Gerle János: Palaces of Money - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1994)

THE GROUNDFLOOR FOYER OF THE HUNGARIAN NATIONAL Bank

is indeed one of the most significant precursors of modernism in architecture.

...Ödön Lechner’s design is outstanding, it is one of the best works by our enormously talented architect ... Looking at this huge and puritanical stone castle, miraculously transformed into something remarkably light and graceful by an extremely ingenious, attic closing done in Hungarian style, one cannot help being reminded of Zecca by the great Sansovino. Our ever-youthful master has vir32