Földes Mária: Ornamentation - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1993)

urgent, because the banisters are sound, and the original front doors of the apartments with their frames are still in place. The facade is a unique feature of the city. It is worth saving for one more reason-it was in connection with the construction of this house that the designer formulated his novel philosophy as an architect, which came to be so characteristic of the period’s art. That is why we cite his words as quoted in the journal Magyar Iparművészet in 1902 (Applied Arts in Hungary):

“Therefore I deemed it expedient to arrange the facade altogether freely, in keeping with the aspirations of modernity, rather than in the framework of the various historical styles. From that it necessarily followed that 1 laid the emphasis on the decorative and not on the structural features of the facade. 1 feel that there is less and less room for structural composition on today’s simple apartment buildings in any case. On apartment

No. 3 Aulich utca, so-called Walkó House, sculptural

DECORATION ON FACADE

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