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New York architect Richard Roth Jr., who just returned from Hungary, was in Budapest when the dramatic news broke at the end of last month: Hungary, which had been leaning toward Western ideology, has embraced democracy and socialism in place of communism.
"I got there the day they took the word `worker' out of the Communist Party manifesto," Roth said.
It wasn't Roth's first trip to Hungary. His firm, Emery Roth & Sons - famed for designing many of Manhattan's deluxe prewar apartment buildings and its post-war steel-and-glass office towers - has a special relationship with that country.
Young Hungarian architects have received advanced training in the firm's Manhattan office. In Hungary, the firm has tried unsuccessfully to develop a retirement village for returning emigres from around the world and is caught up in the arduous process of designing 10 Western-style...