Veszter Gábor: Villas in Budapest. From the compromise of 1867 to the beginning of World War II - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1997)

Napraforgó utca 2 (Gyula Wälder) can be seen today as it was originally built

shape was only disrupted by the superstructure of its roof terrace. Its plain facades were broken through by unframed openings, with only a small balcony completing the first-floor bedroom protruding on the plain surface of the front. Their building, divided by large horizontal windows, was in fact one of the earliest and the most consistently executed examples of Bauhaus architecture in Hungary, which is no surprise, since one of its designers had returned only a few years before from the Bauhaus, where he had already generated much sensation with the plans of his red cubic house. This Napraforgó utca villa was one of his first plans actually brought to realisation, there having been up to that point no occasion for submitting Bauhaus theory to practice.

The exterior aspect of the villas in Napraforgó utca is diversified. Most of the buildings are flat roofed, but a few saddle or tent roofs can also be seen. Only Ligeti and Molnár, as well as József Fischer actually exploited the possibility of providing the flat roof with a terrace. Terraces exceeding ten square metres in dimension and taking up part of the upper floor were, however, frequent, just as were middle-sized terraces stretching before the

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