Melyik ház a „kockaház”? Mit mond a művelt középosztály egy munkásháztípusról?
What is the ‘Cube’ House? How does the Educated Middle Class See a Type of Workers’

Summary/Abstract: Spread across the entire Carpathian Basin, the so-called ‘cube’ houses developed as a separate type of workers’ house in the 1950s, and began to mushroom in suburban areas and rural settlements with industrialised sources of income. Their owners relinquished their peasant status and wished to represent their new standing with their new homes. The middle class, mostly intellectuals expressing their opinion in written media, watched them with not even thinly veiled dismay. They saw them as unoriginal, uniform, and unfit both architecturally and as a home to maintain rural lifestyle, yet they pointed out astutely that social mobility was the reason for its popularity. As Miklós Mojzer correctly stated, ‘this model found its way to the hearts of the masses who have just abandoned their peasant lifestyles and are now filled with the desires of the petit burgeoisie’. The history of the deprecation of the new workers’ homes is associated with the history of the burgeois middle class itself: people who had managed to elevate themselves above the old boundary line of the former estate society and wished to preserve their social status in this middle position.

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