Prakfalvi Endre: Architecture of Dictatorship. The Architecture of Budapest between 1945 and 1959 - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)

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Serial apartment block in Béke tér, Csepel

What provoked the critic’s disapproval may have been, for example, the so-called Csepel-type buildings, which contained six flats on each of their three storeys where a single staircase lead to outside corridors (Béke tér, Csepel; Lajos Gádoros, József Schall, 1948), the detached nine- storey building (“pontház”) of forty-eight flats at No. 61 Fő utca, district I across the Danube from the Parliament (Pál Németh, János Scultéty, Jenő Szilágyi, 1948-49), the three seven-storey “pontház" erected on an area bordered on three sides by Zápor utca, Föld utca and Törzs utca in Óbuda (Zoltán Vidos), or the two apartment blocks called “ossuaries" in architectural jargon which were built in 1948-49 to plans by István Hámor at Nos. 65-67 Zápor utca, district III (the three-storey construction featuring outside corridors is likely too have earned its nickname from its shape comprising a rectangular floorplan to which a multitude of staircases were attached at either end). While the construction of the three large, characteristic buildings forming the outer wall of the housing estate flanking Béke út was only begun in 1949 (Dezső Cserba, Ervin Schőmer, Zoltán Vidos, László Tarján), mention should here be made of the flat-roofed, six-storey, 24-flat apartment building at No. 44 Csalogány utca or another tenement block built in Lehel (1951-1990 Élmunkás) tér to provide housing for award-winning workers who had distinguished themselves in the nation-wide “Stakhano21