Ferkai András: Modern buildings - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2009)
Detached houses and villas
■ ... and today in Budapest in the early 1930s without having his degree from Brünn (Brno) registered by the Hungarian authorities. Hence, he continually ran into conflicts with the Chamber of Engineers. After his indifferent early works the quality of his designs suddenly rose in the mid-i93os when one or two gifted young architects were likely hired by his studio. László Gábor (1910—81), known to the older generation as the wryly humorous professor of structural engineering at the Budapest University of Technology, only designed an apartment house in Budapest and another one in Debrecen in his own name. However, his designs drawn under Platschek included such constructions as the apartment blocks at 29 and 57 Margit körút, District II, flats at 5 Szamos utca, District Xli, or the villa at 46 Tigris utca, District i. The Fellegi House stands on the northern slope of Gellért Hill in a narrow strip of land at right angles with the street. The beautiful view of Castle Hill and the ring of the Buda hills open into the unfavourable northern direction. For that reason the designer had only the two rooms in the middle turn with their windows in that direction. The larger, westward-turning, balconies are protected from the winds by a wall in the north (it is only through one porthole that the panorama here can be admired here), but they are open to the south. The main entrance is on the second level. The receding basement used to house a garage, a janitor’s flat and the service 25
