Book title : BUDAPEST, HOUSES, BUILDINGS
Photographs by D. Eisma
Text by L. Szöke and D. Eisma
Editor D. Eisma
The first buildings in Budapest were made in Roman times, but only their foundations remain. The Romans already built public health spa’s, based on the hot springs along the river banks, which still attract many visitors. Of Medieval buildings also not much remains today: only fragments and reconstructions that can be seen on Castle Hill and on Margitsziget island in the Danube river. During the Renaissance not much was built in Budapest because during that time it was part of the Turkish empire; the Turks only left some baths and a large tomb. Therefore the buildings that still can be seen in Budapest today date from the 18th century or later : Baroque (mostly churches), followed by the neoclassicist palaces, houses and churches of the first half of the 19th century and after 1850 by the multitude and variety of buildings and houses in other neostyles and a Hungarian form of Jugendstil. This lasted well into the 20th century when gradually modern buildings and houses were constructed. Before 1850 Budapest remained relatively small and Buda, Óbuda and Pest were seperate communities. Between 1848 and 1873 Budapest became one of the capitals of the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy (the other one was Vienna) and the town quickly expanded, an expansion that has continued up to the present.
Wealth, power, industry, trade and culture came to Budapest with the monarchy, and Buda, Óbuda and Pest were united. New churches, public buildings, aristrocratic palaces, houses, banks, schools, universities and baths were built and large public parks created. After 1920, and especially after 1940, building declined because of the reduction of Hungary to its present size as a result of the First World War, the economic recession in the twenties and thirsties, fascism, the Second World war, and communism. Much was destroyed at the end of the Second World war and during the uprising against Soviet rule in 1956, but much has been restored to its original splendour.
Single photo’s that appear in the book can be ordered by typing the address below. Then a small picture appears of the photo that was made of a house or building at that particular address, together with a code. By clicking on the code the photo can be ordered.
The costs are :
* A digitized photo at 300 dpi (for general use) € 170.-
* A digitized photo at 72 dpi (for use in e.g. a website) € 110.-
Photo prints can be obtained in the following formats :
* 12x18 cm at € 15.-
* 18x27 cm at € 23.-
* 24x36 cm at € 30.-
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