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

Housing Estates after 1945

■ The courtyard tagadé of the block on the Homing Zitate (Legány, Schmidt, 1954)

ance. Standard designs thui came to be synonymous with plain, boring and faceless apartment homed. " Made in a mid-1954 issue of Magyar Építőművészet (Hungarian Architecture) these self-critical comments were in line with the changes of Hungary's political life that followed the death of Stalin. Imre Nagy's political agenda (inaugurated in June 1953) extended the home-building project-which had thus far focused on industrial centres-to the whole country with the intention of taking into consideration the real needs of the population. In response to all the criticism about standard designs, the Ministry liberated the industry of designing flats at a conference held in November of 1954; with that the making of individual designs and local types was authorised. This transient state of affairs is reflected by the housing estate on Kerepesi út, whose

■ Section 0I1 the meandering block on the Kerepesi út Housing estate

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