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

triangular shape of its two balconies is intended to enliven the faqade much more than to serve the convenience of the occupants.

The experimental Napraforgó utca project proved to be a success. It showed that detached houses satisfying middle-class standards could be built on plots measuring as little as 350 square metres, that it was possible to create a harmonious ensemble of houses built simultaneously according to plans designed by architects working in very different styles but willing to function as a team, and finally that uniform, see-through and not particularly high fencing could actually help avoid excessive disparity in the general aspect of the street. The houses standing in Napraforgó utca also demonstrated that small villas built after plans designed by excellent professionals, taking into account both the functional and the aesthetic dimension of architecture, surpassed in all respects the usual standard of detached houses built with a comparable budget. It was shown that, making good use of the approaches offered by the new architectural trends, it was also possible to create villas without a specific “entertaining” sphere if premises fulfilling different functions were combined into one multifunctional living room with well-conceived proportions and designed to satisfy all the needs of its occupants; in othISapraforgó utca 9 in 1931 (Róbert K. Kertész)

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