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

the conservatory in the corner of the dining room and the terraces stretching along the whole side fagade and continuing, on the upper floor, along the back fagade while running along the street fagade on the ground floor - all these elements had been elaborated for that fundamental purpose. The plot was divided into two sections by a buttress built perpendicularly to the house at one third of its length; the upper part was shaped so as to form an organic continuation to the ground floor terrace. The three “entertaining” premises of the ground floor were separated, Rimanóczy having given up the interflowing inner spaces favoured by Kozma; dining room and hall were kept apart by a standard-sized, two-winged door, while hall and parlour were divided by a wide open space that might have been furnished with a curtain. However, the architect fully grasped the possibilities offered by Kozma’s conception while planning the terraces and the garden, opening a new architectural tendency in the domain of villa building in Hungary. (One of the most appealing features of the Landhauses, or single-storey villas, built in Germany before the turn of the century was their connection of inner and outer space. This trend also precisely determined which part of the garden should be found in front of which room. The rose garden, for example, had to be planted on the space stretching in front of a lady’s room.)

Even if the general composition of the Rimanóczy Villa on Pasaréti út was strongly determined by the parapets of the terraces running along the fagade, along with the garden buttress and the wall fagades of the conservatoDarányi Ignác (now Hankóczy Jenő) utca 17-19

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