Works by Karoly Kos

After 1919, the student population of the Székely Mikó College increased significantly, making the conversion of the gymnasium a necessity.

In January 1933, the young Unitarian congregation of Brașov approached Károly Kós through the mediation of Kálmán Kovács, a teacher from Cluj, regarding the design of a new church.

Based on the surviving drawings, this large-scale building on the plot at 23 King Matthias Square, a site characteristic of Cluj’s historic urban core.

The buildings designed for the small Kalotaszeg community respond directly to local needs and economic possibilities.

Kós Károly’s original design is striking in that the building simultaneously presents two contrasting façades: an asymmetrical eastern front characteristic of his work, and a symmetrical western fa

The two-storey building that had stood on the same site, with semicircular windows on the ground floor, was demolished by the Calvinist Church in 1992–1993, and the Reménység Háza (House of Hope) w

Rural farms and standard designs

In 1935, the leadership of the Roman Catholic Girls’ Club in Cluj purchased a plot of land at Lake Gyilkos.

The collection of artefacts that would form the basis of the Kalotaszeg Museum began in 1933, comprising 678 objects with a total value exceeding 100,000 lei.

The single-storey building standing in the garden behind the Calvinist girls’ secondary school (1926) contained dormitory rooms, a small basement, and a tower room, which most likely served as a re

From the mid-1930s onward, rural and agricultural architecture became the central focus of Kós’s work, followed in the 1940s and 1950s by his teaching activity at the agricultural school in Cluj an

A Romanesque church dating from the 13th–14th centuries, rebuilt several times over the centuries. It acquired its present form in 1720. Its restoration was directed by Kós Károly in 1936.