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

65 (Ágnes Jutás Marton), No. 71 (Imre Édes), No. 73 (György Tőkés), No. 81 (Zoltán Boross) and No. 86 (Miklós Csics).

Another important building was erected on a street corner at No. 7-9 Török utca, district II; its elegantly articulated edifice was built of visibly high quality materials to plans by Béla Pintér (1959). Also built on a vacant plot was the “hotel-like” block of flats at No. 37-39 Malinovszkij (today Szilágyi Erzsébet) fasor, district II, built to plans by László Fodor, who still aimed to achieve “monumentality”. A noteworthy block of flats was built at No. 2 Harcsa utca, district II (Lajos Zalaváry, Pál Oltay, 1957-58), and the group of apartment blocks at the junction of Ostrom utca and Vérmező út, constructed to plans by Ágost Benkhard between 1955 and 1959, was also of significance.

On 2 November 1956, the poem entitled “Egy mondat a zsarnokságról” (A Sentence on Tyranny) appeared in the literary magazine Irodalmi Újság. The poem says that “where tyranny reigns, it is there in everything and everywhere..."

In every brick and every column head? Is the suggestion couched in the form of a rhetorical question justifiable? Does that poetic truth apply today in 1999 as one considApartment house built to pltvss made by Dezső Dúl IM 1956 AT THE CORNER OF JÓZSEF ATTILA UTCA and Hercegprímás utca

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