Károly Kós (1883-1977)

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Architect Kâroly Kös was the leading representative of the Hungarian Art Nouveatt and National Romanticism in the early years of the twentieth century. Hisapproach to architecture was influenced by John Ruskin and William Morris. He opposed mass production and propagated individual solutions inspired by folk architecture. He was interested in the medieval art but did not imitate it. From such sources however, he drew principles of proporlion, form and solutions of architectural details. His buildings feature elements of folk architecture from Kaloiaszeg region, as observed in an apartment house in Budapest (1908-1909). Among his most important achievements are: the church in Zcbegcnyi village (1908-1909), inspired by medieval forms, a pavilion in Budapest zoological garden (1910), derived from folk architectural forms; a complex of school buildings in Budapest (1910) with stone arches at the entrances, characteristic for Kös, the National Museum building in Scpsiszenlgyorgy, Romania (1911-1912); reformed church in Kolozsvar (1913), family home (Crow's Castle, 1910). Apart from his architectural activities, he wrote and illustrated books: Songs about KingAtti/a, Stones of Transylvania, Kalak's Calendar, Nation of Crows. He taught architecture in Agricultural College in Kolozsvar till he retired. His life was very active and he never left the people of Kaloiaszeg, his chosen motherland.

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Kiiroly Kös, Macar Mimarlığı, Art Nouveaıı, Ulusal Romantizm, Mimarlık Tarihi, Yöresel Mimarlık

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/51089
http://jfa.arch.metu.edu.tr/archive/0258-5316/1994/cilt14/sayi_1_2/59-70.pdf

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ODTÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi

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Department of Architecture, Article

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T. Pinter, “Károly Kós (1883-1977),” ODTÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 14, no. 1-2, pp. 59–70, 1994, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/51089.