Works by Karoly Kos
‘So that the artificial rock does not appear so barren, we set a small Norwegian House upon its southern slopes, aligned with the grand avenue of trees.
The Dairy Canteen is a shingle-roof cottage with a simple, boarded balcony andopen porch, artistically clinging to the steep slope of the Big Rock.
‘The Poultry Run, in which a wide variety of types can be raised, could be of special interest to the public of Budapest. Turkeys, hens, and ducks live in the setting ofa small villagefarm.
“The harmony of the stylistic features of traditional folk architecture and modern art.” (Erdei Gyöngyi: A mintaadó polgármester. Bárczy István beruházási programja (1906–1914).
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.
The first sketches were radically different from the final versions of the designs.
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.
„Az épület történetéhez tartozik az is, hogy az eredeti programmon kívül ugyancsak a múzeum telkén, a múzeumépület nyers befejezésekor azonnal hozzáfogtunk két múzeumőri lakóház építéséhez is,
The Lecture Hall, the Director's Office and Residence and the Music Pavilion were never realised.
This housing estate conceived by the Wekerle administration in 1908 was one of the largest of its kind in Europe and was constructed with the character of a garden city at a site that was then outs
“This church is the creation of the Hungarian spirit, and the Hungarian style that has arisen from this spirit is a treasure.” (Debreczeni László: A kolozsvári monostori-úti református tem
“And then in autumn (1913), I obtained my most significant architectural commission up to this point, and in an entirely peculiar way as well, the duties as designer and construction overseer f
In September of 1913, Károly Kós set off on a month-long study tour of Transylvania with his colleague Dezső Zrumeczky. They mention Enyed (Sângătin, Romania) as one of their stops.
This was the largest hospital pavilion, with a symmetrical arrangement and an upper story.
This was a single-story building with a symmetrical ground plan. The entrances opened from separate terraces on either side of the central section that projected outward from the main façade.