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

which consisted of wire-netting framed by metallic tubes and which is much more delicate and airy. There are no gradual transitions in Molnár’s work, the main conception being rather stiffly unified. The ground plans of the two buildings have not much in common as the house in Lotz Károly utca was composed of two parts; there were two two-storey flats above each other in the street faqade block, while the lower back faqade, which was also oriented towards the street, contained a flat with two

Apartment villa (1933). The restoration of the villa, damaged during the war, involved only minimal changes.

II., Lotz Károly utca 4/B

rooms on each level. (The architect, who lived with his family in the upper flat, died in January 1945 when it was hit by a bomb.)

Molnár designed his most successful and maybe most proficiently conceived villa for Jenő Dálnoki Kovács at Lejtő utca 2/A. The exterior appearance of this prismatic building divided into four square rooms of equal dimensions does not reveal much of its inner structure. The upper floor only takes up half of the ground surface offered by the lower floor, the half on the right side being covered with a spacious roof terrace. The defining element of the main faqade consists in a bow window tak54