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

Original title: Szocreál Translation by Ákos Farkas Revised by Bob Dent

Text © Endre Prakfalvi, 1999 Photos © Gábor Barka, 1999 English translation © 1999 Ákos Farkas

Photos and reproductions by Gábor Barka

Archive photos are from the collection of the OMvH Museum of Hungarian Architecture; the picture on page 26 is from the photo archives of EIVATERV.

On the cover:

Ferenc Medgyessy’s glazed terracotta mural with the caption “All power belongs to the working people" (1953) inside the Csepel police office

Inside covers:

Pál Németh-Gyula Tálos: Design of the Bureau of Planning for the Forge and Machine Industry (excerpt), 1951

Title page:

Entrance to building “R” of BME (Budapest University of Technology)

ISSN 1215-8909 ISBN 963 8376 95 3

Published by the Municipality of Budapest, Office of the Mayor Publisher: The Mayor of Budapest Series editor: Gyöngyvér Török Series designer: Vera Köböl

Publishing administration by Sík Kiadó Kft.

Typeset by Szóköz Bt.

Colour resolution by StuArt Repro Printed by Egyetemi Nyomda, Budapest - 1999