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Villa Klinger (Budapest), southern facade

Lajos Kozma (architect)

Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest

Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest
Budapest, Hungary

Built in Herman Ottó Street in 1933‒1934, next to a two-home villa designed by Kozma in 1931, this house was commissioned by István Klinger, a dentist, for his dentist son and his wife. Commanding a beautiful view of Sváb Hill and János Hill, the modelling of this detached house shows Kozma at his best. The three-storey villa stands on a steeply sloping plot, and has its ground floor level with the street, while the basement communicates with the garden. Parts ‘missing and added’ play a powerful role in the modelling of the volume of the house, which comprises storeys with different floor plans but has the overall effect of a cube. The most spectacular feature of the house was a wide terrace, forcefully projecting from the wall plane, almost floating, thanks to the reinforced concrete cantilever beams that supported it. It was shaded by a striped sunshade that could be extended with a scissor mechanism. Kozma would employ the rhythmic succession of beams as a decorative solution in other buildings as well.
by Éva Horányi in: Éva Horányi (ed.) Modern Buildings by Lajos Kozma. 2006. Budapest, p. 98.

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  • Title: Villa Klinger (Budapest), southern facade
  • Creator: Lajos Kozma (architect)
  • Creator Lifespan: 1884-1948
  • Date Created: 1933
  • Location Created: Budapest
  • Subject Keywords: applied arts, furniture, desing, Modernism, architecture
  • Type: drawing
  • Rights: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0, Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, 2024
  • External Link: Lajos Kozma, furniture by Lajos Kozma
  • Medium: tracing paper
  • Art Genre: applied arts
  • Art Movement: Modernism
Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest

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