Works by Karoly Kos

In July 1909, Toroczkai Wigand Ede invited Kós Károly to collaborate on the competition announced for the seat of Maros–Torda County.

The influence of Voysey is evident in this design for an Exhibition Hall. The symmetrical gables stand on either side of a central tower crowned with a timber finial.

This design represents a surprising departure from Kós’s earlier rural houses conceived for hillside sites.

The design prepared for Sovata shows an almost complete correspondence with the drawing titled Hungarian Farmstead at the Foot of the Vlădeasa, published on page 37 of Old Kalotaszeg

This small church shows many parallels with Kós’s drawing entitled Hungarian Church in Kalotaszeg, published in Old Kalotaszeg.

“It was in that autumn [in fact, January 1910] that György Bernády, the all-powerful lord lieutenant and mayor of Marosvásárhely, who had been staying in Budapest for several days, invi

“The harmony of the stylistic features of traditional folk architecture and modern art.” (Erdei Gyöngyi: A mintaadó polgármester. Bárczy István beruházási programja (1906–1914).

This project belongs to a small group of Voysey-inspired designs, characterized by large white-painted façade planes and symmetrically arranged gables.

Initiatives had already begun prior to the turn of the century to create independent buildings for the Székely National Museum that had been established in 1879.

“Wigand had […] a design commission that he did not dare to undertake on his own: a residential house had to be designed in Cluj (and supervised on site, with full accounting) for János

Excerpt from the jury report:

The house designed for the attorneys Károly and István Keresztes integrates harmoniously into the character of the row houses on its street and enriches the existing historic surroundings.