H. Szilasi Ágota - Várkonyi Péter - Bujdosné Pap Györgyi - Császi Irén (szerk.): Agria 51. (Az egri Dobó István Vármúzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2018)
Paládi-Kovács Attila: Bakó Ferenc, a népi építészet kutatója
Szeder Fábián 1819 Ä Palóczok. Tudományos Gyűjtemény. 1819. VI. 26-46. TESz 1967-1976 A magyar nyelv történeti-etimológiai szótára l - III. BENkő Loránd (szerk.) Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest. Tichy Kálmán 1939 Agömöri lakóházak homlokzata és oromfala. Búvár 1939. V. 4. sz. 685-689. Vargyas Lajos 1976 A magyar népballada és Európa l. Zeneműkiadó, Budapest. Zólyomi József 1974 Nógrád megye népi építkezése a levéltáriforrások alapján (1700-1850). In: Nógrád Megyei Múzeum Közleményei XX. Salgótarján, 5-74. Attila Paládi-Kovács FERENC BAKÓ, RESEARCHER OF FOLK ARCHITECTURE Ferenc Bakó was an outstanding figure in the research of Hungarian folk architecture, more specifically, that of Heves County and the northern region. His series of architectural studies, published from 1964 already outlined the various steps of a large-scale research programme. His research findings were summarised in his monograph entitled Parasztházak és udvarok a Mátra vidékén (Peasant Houses and Yards of the Mátra Region), published in 1978. His meticulous, methodological and relentless efforts during his two-decade research of Heves County’s folk architecture were absolutely impressive. He visited all (118) villages of the county with his questionnaire. During his field trips he surveyed and prepared the description of 450 buildings, took around 2500 photos, which were then archived in the Dobó István Castle Museum. In the first phase of his research he managed to complete field visits in ten villages a year. He devoted the second phase of his research to collecting data from archives and processing certain findings in detail. The impressive pool of photos in his book is a testament to his excellent planning and scheduling of these research activities. The houses he photographed in the 1950s were no longer to be seen in the 1970s. Prior to Ferenc Bakos research we had rather uncertain information about the living conditions, houses, interiors, settlement types, building materials, shapes and technologies in Heves County. We knew even less about the peasant and lower middle-class homes in Heves County than those of the Palóc region in the Mátra Hills. Ferenc Bakos monograph was a long-needed publication, however, there was another reason for its prestigious place among the monographs focusing on the folk architecture of the various Hungarian regions. It was special, because it managed to trace practically every finding back to the mid-18th century or at times even to the 16-17th centuries. Using archival and iconographic sources, it succeeded in mapping and describing the folk building traditions of Heves County over 2-300 years. This is an achievement, which should be considered exemplary not only in the research of folk architecture, but every other field of ethnography. 67
