Szatmári Gizella: Signs of Remembrance - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2005)

with Károly Lotz, but he travelled to Paris as well. The streets and cityscapes captured in his watercolours reveal a keen interest in the man-made environment. Although he exhibited oil canvases in the Palace of Art, he followed his father-in-law Mór Kallina’s example and chose architecture. In Vienna, he directed the Fellner-Helmer company, an architectural studio renowned for the construction of theatres, while at home he collaborated with Alajos Hauszmann on the extension of the Royal Palace in Buda. Designs in his oeuvre display elements of Oriental ornamentation, Transylvanian reminiscences and motifs of a Hungarian provenance together with such state-of-the-art methods as the use of reinforced-concrete structures.

His villas built in the 1910s on Little Schwab Hill for members of the National Association of Judges and Attorneys are decorated with Kalotaszeg ornamentation — each house bearing a different pattern — and Transylvanian roofs are employed here, too. The Protestant church in what was first called Vilma

■ Aladár Árkay's memorial column