Fabó Beáta - Gall, Anthony: I came from the East to a City of Great Palaces. Károly Kós, the early years 1907-1914 (Budapest, 2013)
Influences
Budapest Városligeti Vajda Hunyad várának udvara Hof des Vajda Hunyad-Schlosses im 5tadtwáldchen 1902: ‘In late summer we moved to Budapest and in September 19021 started my studies at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Technology! ‘Budapest is the capital city of Hungary, its political, economical and cultural centre, already with a population of almost one million and one of the most beautifid cities in the world. This much I did know about itat the time!K0S19913a From 1902 on: ‘at the time the Central Warehouse of the Hungarian Royal Mail and Telegraph Company in Budapest was housed at the far end ofGyáli Road, beyond the railway line. Its courtyard was surrounded by a stone wall and had several warehouses in it, and also two yellow, typically featureless, office blocks, one at either end. One of these contained our ‘janitor'sflat’ and a flatfor the concierge. Around the lot nothing but a sad and lifeless sandy plain. (Sixty years have passed since then and I have hardly ever been to Budapest during these decades - and even when I was, I never went near those parts. Things there may be very different now.) The University of Technology was situated on Múzeum Boulevard at the time, which meant that I could get there by walking the two kilometre stretch of Gyáli Road to the terminal of the Budapest Railway Company and there - if I had the money-I could take the tram to the section boundary at Kálvin Square. If I had no moneyfor thefare, I would make the 3 kilometre walk along Üllői Road and then walk the Múzeum Bid from there as well!KOS 1991:31 1903: ‘Then I discovered the street of Pest I still consider the most cheerful and most typical today: Kerepesi (now Rákóczi) Rd, with the little square in front of the St Rókus Hospital with its charming little chapel and with the view of the Keleti Railway Station towering over Baross Square at the outer end of the road. (I got to like the building of the station maybe because this was where the trains would leave to take me home to Transylvania, buti still like it today.) It was also during my ramblings that I discovered my favourite building, the magnificent Halászbástya (Fishermen's Bastion)’. K0S 1991:37 ‘On my way home from the drawing classes I would pass by the Museum of Applied Art, so I would drop in to see, to learn, to draw...’KOS1991:41 H City Park, Vajdahunyad castle, circa 1900 BFL Fotótár 7 encountered the historical buildings reconstructed in the City park on many occasions..!K0S 1991:33 ■ was never able to pass the Museum of Applied Arts, that Gypsy Palace designed by Ödön Lechner, without stopping to stare and wonder’.K0S 1991:33 BFL Fotótár 41
