TRANSFORMATIONS OF HUNGARIAN TRADITIONAL TOWN CENTERS IN THE ERA OF SOCIALISM - TWO CASE STUDIES/SPREMEMBE MADZARSKIH TRADICIONALNIH MESTNIH JEDER V CASU SOCIALIZMA - DVA PRIMERA

Present essay summarises the history of two Hungarian towns related to centralising institutional development in the State Socialist Era, both are characteristic, although still unique in many respect. As these buildings of special importance were built typically in central areas, their relationship with the already existing historic centres is an important question. For the author, one of the main conclusions of the presented two examples is that a basically positive development decision regarding urban structure later can take different directions in the course of refining development schemes, and architectural detailing. While development in Kecskemet became fiasco because of its disproportion, neglect of contextual scale, in Szekszard the presence of the building ensemble is acceptable because of the refined balance of architectural details, and it is reinforcing the urban ideas.