Béla Lajta: Commerce School

This commerce school was built 1909-1910. It is an example of

rationalist architecture before World War I. The volume is partitioned

assymmetrically, with two tower-shaped blocks, which close between

them the classes and the gathering rooms. The pinnacles give the

building space and authority. The influence of German brick

constructions is visible in the 'columns' of the facade. The

verticality is emphasized, and this has a Gothic effect. The flat

ornaments over the entrances remind popular art, but they are reduced

to geometric reliefs and so the building belongs to pre-Modernism.