The House Spatial
The House Spatial

Summary/Abstract: The New House: Lajos Kozma’s Modern Villas. Exhibition at the Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, 26 November–13 May 2007. Lajos Kozma (1884–1948) enjoyed a high reputation but was nevertheless a solitary figure in modern Hungarian architecture and design. He was born several decades before the pioneers of Hungarian avant-garde architecture and proceeded streets ahead of his contemporaries. His work straddled the generations and perplexed his contemporaries; posterity has tended to classify it into periods according to genre. Such a division readily offers itself, since Kozma was significant as a graphic artist and interior designer as well as an architect. Articles about him published in a commemorative issue of the modernist journal Új Építészet (New Architecture, 1949, No. 23) shortly after his death dealt separately with these three aspects. A book published some twenty-five years later— Judith Koós’s Kozma Lajos munkássága. Grafika, iparmûvészet, építészet (L.K.’s Creative Achievements: Graphic Art, Applied Art, Architecture. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1975) — retained that partitioning without attempting to provide a view of his work as a coherent whole.

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