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

did little to reduce expenses or improve quality, and the equipment and material used was not the best either.

In accordance with the tenets of city-planning theory, several elementary schools were built in the 1950s to serve as fundamental units of residential areas. Some of the more characteristic of these are the twelve-classroom school of the Fiastyúk utca housing estate in district XIII (Kálmán Jankó, Dezső Papp), another twelve-classroom one in Czakó utca (Tibor Gáspár), a third twelve-classroom building in ív utca, district XXI (Imre Csekme), an eight- classroom institution in Mártírok utca, district XX (Vilmos Tárnok), a further one in Attila út, district I (István Tóth), a school with eight classrooms in Keresztúri út, district X (Nándor Körmendy), and yet another one containing twelve classrooms in Bartók Béla út, district XI (László S. Nagy).

An educational building representing the style of the period in its essence is the Rákóczi Ferenc II Cadet School in Mátyásföld (today’s College of Foreign Trade at 22-24 Diósy Lajos utca, district XVI; László Fodor, László Wagner, from 1952). Its large-scale sculptural decoration composed of reliefs featuring scenes of the 1703-11 Rákóczi Uprising, the 1848^19 Revolution and War of Independence and the portraits of various military leaders from the 15th to the 17th centuries was made by Gábor Boda (1955).

Housing estate on Nagy Lajos király út

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