Calvinist Girls' College, Sepsiszentgyörgy

The school buildings designed by Károly Kós in Sepsiszentgyörgy are closely connected to the organizational efforts following the change of sovereignty, as the missing educational infrastructure had to be established. Among these, one of the most outstanding is the Reformed Girls’ School, situated in a prominent location in the city, on the elevated ground above the former promenade and main square, along today’s Gábor Áron Street.

Károly Kós designed several school buildings during his career, the first being the school complex in Városmajor, Budapest (1910). As in many of his earlier works, the tower here also plays a crucial organizing role within an asymmetrical composition enclosed by steep roof planes. Through the arrangement of masses—most notably the emphatically positioned entrance tower—Kós articulates the otherwise simple, plastered façade surfaces.

It is scarcely apparent that the building has four storeys: through refined use of materials, including a modest stone plinth and brick bands between the upper-floor windows, Kós created a welcoming urban public building. Although a later extension in the 1960s lengthened the building along the street and compromised its original asymmetrical massing, the original architectural concept still succeeds in harmoniously articulating and dominating the enlarged scale and volume.

The façade was restored around 2010. The building continues to serve its original function and today operates as the Károly Kós School Centre, bearing the name of its architect.