Ferkai András: Housing Estates - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2005)

After World War I

before the fall of the Republic of Councils. The block designs indicate repeated changes in the development plan. With its frames symmetrically closed around interior courtyards, the eastern side is the earliest section of the estate. A long building of three and four storeys raised from designs by Dr. Béla Barát and Ede Novák comprises the northern "wall" of the block. The building was originally broken through by a dual-vaulted gate opening into the interior of the block. Connected to this construction are a number of similar, three-storey buildings (by Géza Kappéter and János Bobula). Stalled from time to time, construction work received a new impetus when the government project of small flats was brought under the supervision of the Ministry of Social Welfare in 1923. In the spring of 1924, after the completion of further tenement buildings and a few semidetached houses, the original idea was abandoned for the sake of building temporary flats in small houses with gardens, one standing right next to the other. With the normally two-room flats of the tenement blocks allotted to civil servants arriving from the post-Trianon territories seeking asylum in Hungary,

■ The development plan of the state housing estate on Pongrác út

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