Prakfalvi Endre: Architecture of Dictatorship. The Architecture of Budapest between 1945 and 1959 - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)

porting structures made of reinforced concrete were first used. With their clear, transparent design, the products of this technology represent a significant aesthetic value, mainly because this branch of architecture was, in times to come, the easiest to “shield” from the dominance of the ideology of form. (The survival of these plant units is now threatened by the ongoing transformation of industrial mass production.)

The architectural modernism of the period is commemorated, together with exhibition pavilions whose memory is only kept alive by documents, by a building erected in the inner courtyard of the Hungarian Radio (5-7 Bródy Sándor utca, district VIII). Called the Pagoda, the pavilion was built to plans by István Szabó.

Having become a “workers’ institution” as early as 1945, OT1 was a major customer of the building industry. The social security organisation started to build its first clinics in the working class districts of Budapest. It had invited tenders for an instalment in Csepel even before 1945, and the project was concluded according to the original plans in a modern style of a moderate brand (Sándor Várallyai). The furniture was designed by Pál Vince (Weiss). Also predating the war in its conception was another, larger-scale, OT1 investment, the eleventh-district clinic at No. 12 Fehérvári út. Carried by a reinforced concrete structure, the long

The Pagoda

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