QA801 - Villa Dálnoki-Kováts in Budapest
Int 234; 31552 Docill 81; 9879
Fig. 801 (p. 962) - The Villa Dálnoki-Kováts in Budapest XII by the Hungarian painter, architect and activist Farkas Molnar was built in 1932.
Molnar (1897 – 1945) was a leading member of the Modern Movement and had ties with the Bauhaus. He designed houses with a strong emphasis on volume and its visibility. The circular line was introduced to soften the edges, like the Villa Dálnoki-Kováts in Budapest
The importance of volume in the design of a building reached a new stage with the introduction of the circular added to the square volume. Drawing by Marten Kuilman.
www.hung-art.hu/frames-e.html?/english/m/molnar_f/
The ‘Fine Arts in Hungary’ site gives the following biography:
‘Architect. He studied at the Technical University and the Art School in Budapest, then at Bauhaus in Weimar as a pupil of W. Gropius. His constructivist plan of ‘Red Boxhouse’ attracted a lot of attention at a Bauhaus exhibition in 1923. From 1927 onwards he worked in Budapest first together with Pál Ligeti, later on his own and together with József Fischer. He built mostly villas. His works are outstanding buildings of constructivist and functionalist architecture in Hungary. He represented Hungary at CIAM, an international organization of modern architects, and was the leader of the Hungarian CIAM group from 1928 to 1938. His articles published in the Hungarian magazin ‘Tér és Forma’ contributed to the popagation of modern architecture. His major works include villas in Lejtő utca, Harangvirág utca, Lotz Károly utca, Székács utca etc., and the block of flats at 2 Toldy Ferenc utca in Budapest’.
‘ The Red Cube’, a project by Farkas Molnar is given as plate 23 in:
ROWE, Colin (1976). The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England.
ISBN 0-262-18077-4
moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3ADE%3A...|G%3ARE%3AE%3A1&page_number=12&template_id=1&sort_order=1
A linocut ‘Konstruction’ (29 x 29 cm) by Farkas Molnar was recently required by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
quadralectics.wordpress.com/5-essentials/5-1-space/5-1-1-...
QA801 - Villa Dálnoki-Kováts in Budapest
Int 234; 31552 Docill 81; 9879
Fig. 801 (p. 962) - The Villa Dálnoki-Kováts in Budapest XII by the Hungarian painter, architect and activist Farkas Molnar was built in 1932.
Molnar (1897 – 1945) was a leading member of the Modern Movement and had ties with the Bauhaus. He designed houses with a strong emphasis on volume and its visibility. The circular line was introduced to soften the edges, like the Villa Dálnoki-Kováts in Budapest
The importance of volume in the design of a building reached a new stage with the introduction of the circular added to the square volume. Drawing by Marten Kuilman.
www.hung-art.hu/frames-e.html?/english/m/molnar_f/
The ‘Fine Arts in Hungary’ site gives the following biography:
‘Architect. He studied at the Technical University and the Art School in Budapest, then at Bauhaus in Weimar as a pupil of W. Gropius. His constructivist plan of ‘Red Boxhouse’ attracted a lot of attention at a Bauhaus exhibition in 1923. From 1927 onwards he worked in Budapest first together with Pál Ligeti, later on his own and together with József Fischer. He built mostly villas. His works are outstanding buildings of constructivist and functionalist architecture in Hungary. He represented Hungary at CIAM, an international organization of modern architects, and was the leader of the Hungarian CIAM group from 1928 to 1938. His articles published in the Hungarian magazin ‘Tér és Forma’ contributed to the popagation of modern architecture. His major works include villas in Lejtő utca, Harangvirág utca, Lotz Károly utca, Székács utca etc., and the block of flats at 2 Toldy Ferenc utca in Budapest’.
‘ The Red Cube’, a project by Farkas Molnar is given as plate 23 in:
ROWE, Colin (1976). The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England.
ISBN 0-262-18077-4
moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3ADE%3A...|G%3ARE%3AE%3A1&page_number=12&template_id=1&sort_order=1
A linocut ‘Konstruction’ (29 x 29 cm) by Farkas Molnar was recently required by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
quadralectics.wordpress.com/5-essentials/5-1-space/5-1-1-...