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

Building of today's College of Applied Arts

be asked (at the time and today) was only whether these contents were interpreted by the designers in a Socialist Realist manner.

The next assignment to be carried out in the large-scale programme of flat construction is to devise such versions of serial plans that answer the needs of families with various structures and lifestyles.

(Issues of Designing Flats Constructed on a Large scale, 1955)

1953-54 was the year of building homes on an impressive scale. That was when the construction of a particular type of apartment block began. These were buildings of a mostly individual design, whose weighty street fronts dominate certain streets and neighbourhoods of the city to this day. Representative of the type are Nos. 98-108

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