Fabó Beáta - Gall, Anthony: I came from the East to a City of Great Palaces. Károly Kós, the early years 1907-1914 (Budapest, 2013)

Influences

Building

‘the Hungarians of the Kalotaszeg (Tara Cälatei) region build with wood, and, with the exception of some of the Székely regions, no other Hungarians are able to understand and express the naturalness of this material and its technical qualities, nor construct in such a clear and logical way with this material as are the natives of Kalotaszeg (Tara Cälatei). These people derived their structural knowledge from the gothic, but their sense of proportion, their distribution of pattern and function reflects their own individual logic. Their buildings andfurnishings are not unique, but rather typical. An unusually small number of basic forms are varied to create an endless variety of solutions..’.

KOS 1932:156-157.

M Jákótelek (Horlacea), Barn

drawing by Dr. Károly Kós collection of Béla Kós

Türe, village house

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