One style, three towns. After visiting Barcelona and Brussels, the travelling exhibition is shown in Budapest from 23 March to 30 April, presenting the oeuvre of three great masters of secession: Antoni Gaudí, Ödön Lechner and Hort Victor.

Fifty 1,5 x 1,5-meter photographs are on display on a fence of a dominant public building in every town. An architect represents a town with 15 buildings the guests can visit even on the maps we show with the photos on.

The first exhibition opened on 23 January in Barcelona. The photo was posted on the side of the Sagrada Família, not by chance as the designer of the house, Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) represents Spain.

In Budapest, the photos are on display ont he fence of the Hungarian National Academy, where Hungary is represented by Ödön Lechner (1845-1914). Ödön Lechner was born into a family of German origins. He went to the József Polytechnikum and to the Academy of Architecture in Berlin. He opened a designer office together with Gyula Pártos, and then he went to France to restore a national building. The ornamented buildings he designed were often covered with ceramics, and determined architecture design in Hungary after the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867.

The third exhibitor is arriving to Brussels, the birth town of Victor Horta (1861-1947), on 15 May, where it will be shown until 30 June.

It is the first time these three very different representations of secessions are related to one another via an exhibition. It is because all three artists, Gaudí, Horta and Lechner applied tradition, novelty, imagination, material and spirit as their sources. The thematic grouping of the works are to shed light on the similarities in the development of the 'towns of secession' even though so far away from one another in space.