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HAUSZMANN Alajos élete és munkássága - The Life and CEuvre of Alajos HAUSZMANN Kalmár Miklós - Kiss Zsuzsanna Emília

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In 1876 designs were invited in an architectural competition for a general hospital in Budapest with a capacity of 300 patients. Of the three potential sites suggested, the hospital was finally built along Üllői Street, near Nagyvárad Square as István (Stephen) hospital (today: St. Stephen's Hospital) in

1880. Winning the tender, Hauszmann travelled to Berlin, Dresden and Hamburg to learn more about pavilion-planned hospitals and at last he chose a Berlin-based one as the prototype of the would-be hospital in Budapest. This was the period when he established his knowledge he relied upon to specialise as an architect of hospitals. Now he had to reconcile functional interiors meeting contemporary demands and a traditional Historicising-style exterior. This was the era when exposed raw brick architecture became widespread and typically used in state-sponsored projects: just becoming fashionable, it offered practical, cheap, durable and weatherproof surfaces for buildings.

As the building designed by Imre Steindlforthe purposes of the Technical University along Múzeum Boulevard (1881-1883) soon proved to be tight, Hauszmann was commissioned to design the new pavilion especially for architects. This extension was a two-storey pavilion at No. 3 Eszterházy (today: Puskin) Street. Used alternatively, the raw red brick, terracotta and white plaster produced a highly characteristic facade here. The Elizabeth Hospital of the Red Cross Association (today: Sports Hospital) was built between 1882 and 1884. United in

1881, the Hungarian Red Cross movement required buildings meeting the needs of field-hospitals. Designed accordingly, the pavilion-plan reflected the most modern concepts of hospitals back in those days. The modern school of Pest (1883-1884) in Markó Street and the TeacherTraining College of Budapest (1884) enriched Hauszmann's practice and contributed to his success as an architect of educational buildings. Designing structures with a solemn exterior evoking Renaissance palaces of the past with functions hidden behind their eclectic exteriors was an almost routine task for him by then. Built as an extension of the existing teacher training institute, the Girls' UpperSchool in Sopron (1884-1886) may be regarded as a simpler version of the major modern school in Pest.

Designed for the purposes of Count Géza Batthyány, Batthyány Palace (1884) enriched the stock of urban tenement houses and palaces in the 1880s. The facade of this building evokes Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, which was the firm request of the count, although Hauszmann was reluctant to do design it accordingly.

Hauszmann was commissioned by the Nádasdy family to design both their palace in Nádasdladány (1884-1885) and the patron's chapel (1884-1885) in its neighbourhood. The castle was originally designed by István Linzbauer (1838-1880), but construction works were abandoned in 1873 to be continued underthe supervision of Hauszmann. His task Now was to design the interiors and to enrich the details of the Romantic-style exterior too. The chapel is entirely and exclusively his own work.

The building housing the Medicolegal Institute (Üllői Street No. 93, 1886-1887) is another hospital designed by Hauszmann. This time he adapted the most modern solutions he had seen during his journeys on prototypes in Paris, Berlin and Leipzig.

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HÜLTL HOUSE, BUDAPEST,

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