“… we kept visiting places all over Hungary beginning in the 1970s…. I could detect the stages of decay as I spoke to so many people. The many deposited layers of fear, apathy, disrepair, giving up, being robbed and being deprived of intellectuality, all of which I could see, generated understanding and sympathy in me, along with a desperate readiness to act. A few of us began to transform the principles and practice of culture centre design…”