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

functions, the idea summed up in a letter of 1918: "...1 am convinced that I am more wanted in Transylvania than in Budapest”. And he acted accordingly when, after the expiry of his government scholarship in Turkey and the writing-up of his experiences in a study of religious history and architecture entitled Stambul, he returned to his native Stána - to his Crow Castle - in Kalotaszeg.

He put to very good use the expertise acquired during his studies at the Technical University of Budapest. Not only did he make sketches for Attila's sepulchre and the dining hall of a baronial mansion while he was employed at the studio of Móric Pogány, but he was also commissioned by the municipality of Budapest to design the pavilions of a new Zoo. He executed the task in conjunction with Dezső Zrumeczky as he had with the designs of the Calvinist Parsonage of Óbuda or the church in Zebegény. A relief-decorated plaque, made by Ferenc Csúcs in 1983, commemorates the designer in Óbuda.

The fine, richly decorated Art-Nouveau City Mayor School co-designed with Dénes Györgyi (1910) and the Székely Museum in Sepsiszentgyörgy were completed by the time Kós was commissioned to prepare designs for the centre

■ The man who designed the Wekerle estate

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