Veszter Gábor: Villas in Budapest. From the compromise of 1867 to the beginning of World War II - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1997)

Baroque school in vogue during the twenties; Lajos Kozma acquired fame by the new direction he gave to Hungarian Art Deco with his original work in applied arts. The younger generation represented by Farkas Molnár, József Fischer and György Masirevich Jr. played an important part in the realisation of the project, as they seemed much more motivated than their more experienced elders.

Notwithstanding the fact that the team of architects involved was mainly composed of seniors representing the older generation, the project as a whole as well as its individual elements were characterised by youthful features, unusually up-to-date as far as the Hungarian circumstances were concerned. Even Gyula Wälder abandoned his Baroque-type decorative elements and resorted to alternative, geometrical means for the shaping of both the body and the surfaces of the buildings he planned. As for Róbert K. Kertész, he drew his inspiration mainly from Dutch forms of contemporary brick architecture instead of continuing in the line of his own earlier work.

The basic area of the houses varied between 62 and 100, and the floor-space of the flats between 110 and 263 square metres. The smallest building was a singleThe view from the side of the Ördögárok brook in 1997. From the left: Nos. 7 and 9. (Andor Wellisch, Róbert K. Kertész)

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