Ervin Y. Galantay (born Ervin Iván Galántay; 14 October 1930 – 30 October 2011) was a Hungarian-American architect. He married Karla Jay Noell (New York) in 1959. They had two sons Roy (born in 1961) and Richard (born in 1964). He lived most of his life in

Cossonay Cossonay is a municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is part of the district of Morges. History Cossonay has both Roman ruins and medieval graves. The first documentation of the settlement dates from 1096 under the name ''Cochonia ...

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

, where he was a

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at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

Career

1955 dipl. arch,

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (colloquially) , former_name = eidgenössische polytechnische Schule , image = ETHZ.JPG , image_size = , established = , type = Public , budget = CHF 1.896 billion (2021) , rector = Günther Dissertori , president = Joël Mesot , ac ...

Zürich (ETH Zürich);
1957 Master of City Design; Philadelphia USA
Lecturer

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, New York 1959;

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1961.
Associate Professor

1965,
Professeur Ordinaire at the Swiss Federal Technical University EPFL. Dean of the Faculty; Director of the postgraduate Programs in Development Planning. Retired 1995.

Military affairs

E. Galantay was a runner with the Vannay Battalion of volunteers in December 1944. He is a Central Captain of the Knightly Order of Hungarian Warriors (''Vitéz''—valiant in English) and has been decorated with the golden medal of the Hungarian Institute of Military History. He has lectured about

urban warfare Urban warfare is combat conducted in urban areas such as towns and cities. Urban combat differs from combat in the open at both the operational and the tactical levels. Complicating factors in urban warfare include the presence of civilians a ...

(Military Operations Urban Terrain – MOUT) at the

U. S. Army The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, and is designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution.Article II, section 2, cla ...

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School at

Fort Leavenworth Fort Leavenworth () is a United States Army installation located in Leavenworth County, Kansas, in the city of Leavenworth, Kansas, Leavenworth. Built in 1827, it is the second oldest active United States Army post west of Washington, D.C., an ...

and numerous other venues: at the British Army's War studies department and at the Conflict Studies Research Centre, Sandhurst and

Shrivenham Shrivenham is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England, about south-west of Faringdon. The village is close to the county boundary with Wiltshire and about east-northeast of Swindon. The 2011 Census recorde ...

, as well as to Swiss and Hungarian military audiences.

Distinctions

Member of the prize-winning teams in the international competitions for the city Halls of Toronto and Boston. Member of the Design team of the Venezuelan New Town of

Ciudad Guayana Ciudad Guayana () (in English Guayana City) is a city in Bolívar State (Venezuela), Bolívar State, Venezuela. It stretches 40 kilometers along the south bank of the Orinoco, Orinoco river, at the point where it is joined by its main tributary ...

, and of

Owerri Owerri ( , ) is the capital city of Imo State in Nigeria, set in the heart of Igboland. It is also the state's largest city, followed by Orlu, Okigwe and Ohaji/Egbema. Owerri consists of three Local Government Areas including Owerri Municipal, ...

, Nigeria. Master Plan of the campus of

Stony Brook University Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university in Stony Brook, New York. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is one of the State University of New York system's ...

Campus: Design of the Library. Humanities Building at Stony Brook L.I., as well, with DPW associates. of the Fine Arts Center and of the Music and Theatre buildings of Stony Brook University.

Publications

articles in
''Architecture d'Aujourd'hui'' 1956.
''The Nation'' (N.Y)
''Progressive Architecture''
''The Town Planning Review''
''Hungarian Journal of Military History''
''the Hungarian Quarterly'' Books
''New Towns from the antiquity to the present'' Braziller New York, 1975. Seven editions. –
''Nuevas ciudades : de la antigüedad a nuestros días'' Editorial Gustavo Gili: Barcelona and

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1977(also in Japanese and in Persian)
''The Metropolis in Transition''

Paragon House The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, widely known as the Unification Church, is a new religious movement, whose members are called Unificationists, or "Moonies". It was officially founded on 1 May 1954 under the name Holy Spi ...

, New York 1980
with A. Saqqaf et al." ''The Arabic City''
''New towns worldwide'', International Federation for Housing and Planning,

The Hague The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital of ...

, the Netherlands 1985; editors, E.Y. Galantay, A.K. Constandse, T. Ohba.
''Boy soldier, Budapest, 1944 – 1945'' Militaria Publishers. 2nd edition 2006. Budapest
280 pages, 70 photos, 11 sketches, ten maps. Foreword by Lt.Gen. D. Petrosky of the US.Army,. See also C. Dick in the British Military Review, and L. Grau in the U.S. Military Review Febr. 2008. Plays
using the pseudonym Yan A. Galt:
''Selina'', 1970, Stockwell Ltd UK.
''Ivanov/Evanson – a morality play'' 1971 Stockwell Ltd. UK {{DEFAULTSORT:Galantay, Ervin Y. 1930 births 2011 deaths ETH Zurich alumni Columbia University faculty Harvard University faculty Academic staff of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Hungarian architects Hungarian military personnel of World War II 20th-century American architects