ABSTRACT
The idea of preserving our recent heritage was pioneered very early in Hungary compared with other European countries. Thefirst nation-wide list of Hungarian historic monuments, published in 1960, contained some items from the turn-of-the-centuryand even from the inter-war years, although the most recent ones did not belong to the Modern Movement. The Committee of Architectural History and Theory within the Hungarian Academy of Sciences applied to the National Board for the Protectionof Historic Monuments with the request to enter twentieth century buildings on the list, as early as 1963. The committee drewup a list of twenty-two additional buildings from which ten were modern, and all of them were included in the 1967 nationallist. Though the committee expressed its intention to continue the work of registering and upgrading the list with new items,almost ten years passed until the next step was taken.
