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From the latter half of the 19th century, the housing reform movement, aimed at improving the living conditions of lower social classes, fought for the construction of healthy and affordable housin
The exterior of the distinctively triangular city block formed by the intersection of Villányi and Bartók Béla roads at Móricz Zsigmond Circle does not stand out from the multitude of commonplace e
The thought and actions aimed at reforming housing in large cities took a new direction after the First World War.
A floorplan system became fixed in the construction of apartments in Budapest in the final decades of the 19th century that was comprised of large, nearly identical rooms who
The row house was essentially non-existent as a possible choice amongst the housing types in Budapest until the end of the 1920s.
The central ideas affecting housing in progressive international architectural thought following the First World War became spatial efficiency, minimal housing, and housing standards.
The transformation of apartment houses into condominiums began to spread as a new business practice in Budapest in the first half of the 1920s.
Cooperative Building Associations
Géza Balthazár was born in 1911 and Magdolna Balogh in 1912, both in Budapest and both into the families of civil servants.
A Housing Block with Connected Courtyards
One representative of the typical triangular blocks of houses bordering the circuses of the Lágymányos district is the block bounded by Kosztolányi Dezső Square, Bocskai Road, Tas vezér Street and
Éva was born in a village called Hortobágy in 1917. In those years, her agriculturist father was the director of the Hortobágy branch of Fish Farming Plc. (Haltenyésztő Rt.).