three elements: the Home house, the Cloister and the Chapel. A new staircase for barrier-free access completes the internal modernization of the Home house. The Cloister, located in the upper part of the site, has undergone a major refurbishment. This retained the building's basic envelope geometry and half-story offset system. The existing gable roof was removed and extended with a story extension. The Chapel was built on the site of the former garage. The sacred space is now in an elevated position due to the terrain conditions. The position of the chapel space is a kind of liturgical transcription of the upstairs room of the Last Supper. The interior design of the chapel space, with its simple open deck, the wrap-around illuminated bar, and the axial design of the sacred space aligned with the sanctuary, is a kind of modern transcription of early Christian sacred spaces. The puritan white space is delicately dressed with restrained and coordinated color details, all serving one purpose, to create a neutral space for experiencing transcendence. Light is the only variable in the space. A few meters from the new-age bustle of the city, in the back garden of the parish, this house stands carefully integrated into the urban fabric, quietly, barely audible, and serving the community with its presence.