TY  - BOOK
AU  - Torok,Andras
AU  - Wachsler, Tamas.
TI  - The remarkable Hungarian parliament building
SN  - 9786155674006
AV  - KD 219.H9 T67R 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Budapest
PB  - The Office of the National Assembly
KW  - Public buildings
KW  - Hungary
KW  - Budapest
KW  - Budapest (Hungary)
KW  - Buildings, structures
N1  - INTRODUCTION --
AT FIRST GLANCE --
DIMENSIONS --
FUNCTION --
STYLE --
ORNAMENTATION --
ORDER --
HOW IT WAS BUILT --
THE PLOT --
THE DECISION AND THE TENDER --
IMRE STEINDL, DESIGNER, AND BUILDER --
THE CONSTRUCTION --
A TRADITIONAL BUILDING WITH MODERN TECHNOLOGY --
THE PART OPEN TO THE PUBLIC --
A MAIN ENTRANCE RARELY USED --
STAIRWAYS, LIFTS AND CORRIDORS --
THE DOME HALL AND THE HOLY CROWN --
THE HOLY CROWN --
THE TWO LOUNGES --
GALLERY OF CRAFTS --
THE TWO CHAMBERS --
IN THE TEMPEST OF HISTORY --
THE BIRTH AND TRIBULATIONS OF THE PAINTING OF 'THE HUNGARIAN CONQUEST OF THE CARPATHIAN BASIN' --
A LESSON IN HISTORY IN TWENTY-FOUR PICTURES --
THE PARLIAMENT BUILDING'S RESIDENTS --
DURING AND AFTER THE SIEGE OF BUDAPEST --
THE PARLIAMENT BUILDING AFTER 1945 --
1956 BY THE PARLIAMENT BUILDING AND THE SQUARE --
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS --
ENDLESS CORRIDORS ADORNED BY MIKSA ROTH'S WINDOWS --
THEK AND JUNGFER, THE TWO 'MASTER CRAFTSMEN' INDUSTRIALISTS --
THE HUNTER'S HALL AND ITS PAINTERS --
THE CROWN GUARDS --
THE PARLIAMENT GUARDS --
CARETAKERS OF THE PARLIAMENT BUILDING --
TRADITION AND INNOVATION --
LIPOTVAROS, PARLIAMENT DISTRICT --
THE STATUES ON THE SQUARE BEFORE 1945 --
THE SQUARE AFTER 1945 --
THE PARLIAMENTARY LIBRARY --
EXHIBITION SPACES AT THE MUSEUM OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY --
KOSSUTH SQUARE STATUE MINIPAEDIA --
APPENDIX --
PHOTO CREDITS BY PAGE --
FURTHER READING IN LANGUAGES OTHER THAN HUNGARIAN.


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