1989 – Bird’s eye view maps. Starting with Budapest, the lush, surreal dreams have been replaced by bird’s eye view cityscapes of actual cities - looking like illustrations of children’s stories. Budapest, Hungary, Szentendre – these large (the original of Budapest is more than 2 meters in length) illustrations are map-like cityscapes, but not accurate maps. They represent the essence, the summary of the city, bird’s eye view through the eyes of the artist. Being an architect, Béla constructed the buildings and bridges rather than simply sketched them. The buildings stand as firmly as the actual buildings because he knows what happens under the roof of the houses.

Béla tells stories about the city with his ink lines, houses, buildings, buses, underground railways that cannot be seen anymore – they were buried, demolished, rebuilt long ago.
In contrast to the simplified, faceless, stereotypical visual experience of computer effects,
his bird’s eye view maps have many things for you to discover and to marvel about for hours, weeks, or even months.

They allow questions to arise in the viewer; they raise interest and arouse the desire to discover the life depicted in the pictures.
The bird’s eye view maps were made with a technical pen on tracing paper.

The drawing technique was inspired by the writing technique of Gabriel García Márquez – nowadays, the artist works still freehand but with a digital pen on a digital tablet.