Works by Karoly Kos

'Although the Pheasant House was modelled upon its counterpart in the Berlin zoo, our own architects have followed their Hungarian inspirations in choosing a style from the home country of wood

The Deer House resembles the wooden houses of by-gone years on the slopes of the Transylvanian Alps, including the traditional cellular plan-form of the Kalotaszeg/Tara Cälatei region.

“Thus, I acquired a small bit of land on a steep hillside in Sztána (Stana) above the station, and there I stuck a little house.” (Kós Károly: Életrajz. Szerk.: Benkő Samu.

A design competition for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Cluj was announced in February 1909.

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.

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.

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

“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.