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

bathrooms and dressing-rooms. The difference in floor space between the two levels was taken up by a gigantic L-shaped terrace completing the first floor.

The former Szegő Villa (Somlói utca 33/A) was also built for a wealthy member of the middle class. This single-storey apartment was composed of an approximately sixty-square-meter living room built on the central axis of the house, two bedrooms separated by a bathroom and a dressing room behind it on the right-hand side, and a dining room on the left. Kozma described this building in following terms: The kernel of the flat resides in the spatial complex combining the living room, the dining room and the terrace. The openings of these three spatial units are diversified; the living room is open on its narrower side, half of the dining room walls are made of glass, and two sides of the terrace are open as well.

At some distance from the Szegő Villa (heavily damaged during the war) stood the villa designed by Károly Dávid Jr. for himself at Somlói út 76 (completely destroyed during World War II). This was the only building in Hungary displaying the influence of Le Corbusier, and was designed by a young architect at the beginning of his career, who was later to make the plans of the departure hall of Ferihegy airport as well as to become the celebrated creator of the People’s Stadium.

In the apartment villa built in the former Mész utca

The former Szegő Villa was damaged during the war. It was transformed beyond recognition in the course of its reconstruction. Somlói út 33/A

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