Armuth Miklós - Lőrinczi Zsuzsa (szerk.): A Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem Történeti Campusa (Budapest, 2023)
HAUSZMANN Alajos élete és munkássága - The Life and CEuvre of Alajos HAUSZMANN Kalmár Miklós - Kiss Zsuzsanna Emília
258 The 125 meter Long main facade of the Curia is the finishing part of a whole building block. The characteristically formed projections and Baroque-style details sort of provoke attention worthy of the building's function. This effect is enhanced by the works of prominent artists of the era, such as Alajos Stróbl, Károly Senyei, György Zala and Károly Lotz. The positioning of the functions in pairs, the Curia and the Court of Appeal, and the Attorney General and the Advocate General's Office followed the symmetrical, slightly affectedly regular composition. The spatial configuration of the building focusses on the spectacular foyer. The remodelling of the Royal Palace in Buda (1891-1905) is undoubtedly Hauszmann's most significant work in historicising architecture during the millennium. The modern history of the castle evolved in a new direction after the compromise in 1867. The palace designed by Franz Anton Hittebrandt during the reign of Maria Theresa buitt between 1749 and 1771 was unsuited to meet contemporary demands of representation. As it was not prioritized by the Hapsburg monarchs, the conditions of the building were farfrom being ideal. After the death of Miklós Ybl Hauszmann was commissioned to continue the reconstruction of the patace in 1892. As usual, he prepared carefully and thoroughly for the task, which was typical of his work method. He travelled all over Europe to see and study royal residences, especially those in Germany, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, England and France. Whilst retaining the existing wings of the building, he inventively designed the extension to meet representational demands. Unfortunately, it is rather difficult to recognize his generous ambition in the palace today which made it a top-achievement of architecture in Hungary in its own time owing to its spectacular sequence of interior spaces and sophisticated, elegant style. The architect sensitively perceived that the former extension perpendiculartothe Danube was unsuited to serve representation resulting from the views and thus topped the northern courtile of the existing building with a new central cupola (housing the so-called Hapsburg Hall, which is the Hapsburg Royal Ball-Room today) and reflected (repeated, or more precisely rebuilt) the existing building mass onto its axis of symmetry. This way a row of palaces evolved longitudinally parallel with the River Danube having an entrance opening northward in the direction of the civil township.The result was an elegant emphilade: a series of rooms opening into each other. A BUDAI KIRÁLYI PALOTA, 1 891 -1 905 THE ROYAL PALACE IN BUDA, 1891 -1905
