Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 17. (Budapest, 1998)

Éva HORÁNYI: A Villa in Berkenye Street. A Contribution to the Activity of Lajos Kozma in the Villa Architecture of the 1930's in Buda

NOTES László Beke - Zsuzsa Varga: Kozma Lajos. Budapest, 1968. p. 24. mentions this as one of the best-solved Kozma villas, provides a brief descrip-tion of the building and four illustrations (figures 21-25). Judit Koos: Kozma Lajos munkássága. Grafika, iparművészet, építészet (The Activity of Lajos Kozma. Graphic art, Applied art, Archi-tecture). Budapest, 1975. mentions it among his family houses on p. 201., illustration on p. 203. András Ferkai; Buda építészete a két világháboríi között (Architecture in Buda between the two World Wars). Budapest, 1995. Mention of the Berkenye Street Villa as item 78 in the inventory of artistic heritage, wiüi details, description and three illustrations. 2 Lajos Kozma: Családiház a Rózsadombon (A family villa on Rózsadomb), in: Tér és Forma (Space and Form). Budapest, 1937. Nr. 11. pp. 319-323. Lajos Kozma: Térforma és beépített bútor: Széljegyzetek egy Berkenye-uccai villához (Spatial form and fitted furniture - Notes on a villa in Berkenye Street), in: A bútor (Furniture) 1937. Nr. 12. pp. 159-166. 3 llj Magyar Építőművészet (New Hungarian Architecture) ed. by Dénes Györgyi, Dezső Hültl, László Irsy, Lajos Kozma. Budapest, 1938. p. 83. 4 Ludwig Kozma: Das Neue Haus. Zürich, 1941, in Hungarian, Lajos Kozma: Az új ház. Bu dapest, 1978. (Hereafter: Kozma, 1978) 5 LM (Budapest Museum of Applied Arts) Archives: Sign.: Krtf 565/7 Perspective sketch, pencil on tracing paper, 36 x 44 cm. Krtf 504/3 Perspective sketch, watercoloured photocopy on paper, 34 x 42 cm (a copy of sketch Krtf 565/7) Krtf 548/4 Sketch of the living room furniture. Ink on paper, 32 x 47 cm, Published in: A bútor 1937. Nr. 12., p. 163. Krtf 548/5 Sketch of the living room furniture. Paper. (A "negative" copy of Krtf 548/4.) Krtf 573/11 Plan of the first floor. Ink on tracing paper, 34 x 37 cm. Published in: Tér és fonna, 1937. Nr. 11. p. 320. Krtf. 549/5 The operating principle of the sliding door separating the living room and the bed-sitting room. Ink on tracing paper, 16.5 x 42 cm. Published in: A bútor, 1937. Nr. 12., p. 165. Fit. 14468 the south-southeastern front of the house. Photograph by Zoltán Seidner. Published in: A bútor, 1937. Nr. 12, p. 161 and Tér és fonna 1937/ 11, p. 323. 6 hi the Drawing Collection of the Municipal Office of Civil Engineering, in the Plans Archive in batch No. 15069/9 under No. 314336 we find the original plans submitted for planning pennission in 1937 (sketch of the premises, facades and section, grand plans [two sheets of plan], statical calculations.) Under No. 307273 we find the modified plans submitted for planning pennission (sketch of the premises, facades and section, grand plans, plans for landscape design and fence [three sheets of plan], habitation pennit) and the documentation and plans for the transformations in 1950, 1958, and 1960. 7 One of the newly separated apartments of the villa is still lived in by the original patron's daughter. Conversations with her have yielded pieces of useful and interesting infonnation regarding the building. 8 Regarding the issue of planning pennission see, "Vállalkozók Lapja" (Business Courier, year 57. 1936/36. p. 2, "At the suggestion of department 111. of the Town Hall, between August 25-31 1936 the Mayor has issued the following planning permissions - Lajos Magyar and wife, building at HJ., Pajzs Street, No, 15069/9. Current domicile, II, 24 Garas Street. Design, Lajos Kozma, 2 Balaton Street, two storey residential house.") The commission to design the garden was given to the well reputed landscape architect Gábor Gönyei who had often worked with Kozma, eg. in the case of the buildings at II, 8/d Kavics Street or 21 Orsó Street. 10 hi the first version of the plan (see Plan Archives, plan sheets No. 314336) the bathroom was between the bed-siitting room and the nursery. On the modified plans it is next to the staircase, ie. it has changed places with the dressing room. The change was probably caused by technical considerations, the rooms which utilised a plumbing system needed to be next to each other even if this deprived the bed-sitting room of direct access to the bathroom. 11 See Kozma 1978. p. 16.