Works by Béla Lajta
, 1904 (1st prize)|Zenta (today Senta, Serbia)
, 1905 (3rd prize)|Budapest, V. Balassi Bálint utca|
Dezső Malonyay acquired the building lot at 5 Izsó Street on July 3, 1905. Béla Lajta’s drawings received official approval in September the same year.
The first significant public institution designed by Lajta was commissioned by the Jewish Congregation of Pest and financed from the foundation established by the last will of master builder
, 1905–1906|Budapest, V. Hercegprímás utca 11.
Béla Lajta was one of founders of the bourgeois-middle class club called ’Club of Erzsébetváros’ ('Erzsébetvárosi Kaszinó'), which he also served as arts advisor.
The decoratively yet monumentally concieved storeront at 15 Szent István Square was added to the wholesale textile shop of Jónás Hecht and Son in late 1907, to adorn the ground floor offices
The society, which, apart from providing the Jews of Budapest with the necessary burial rituals also operated a number of charitable institutions decided to build three new such institutions in its
The Bárd brothers, who had commissioned the interior design of their music shop in 1900, had a villa planned by Lajta in 1906, which, however, never got constructed.
According to our present knowledge, Béla Lajta's relationship with the Pest Chevra Kadisa, the Jewish community's burial society (responsible for the arrangement of its funeral matters and the main
Proprietor of the ’Ancient Buda Castle’ amusement district in Városliget (City Park), Adolf Friedmann first meant to have his winter night club built at 57, Dohány Street.
, 1908–1914|
Elek Koronghi Lippich, head of the Department of Art of the Ministry of Public Education and Religious Affairs between 1899 and 1912 had definite views on art politics.
, 1910|Budapest, I. Szent György tér
The Vas Street Trade School was the most generously funded project in the municipal program for residential and educational building construction launched in 1909 by Mayor István Bárczy.
"Kapunk tehát egy gyönyörű monumentális teret a város közepén, amelynek északi oldalán a Szt.