JÓZSEF SISA (Budapest, 1952) is an art historian. His main field of research is 19th century architecture and garden design. He studied English and Art History at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, and following graduation worked in the area of building conservation (1976–1984). Since 1986 he has been at the Institute of Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (now Eötvös Loránd Research Network), between 2012 and 2016 serving as the director of the Institute. Since 2011 he has also taught at the University of Pécs. In 2013 he was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit. His main works include The Architecture of Historic Hungary (ed., with Dora Wiebenson, 1998), Lechner, a Creative Genius (2014), and Motherland and Progress: Hungarian Architecture and Design 1800–1900 (ed., 2016).