Works by Karoly Kos

The Small Country House (the original design was later built in 1910 for Kós’s parents) belongs to the genre of artist’s houses with studios and can be traced back to precedents such as Akseli Gall

Design for a house with a small attic. The square ground plan with an entrance porch placed at the corner appears frequently in Kós’s sketch designs.

The Church-Building Committee established in 1883 in the settlement north of Budapest on the banks of the Danube originally commissioned László Gyalus to design a new Catholic church.

“Zrumeczky approached me with the news that we might receive a commission for the design, site supervision, and accounting of the Reformed parish building and prayer hall in Óbuda—if we

The lecture hall, the administrative building, and the bandstand were not realized (the bandstand, in a simplified form, was eventually built near the entrance).

The Capital Zoo and Botanical Garden, originally opened in 1866, was taken over by the Municipality of Budapest in 1907, the same year in which a comprehensive reconstruction was

“So that the rocky hill should not appear desolate, we place a small Norwegian house on its southern slope, along the axis of the great avenue of trees.

The Dairy canteen is a simple shingled hut with a porch featuring a wooden balustrade, picturesquely anchored into the steep face of the Great Rock.

“The Poultry Yard may be of particular interest to the metropolitan public, as it allows for the breeding of a wide variety of species.

The Monkey House, the smaller Rodents House, and the Kangaroo House enclose a small square.

The Bird House is the central element of the pavilion group designed for the Zoo.

“…in the corner appears the lower house of the ostriches, striking in its vivid colors; around it are large yards in which these large bird giants, kept in greater numbers, can roam.