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

Napraforgó utca 8 (Lajos Kozma) has kept its original form, including the large terrace also serving as projecting roof over the entrance

building. Lajos Kozma succeeded in creating something rather original at Mo. 8. He led the balcony, supported by two slender pillars standing by the garden gate, down to the limit of the plot, ensuring thus a porch-like entrance and a sunny terrace to a house built on one of the least favourably situated plots. The only house with a large covered loggia was designed by László Vágó (Mapraforgó utca 13, today Mo. 11). It is worth mentioning that his conception of architecture, developed in the years before the war, strongly influenced the design of his two villas in the project. Both fit harmoniously into the general character of the street. They do not strike any dissonant chord and yet, compared to the boundless outward-looking tendency adopted by the post-war generation, his buildings seem to have maintained a striving for privacy, which characterises them in the relation between inner and outer space in a most expressive way. The ground floor terrace of Mapraforgó utca 1, surrounded on three sides by walls, and the first-floor loggia of Mo. 13 (today Mo. 11) give the impression to anyone sitting there of being both outside in the fresh air and at the same time within the closed world of the home. Alone Gyula Wälder did not grasp the opportunities a house to be built in a residential area offered. His house (Mapraforgó utca 2) has no terrace, and the tiny,

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