Ferkai András: Modern buildings - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2009)

Detached houses and villas

living room and a kitchen featuring a serving hatch on the raised ground floor and the master bedroom and the nursery with a single bathroom upstairs. The bathroom, the kitchen and all the other service areas occupy the smallest floor- space possible. In the basement were a janitor's apartment and a boiler room, the centre of the air-heating system. Somewhat easing the solidity of the northeastern fafade is the raising of the basement on a row of supporting columns. This motif bears witness to the influence of Le Corbusier, whom Fischer held in high regard. Art photographer Olga Máté took some beautiful shots from behind the columns of the shaded portico — the pleasantest location of the building — overlooking the garden. The lanky figure rocking himself in one of Marcel Breuer's cantilevered chairs is none other than the architect himself.

József Fischer's signature can be seen on the approved plans of the next villa, too. The building at n Flarangvirág utca, District II was designed by Farkas Molnár, but as he and Fischer established a joint architectural studio on i January of 1931, they both signed the jobs carried out in that period. The two-flat house was ordered and

■ The Tyroler villa in Harangvirág utca. in 1935