Imre Makovecz often said that he was the “periphery’s architect”, that he was constantly pushed out of the centre and only got work on the periphery or beyond the border. Indeed, there is not a single public building in Budapest that he designed. Even the Makovecz buildings in the vicinity of Budapest came from his years at the Pilis Forestry.

In Central Hungary, the two key locations in the Makovecz oeuvre, Jászkisér and Jászapáti, relate to the village hall construction efforts of the 1980s. They were an integral part of the endeavours of Imre Makovecz and his colleagues, Pál Beke and others, aimed at saving settlements that were implicitly declared to be “without function or future” by the central government at the time. During this period, Imre Makovecz received a series of similar commissions (Bak, Kakasd, etc.).