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several by other architects. The buildings are presented in what appears to be a chronological order, and the building at Városmajor utca 50 is the second in sequence and the first with photos, suggesting that it was the first project that resulted in an actual building. When the authors emigrated to the United States they were able in reissue the book, together with an introduction by
32:. The Hungarian architects Viktor and Aladar Olgyay designed the building in 1940 for Siklósi Tschögl Miklós (Nicholas W. Tschoegl) and his great aunt, Tschögl Boriska. The building was one of the Olgyays' earliest commissions and incorporated a number of unusual and innovative features; it is still standing in 2015.
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At the time Tschögl Miklós was in his early 20s, and a director of the Tschögl family's firm, Hoffman József, a wholesaler of imported coffee, tea, spices, and the like. After the government closed the firm in 1948, he fled
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Another feature, unusual for the time, was that the building housed an underground garage. A tenant, arriving by car, could drive down a ramp that led through a tunnel to the garage, which was separate from the rest of the building, and which was under the garden. Someone arriving by car could park
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Olgyay and Olgyay (1900), pp. 12-6. Unfortunately, their book has no table of contents or index, and no systematic listing of when the projects were designed or built. The authors put the book together in 1946 by combining drawings, plans, and photos, and descriptions in
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In addition to the basement (Floor 0), which housed a laundry, the mechanicals, and the air-raid shelter, the building had four floors of apartments. The second, third, and fourth floors each had three one-room apartments and two three-room apartments, each of which had a bathroom and WC. By
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and his identical twin brother Aladar promoted climate-responsive architecture. They fled
Hungary in 1947 and re-established their architectural practice in the United States. There, in the 1950s, they formalized bioclimatic, i.e., passive solar, design as a discipline within the field of
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The "inward facing" concept was something that appealed to Tschögl Miklós, being congruent with his studies of Latin and his knowledge of ancient Roman house plans. He had a particular liking for the concept of a house closed off to the streets, with an atrium inside.
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south, for light. Kitchens, maids' rooms, and the staircase face the street. The larger apartments on each side of each floor of the building have a window and small balcony facing the street, but the three one-room apartments face only the garden.
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Boriska (né Gaszner Boriska) was the widow of Tschögl Henrik (Heinrich Tschögl), and a former ballerina from the Hungarian opera. She continued to live in her apartment in the building and died there in March 1962 at the age of 95.
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inference, the first floor had three apartments, and the entrance from the street through to the garden. One of the apartments on the first floor belonged to Tschögl
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The top floor had a roof terrace with a study, a partially covered verandah, a garden, and a shower. This was accessible via a private staircase from the apartment of Tschögl Miklós. During the
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