Fabó Beáta - Gall, Anthony: I came from the East to a City of Great Palaces. Károly Kós, the early years 1907-1914 (Budapest, 2013)
Kós' First Steps as an Independent Architect
THE FAMILY OF KÁROLY KÓS ■ Kós Károly and his wife at Sztáná/ Stana, 1969 Béla Kós H Kós at home in Kolozsvár/Cluj, early 1970’s photo by Géza Kós, Béla Kós ‘There's one thing I would want. I would like to live to see my tiny little home as neat and tidy as 1 have planned for myself. Be my field cultivated, my orchard fruitful, my hayloft full, my apiary populous. Be everything well kept, looked after and proper. It should all be beautiful and a feast for the eyes of all. This is what I would like to live to see. That my little farm, whose every square inch I toiled to purchase myself, whose every tree I planted myself, whose every building I built myself should be handed down to my descendants in this state. This is what I should like to live to see in good health and once I have, I, mortal human, shall be glad to depart to sleep my eternal sleep under my old oak trees, covered by flower-studded grass. There I shall still hear my bees buzz, the thud of the footsteps of the descendants of my descendants... How bitter my life shall turn, should I live to see the day when my grandchildren get bored with this land, and my death shall be bitter, bitter and damned. Because my whole life's toil shall fall to strange hands, my little Crow Castle, and my descendants shall be scattered all over the world. Damned shall be my final rest under the oaks in solitude in a strange land. This is what Ifear and I'm consumed by terror and fury. That strangers should tread on the flowers on my grave, strangers should laugh and cry inside my Crow Castle, which was built from bricks of my heart's love. I am therefore asking my God in true faith to bless my offspring so they should love and hold on to this little world wedged in between mighty mountains and I'm asking my God to smite those who get fed up with and sell short their homes, their land. Instead, they should continue in the love of theirforebears and carry on the work I have laid out here in Sztána!KOS m5: Testamentum és agrikultura, Introduction 146
