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(b Budapest, April 24, 1866; d Budapest, Feb 26, 1933). Hungarian architect, interior designer and theorist. He graduated from the Hungarian Palatine Joseph Technical University, Budapest, in 1887 and joined the office of Vilmos Freund (1846–1920), who designed Renaissance Revival buildings. About 1900 Spiegel began pursuing a more independent style, emphasizing that decoration is not an aim in itself but follows from the logic of the materials and that what is expedient in architecture is also beautiful. He believed that a new architecture could be developed from ornament and covered the façades of his residential blocks with extensive naturalistic motifs, for example at 94 and 96 Izabella Street (1901) and 61 Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Street (1903), both in Budapest. In 1903 he also founded an applied arts studio and shop in Budapest called La Maison Moderne. Later he joined Géza Márkus to build the classicist residential block (1908), Szeged, the Music Palace (1911...