Ödön Lechner studied architecture in Pest, and later at Berlin's Schinkel Academy. After a tour and study period in Italy, he returned to Pest in 1869 where he founded a successful architectural firm with Gyula Pártos.  During the 1870s, they designed a number of apartment buildings on the Pest side of the Danube in a historicist style that combined neo-classical influences from Berlin and the Italian Renaissance. Between 1875 and 1878 he lived in Paris where he was influenced by the art nouveau style. In 1879, Lechner returned to Hungary and, after a trip to London between 1889 and 1890, his style moved away from the Historicist matrix to embrace the Hungarian Secession movement, which was related to Art Nouveau in the rest of Europe.

Lechner typically decorated his buildings with terracotta and Zsolnay ceramic tile patterns inspired by old Magyar and Turkic as well as Indian and Persian folk art. He combined these folk references with the use of modern materials such as iron.

One of Lechner's most renowned works is the Postal Savings Bank (the headquarters of the National Bank of Hungary today) which he completed in 1901. The building combines art nouveau influences with Hungarian motifs and Asian forms.

In 1911, he completed the 6 gigantic knights adorning the entrance to the Pavilion of Hungary for the Turin 1911 exposition.

Ligeti created a statue of Major General Harry Hill Bandholtz, US Army, honoring his service to Hungary after World War I. Installed in the US Embassy ibuilding n 1936, it was removed by the communist regime.  It now resides in Freedom Park, across from the US Embassy. He was the President of the Hungarian Society of Applied Arts, and produced works in ceramics too. Among his decorative works, one shpuld mentions those adorning the Hungarian Parliament and the Adria Palace.

Móric Pogány began his professional training at at a technical school in Cluj-Napoca, Hungary.  He worked at restoration and reconstruction of castles in this region, which provided him access to the local roots of Hungarian architecture. He moved to Budapest, where he had a long professional partnership with architect Emil Tőry, with whom he worked from 1863 until his death. Besides designing the Pavilion of Hungary for the 1911 Exposition in Turin, he worked with Emil Tőry on the Erzsébetér palace of the Adriatic Insurance Institute in Budapest.  In 1926, he designed the Batthyány Eternal Light monument, at the place where Lajos Batthany -- the first independent prime minister of Hungary -- was executed (corner of Báthory Street and Hold Street in Lipótváros, Budapest). After Tőry's death in the 1930s, Pogány designed buildings such as the OTI apartment building in Tisza Kálmán Square (now Republic Square) in Budapest. He published his pen drawings in a volume entitled Träume eines Baumeisters (Dreams os an architect, 1926)