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

Housing Estates after 1945

■ Houses by the Rákos Brook on the homing estate in Fiastyúk út (Zoltán Baross, 1958-60)

while the number of smaller apartments, especially that of reduced-comfort flats equipped with a washing recess instead of a bathroom, increased after 1955. Social Realism lost some of its rigour in 1954-55, and the 1956 Revolution swept away the pseudo-archaic style altogether. The last stage of the estate (Zoltán Boross, Gábriel Vidos, Buváti, 1958-60) did not do much more than slightly alter the row of buildings on the Rákos Brook. The earlier arrangement was loosened up, and the six-storey slab blocks of flats providing the brook-side closure and thus creating the most important front of the estate were once again made in a Modernist style. These buildings stand out from the rest with their more freely- shaped design and vivid pastel colours. It is another matter that there are more low-comfort flats in them than there had been in the buildings erected in the earlier stages.

The housing estate on Kerepesi út

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