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

Cultural Centre of MOM (Hungarian Optics Factory)

while the other rooms of the facility can be used for the purposes of training and education, reported Szabad Nép. The cultural centre of the National Worsted Mill (Soroksári út, district IX, 1950) was also built to plans by Károly Dávid, the architect of the People's Stadium, while an institution of similar purposes was designed for the Ikarusz bus factory by Oszkár Winkler from the city of Sopron (1953, interior design by István Németh). Kamill and Gyula Kismarty-Lechner co-operated on plans for the House of Bulgarian Culture, a construction with an elegant fagade standing in district IX (62 Vágóhíd utca). Here it is only the ornaments on the column capitals which still make a nostalgic allusion to the style of Socialist Realism (1954-57). The structure at the entrance to the “Vidám Park” or fun fair also deserves mention here (Gyula Kéri, 1953; the ornamental iron railing was designed by Géza Buczkó).

A few other works from the period before 1956 deserve a measure of attention according to their relative merits. In 1953, the construction of a group of buildings designed

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