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DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY & THEORY OF ACHITECTURE AND HERITAGE CONSERVATION

ANNUAL CATALOGUE OF THE RESEARCH ACTIVITY

A. RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND SCIENTIFIC INITIATIVES OF THE DEPARTMENT

A1 - GRANTS, PROJECTS AND COLLECTIVE RESEARCH CONTRACTS

A1.1. Within U.A.U.I.M. / Inter-university

Chair of History and Theory

DERER, HANNA - coordinator for the 15 Ph.D. students of the University for Architecture and Urban Planning “Ion Mincu”. EDUCAŢI – Ph.D. Excellency in Humanistic Research: Interdisciplinary Applications and Theories. POSDRU/6/1.5/S/2 (Program director prof.univ.dr. Sorin Alexandrescu). Segmental Operational Program for the Development of Human Resources 2007-2013, Priority Axis 1, Major Intervention field 1.5. Beneficiary: the University „Bucharest“, national partner: the University for Architecture and Urban Planning “Ion Mincu”

IOAN, AUGUSTIN – The Identity of the Romanian Contemporary City- research grant (IDEAS/IDEI Program of CNCSIS) 2008-20010 with CCPEC/UAUIM, CIES/U.of Bucharest and Faculty of Philosophy/UBB Cluj. Partners and senior researchers: Augustin Ioan (CCPEC/UAUIM), Mihaela Irimia (CESIC/UB) and Cirpian Mihali (UBB Cluj) with several PhD students from the above mentioned centers.

The project aimed at recomposing - out of the various fragments from which it is made - the ever changing profile of the contemporary Romanian cities, especially by looking critically at the rhytmical movements of groups between internal cities and between these and cities abroad. Furthermore, the goal of the project was to articulate a position of urban expertise, to join the others of various NGOs working on cities (like Bucharest and Cluj).

Results: roundtable with CCCB Barcelona (with OAR Bucharest, within the Bucharest Biennale in 2008), a glossary of NGOs working on Bucharest; book: Augustin Ioan with Ciprian Mihali Dublu tratat de urbanologie (Double Treatise of Urbanology), Cluj, IDEA Press, 2009

ZAHARIADE, ANA MARIA - project director, UAR Grant (the Union of Romanian Architects) „Organizing the image archive of the Arhitectura Review (between 1950 and 1989)” – a research conducted along with assist. PhD students Miruna STROE and Irina TULBURE

Chair of Restoration-Conservation

BOŞTENARU DAN, MARIA - "Semantic Enrichment of 3D City Models for Sustainable Urban Development" (action COST TU0801, financed by the UE trough ESF), the University of Geneve, Switzerland, the University of Liege, Belgium, the University of Architecture and Urbanism-CSAU

NISTOR, SERGIU - Monumentele istorice- scoaterea din anonimat (Bringing into Prominence the Historic Monuments) The research comprises the selection of a number of 200 relevant historic monuments of national importance to be documented and publicly exposed through information panels mounted on the facades. Collaborators: lect. Arch. A. CRACIUNESCU and researcher C. BUZILĂ

A1.2. Within other institutions

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BĂNCESCU, IRINA – co-organizer within the Association for Urban Transition (ATU) of the EU-ROMA (EUropean ROma Mapping), European research project studying Roma communities living conditions. The project is part of the European Union program Cultura 2007 and is a collaboration between LAN (Laboratorio di Architettura Nomade), Napoli; ATU, Bucharest; the University of the Arts, London; TAMA, Athens

EU-ROMA is a 20-months project launching a European open confrontation on Roma housing issues and public space. It mobilises and cross-fertilises knowledge and experience from different domains like urban arts, architecture, humanities, sociology and human rights. Its activities take place between 11.2007-07.2009.

The project is aiming to build a global understanding of the living conditions of the Roma population in Europe: 13-15 million people spread all over the continent and concentrated mostly in suburban areas of big and medium cities. The extreme diversity and specificity of this most homogeneous distributed in territory European nation are the most important characteristics which, unexpectedly, are completely neglected in projects that are working for the Roma communities. One of the most striking and misunderstood differences is nomadism vs. migration, processes that rarely overlap in reality, but considered frequently one and the same thing by the local administrations. During the last years, along with the integration of the Eastern block, the phenomena of migration towards West accelerated and the scale of the Roma living conditions problem is expanding and becoming more intricate every day. In this last period the crisis got to the apex and there has been raised a real concern for the Roma situation in Europe. The project is trying to perceive it in terms of living space and human networks, through interdisciplinary perspectives and continuous interchange of knowledge at all levels.

EU-ROMA Consortium reunifies 4 organisation from 4 different EU countries, along with Macedonia and Serbia, partners who will take part in several project activities: Laboratorio di Architettura Nomade Naples (Italy), Asociatia pentru Tranzitie Urbana Bucharest (Romania), University of the Arts London - London College of Fashion (UK), Locus Athens (Greece). http://www.eu-roma.net/dblog/BĂNCESCU, IRINA – Roma Preview Pavilion (follow-up)

-participation with the Roma Pavilion in exhibitions in Romania: -MNAC (National Museum of Contemporary Art), 10.2008-03.2009; -MTR (Museum of Romanian Peasant), “Shukar”, Marina Obradovic, 03-04.2009; -“Street Delivery”, 06.2009

Roma Preview Pavilion Project was presented in the frame of Venice Architecture Biennial 2008, Out There Architecture Beyond Building, Venice 2008.

CRITICOS, MIHAELA - Study regarding the Historical, Architectural and Urbanistic Value of Băneasa International Airport, Bucharest , in 5+5 Buildings for the National Cultural Heritage 1950-1977 – stage II , cultural project of the Inforom Cultural Foundation funded from the stamp duty by the Order of Romanian Architects – NEMŢEANU, Ruxandra (coordinator)

This cultural project aims to draw up documentary materials with a view to promoting the cultural value of ten buildings from the architectural heritage of the period between 1950 and 1977, morally rehabilitating them and, finally, listing them as historical monuments. The architectural objects proposed and studied in a first pilot stage were five major buildings, landmarks of the cultural, administrative or tourist centres of the Capital or of other towns in Romania: the «H» Pavilion in Herăstrău Park, the State Circus and the EREN Pavilion in Bucharest, the National Theatre in Craiova and the State Theatre in Târgu-Mureş. For the stage stage, the proposed buildings are: the ensemble of Sala Palatului, the former “Ştefan Gheorghiu“Academy and the Băneasa Airport in Bucharest, the political-administrative head-offices of the town of Baia-Mare and the „Perla“restaurant in Eforie-Nord.

The studied buildings, as well as many other that belong to the Romanian architectural heritage of this period, are seriously threatened by the aggression of the real estate interests or uncontrolled interventions, presenting the risk of arbitrary, noxious and irreversible transformations not only of the buildings themselves, but also of their neighbourhoods.

The danger of these edifices being degraded, altered and destroyed is aggravated by the lack of a corresponding legal framework, considering that, in most cases, the authors (project coordinators) are deceased, and their intellectual rights are not taken over or protected by successors or legal persons concerned (foundations, professional organisations).

For the preservation and rehabilitation of the representative buildings erected after 1945, popularising their patrimonial value would be imperative, along with their classifying as historical monuments (which, however, current Romanian legislation allows only for ante-1960 buildings). This double approach is all the more difficult as, during the post-1945 period, the

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buildings in question were designed, to a great extent, within large state institutes, now privatised or dissolved together with their archives, which could have provided relevant data and documentations to a pertinent research.

Consequently, the major objectives of the project are, on the one hand, to inform and raise the authorities’, specialists’ and general public’s awareness about the values of post-war architecture in Romania, and particularly of this segment of the national architectural heritage (by means of presenting it on the site www.inforom-cultural.org and on CD-ROM with leaflet-cover distributed in free, itinerant exhibitions and tourist promotion), and, on the other hand, to prepare the necessary documentation for listing the buildings in question as historical monuments (historical and valuation studies, bibliographical and archive research, property deeds, novel testimonies regarding the authors of the projects, period and present day photographic documentation, topographical and site plans, surveys, analytical record cards).

DERER, HANNA - occasional collaboration, mainly for the analysis of the present Ph.D. studies, as representative of the University for Architecture and Urban Planning “Ion Mincu”: Ph.D. Studies in Romania – Organising Ph.D. Schools- Segmental Operational Program for the Development of Human Resources 2007-2013, Priority Axis 1, Major Intervention field 1.5, Beneficiary: UEFISCSU

MARIN, VERA - expert in the Methodology for improving the quality and functionality of public spaces in large housing estates, research and development consortium project (studies, methodology and pilot project) funded as service providing by the Ministry of Regional Development – Rose, Anne (Space Syntax, London - project coordinator); Esenghiul, Abdul; Schultz, Christian (authors Space Syntax Bucharest); Tudora, Ioana (author ATU); Răuţă, Emanuel; Pîslaru, Dragoş (GEA - Group of Applied Economics)

The study should mainly result in establishing the methodology of analysis and intervention in the public space of the large housing estates, and also the set of indicators needed for the analysis, for the purpose of improving functionality and quality (accessibility, positive urban image, comfort and safety). On the basis of the analysis methods, which will be set out by taking into account the urban and social, as well as the legal dimension of public space, typologies of possible problems and methods of intervention on the public space of the large housing estates are to be identified. The methodology will also include identified financial instruments and possible funding schemes. The study will have to present the data source, the territorial levels that can make data collections, the institutions standing to benefit from these indicators in the process of constructing urban policies, as well as the responsibilities of the beneficiary institutions.

MARIN, VERA - international research project coordinator in the project call organized by URBAN NET(research program in FP7), DEGRACO - Vectors of degradation processes in the large collective housing estates - specific methods of diagnosis for understanding housing issues, research and development project funded by the Ministry of Education and Research and coordinated by the ATU organization within the call for projects organized by URBAN NET (research program within FP7) - MARIN, VERA (ATU, project director); Runceanu, Claudiu (UAUIM); Chelcea, Liviu (University of Bucharest - Faculty of Sociology). The project is run in partnership with: INSA - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées Lyon - Génie Civil Urbanisme, France / Monique Zimmermann Botta, Jean-Michel Deleuil, Delphine Agier (PACT ARIMA du Rhône), Delft University of Technology, Netherlands / Cor Wagenaar, Joachim Declerck (Berlage Institute); HURA - Housing and Urban Research Association, Bulgaria / Iskra Dandolova (Institute of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Stefan Nikolov, Nikolay Tonev

DEGRA-co Project has a scientific dimension (academic research in social sciences), as well as an applied one. The Diagnostic instruments monitored will integrate the approach of physical framework with the economic and social ones regarding the phenomena of private apartments´ degradation and of the collective housing wards. In the DEGRA-co research consortium, the research teams have found arguments to claim that one factor isn’t enough to explain the difficulties facing the condominiums. Most often, we talk about a complex combination of factors which have cumulate effects. Some condominiums cumulate multiple flaws, while others (although with similar housing characteristics) function without problems. The results of this project will come to support the public decision of identifying priorities of intervention for ameliorating the living conditions in the great ensembles.

STROE, MIRUNA - Study regarding the Historical, Architectural and Urbanistic Value of the Palace Hall development in 5+5 Buildings for the National Cultural Heritage 1950-1977 – stage II ,

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cultural project of the Inforom Cultural Foundation funded from the stamp duty by the Order of Romanian Architects – NEMŢEANU, Ruxandra (coordinator)


BOŞTENARU DAN, MARIA - Marie Curie reintegration grant lasting 3 years. (15th dec 2007-14th dec 2010). Project: "The innovation in the plan of the current floor: Zoning in blocks of flats for the middle class in the first half of the 20th century". Funding from the European Commission. FP7, Grant agreement: MERG-CT-2007-200636. Scientist in charge: Ovidiu Dobronăuţeanu, Foundation ERGOROM ‘99

The study will concentrate on European features of building stock which have not been covered by previous studies, namely the spatio-functional research of the interior organization of the dwelling in the blocks of flats for the middle class. The study proposes a heterogeneous model in which a zone has instead of a unique function a unique vocation. Zoning results as a structural product in the superposition and interpenetration of textures (sub-systems of the life-frame elements able to respond to the functionally requested situation) of morphologic elements, thanks to the co-operation process of human activities. There is a complex zoning with operational and organisational value. As case studies will be considered:

- Milan 1920-1940;- Bucharest 1920-1940;- Athens 1919-1939;- forerunners of and Avant-Garde in Budapest 1896-1939.

BOŞTENARU DAN, MARIA - Project "Multihazard and vulnerability in the seismic context of Bucharest city". Runtime: 18 September 2007-18 September 2010. Grant PN II nr 31-005/2007 (funded by CNMP, The National Management of Programme Management). Principal investigator: conf. Iuliana Armaş, coordinating institution: University of Bucharest. Partners: National Institute for Research and Development on the Physics of the Earth, Academy for Economic Studies, National School for Political and Administrative Studies, Technical University for Civil Engineering, Bucharest

The project aims to identify the states historically connected and expressed in the form of the urban phenomenon in order to ensure a fast analysis instrument and for the spatial visualization of the environmental vulnerabilities in the Bucharest Municipality, from the perspective of the seismic risk as a multihazard generator. The final product will be not only a complete data base at the level of the urban environment parameters, but will also offer a variety of analysis procedures validated statistically and ecologically in order to identify the hazard and vulnerability situations in different scenarios of seismic risk, accessible for the local authorities in an attractive web interface that is easy to use and implement in the practice of the emergency situations management and the sustainable territorial planning.

A.2. - SCIENTIFIC EVENTS ORGANIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT OR BY THE DEPARTMENT MEMBERS

A.2.1. Organization of congresses, seminars, symposia, conference cycles, debates


DERER, HANNA – coordinator for the 15 Ph.D. students of the University for Architecture and Urban Planning “Ion Mincu”, Interdisciplinary Summer Symposium 2009 –Ph.D. Excellency in Humanistic Research: Interdisciplinary Applications and Theories. POSDRU/6/1.5/S/2 (Program director prof.univ.dr. Sorin Alexandrescu). Segmental Operational Program for the Development of Human Resources 2007-2013, Priority Axis 1, Major Intervention field 1.5. Beneficiary: the University „Bucharest“, national partner: the University for Architecture and Urban Planning “Ion Mincu”

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VULTUR, IOANA–ELENA (organizer and participant) – the set of scientific discussions named „ Interdisciplinary Summer Symposium 2009”, UAUIM Board Room, subtitled „From Space to Regional Development”. The sequence is part of the „Space, Image, Text, Territory” Doctoral School (SD-SITT) program.

List of contributors: „From Space to Regional Development”Prof. Dr. Arch. Hanna Derer- About RIV- 2009Section: Architecture’s Recompositionsdrd. arch. Mariana Niţu – Contemporary Funeral Architecture between Sacred and Profane- Public or Private Space?drd. arch. Oana Diaconescu – The Scenography of the Museal Spacedrd. art hist. Cosmin Ungureanu – The Crucible of Representation. Antiquity, Ruins and Grand TourSection: Sidesdrd.arch. Ioana – Elena Vultur – Non-Euclidean Composition in Architecture and Art. History and Emergencedrd.arch. Sebastian Boţic- The Relevance of the Verificationist Criteria from the Philosophy of Science in Architecture and Urbanismdrd.arch. Daniel Armenciu – The Bioclimatic Project in ArchitectureSection: Urban spacedrd.arch. Sebastian Stan – Urban interstitial spaces. Evolutionary scenariodrd.arch. Ioana Ardelean – The Dynamics in the Interstitial Spacedrd.urb. Cristina Constantinescu – The Corroboration of the Urban Space with the Architectural One- Constitutive Limits and PremiseSection: Perception and Communitiesdrd.acrh. Horia Bejan – The Relationship between Urban Sports’ Equipment and Communities from an Architectural Perspectivedrd.arch. Mihnea Simiraş – Individual-Community- Built Environmentdrd.arch. Ştefan Nedelcu - Hyperurban ShapesSection: Regional Developmentdrd.arch. Diana Belci – Urban Densification—Equivocal Paradigm. Theoretical preambledrd.arch. Alexandru Calcatinge – Cultural Scenary as a Source of Creativity and Innovation in the Context of Globalisationdrd.arch. Andrei Mitrea – The Competitive Skills of the Regions


BÂLICI, ŞTEFAN – the Symposium “Architecture. Restoration. Archaeology” – ARA, 10th edition, tagged “Monument and propaganda” (with the Association ARA); at “Vasile Pârvan” Institute of Archaeology of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest; April 23-25, 2009; programme and abstracts of contributions at www.simpara.ro, „simpozion”

BOŞTENARU DAN, MARIA - Splinter meeting “Natural Hazards Impact on Urban Areas and Infrastructure”, EGU, Vienna, Austria, 22nd of April 2009

A2.2. Organization of workshops and summer schools

BÂLICI, ŞTEFAN – Summer school Roşia Montană: survey of architectural heritage, Roşia Montană, August 10-28, 2009 (with the Association ARA and the participation of UAUIM)

MARIN, VERA (co-organizer)- Summer University in Sibiu 2009, 6th edition coordinated by ATU(The Urban Transition Association), in partnership with The Order of Romanian Architects- Sibiu headquarters- Vâlcea- funded from the stamp duty by the Order of Romanian Architects - with the participation of the UAUIM

A2.3. Organization of exhibitions

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NISTOR SERGIU, IAMANDESCU IRINA, PANASIU GABRIEL, CRĂCIUNESCU ADRIAN – The Exhibition „Un Double Regard sur le Patrimoine Roumain”, organized by UAUIM and Ecole de Chaillot/Paris

The Exhibition jointly ellaborated by the French and Romanian architects involved displays the didactic approach and the professional achievements of more than 15 years of collaboration between UAUIM and Ecole de Chaillot/ Paris, materialized in eight international workshops at seven historic monuments in Romania.

B. SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES (INDIVIDUALLY AND / OR TEAM WORK) OF THE DEPARTMENT MEMBERS

B1. - INDIVIDUAL GRANTS AND INTERNSHIPS RESEARCH


BOŢIC, SEBASTIAN; STAN, SEBASTIAN; UNGUREANU, COSMIN; VULTUR, IOANA-ELENA - European PhD scholarship (October 1st, 2008 - 2012) awarded by the Doctoral School entitled Space, Image, Text, Territory (SD-SITT), organized by the Consortium including Bucharest University (UB), represented by the Centre for Excellence in the Study of Image (CESI), and the “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urban Planning (UAUIM) in Bucharest, represented by the School of Research and Advanced Studies (SCSA), together with the Hermeneutical Studies Center (CH) of the Faculty of Philosophy (FF) of the “Al.I. Cuza” University (UAIC), Iaşi. This Consortium has a partnership treaty with the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane (SUM), headquartered in Florence, and especially with the Università di Siena (US), part of the SUM. All these act as IOSUD institutions in Romania and Italy.

The cycle of university doctoral studies is of four years for the UAUIM Phd. candidates and is divided into a three semesters’ program of advanced academic training (PPA) and a five semesters’ research program (PCS).

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The scholarship provides a two semesters’ internship in foreign universities.

CALOTĂ, IRINA, PĂUN (CONSTANTINESCU), ILINCA – European PhD scholarship (1.10.2009 – 30.09.2012) awarded by the Doctoral School entitled Space, Image, Text, Territory (SD-SITT),) within the Operational Sectorial Project for the Development of the Human Resources, POSDRU/88/1.5/S/63319, Priority Axis 1

The cycle of university doctoral studies is of four years for the UAUIM Phd. candidates and is divided into a three semesters’ program of advanced academic training (PPA) and a five semesters’ research program (PCS).

The scholarship provides a two semesters’ internship in foreign universities.

KOVACS, KAZMER - Research Fellowship at the IEA Nantes, for finishing the manuscript of the book on landscape and gardens bearing the provisional title: Landscape with Garden and House, December 2009 – February 2010KOVACS, KAZMER - creative residency at the Romanian Cultural Institute in Paris for the book project entitled Une histoire des jardins, Paris, November 2008

MARIN, VERA - New Europe College (NEC) fellow, for the 2009/2010 academic year, with the research project entitled: Parallel discourses on urban policy and the Romanian urban planners: between EU principles and local contradictions

POPESCU, TOADER - New Europe College (NEC) fellow, for the 2009/2010 academic year, with the research project entitled „UN ALLER SIMPLE POUR LA MODERNITÉ - L’urbanité roumaine sous le signe de la voie ferrée (1859-1918)”

VULTUR, IOANA–ELENA - residency abroad, within the Doctoral School entitled Space, Image, Text, Territory (SD-SITT), (1st of October 2009-31st of May 2010), at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris La Villette, Ecole Doctorale „Pratiques et Théories du Sens ” (ED 31), in the GERPHAU Laboratory, including a "Contemporary philosophies and critiques of culture" Master course

B2. – PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC EVENTS

B2.1. Scientific papers at national and international conferences / seminars

Chair of History and Theory:

DERER, HANNA- Denkmalschutz in Rumänien. Theorie und Praxis der gebauten Umwelt (The Protection of Historic Monuments in Romania. Theory and Praxis of the Built Environment), paper at the symposium „Restaurierung von Baudenkmalen in Siebenbürgen unter dem Aspekt von Umwelt- und Klimaeinflüssen / Restaurarea de clădiri monument din Transilvania sub aspectul influenţelor de mediu şi climatice“ (Conservation of Historic Monuments in Transylvania in the Light of Influences from the Environment and Climate), organised, mainly, by Kulturland, in Mediaş

IOAN, AUGUSTIN – master class review – Dessau Institute of Architecture, May 2009

VIANU, ŞTEFAN - moderator of debates „Pro and Contra“ organized by ICR (the Cultural Romanian Institute)

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VIANU, ŞTEFAN - attending roundtables and conferences regarding the contemporary debates on the role and function of the public space and the social role of art - New Europe College, National Museum of Contemporary Art, National Centre of Dance

VULTUR, IOANA–ELENA - participation with the “Non-Euclidean composition in architecture and art. History and emergence” paper, within the set of scientific discussions named „Summer Interdisciplinary Residential – 2009 edition”, UAUIM Board Room, subtitled „From Space to Regional Development”. The sequence is part of the „Space, Image, Text, Territory” Doctoral School (SD-SITT) program.VULTUR, IOANA–ELENA - participation with the paper entitled „Nelson Goodman / C.Z. Elgin „Re-conceptions en philosophie- le codage du symbole dans l’œuvre d’architecture” (“Nelson Goodman / C.Z.Elgin « Re-conceptions in philosophy – symbol encoding within the art masterpiece » “), within the scientific discussions: Laboratoire GERPHAU. Session Novembre, 27th of November 2009, Ecole Doctorale „Pratiques et Théories du Sens ” (ED 31), Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris La Villette.


BÂLICI, ŞTEFAN - The Symposium “Architecture. Restoration. Archaeology” – ARA, 10th edition, tagged “Monument and propaganda” (with the Association ARA); at “Vasile Pârvan” Institute of Archaeology of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest; April 23-25, 2009; programme and abstracts of contributions at www.simpara.ro, „simpozion”

BOŞTENARU DAN, MARIA - “Teaching through research”, paper at the EGU General Assembly 2009, Vienna, Austria; April, 22 nd 2009

http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2009/EGU2009-3490-3.pdf BOŞTENARU DAN, MARIA: “Vulnerability of housing buildings in Bucharest, Romania”, poster at the EGU General Assembly 2009, Vienna, Austria; April, 21st 2009

http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2009/EGU2009-3686-1.pdf BOŞTENARU DAN, MARIA: “Applicability and economic efficiency of earthquake retrofit measures on existing buildings in Bucharest, Romania”, poster deliverated at the EGU General Assembly 2009, Vienna, Austria; April, 21st 2009

http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2009/EGU2009-3941-3.pdf BOŞTENARU DAN, MARIA: “Historic timber skeleton structures and the local seismic culture”, poster at the EGU General Assembly 2009, Vienna, Austria; April, 21st 2009

http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2009/EGU2009-6961-2.pdf BOŞTENARU DAN, MARIA: “Architectural layout and vulnerability to earthquakes of housing buildings of the Modernism”, paper deliverated at the EGU General Assembly 2009, Vienna, Austria;

April, 21st 2009 http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2009/EGU2009-6961-2.pdf BOŞTENARU DAN, MARIA: “Historic timber structures and the local seismic culture”, paper deliverated at the session of scientific communications “Geographical research and the changes in the environment”, The Institute of Geography of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania, June 2009BOŞTENARU DAN, MARIA: “The architecture landscape in the interwar time and the need for regeneration today – geographical parcour Romania, Italy, Greece and the rest of Europe”. Accepted for publication, “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism. Delivered at the conference “Regenerarea peisajului urban/ arhitectural între repere - priorităţi – limite” („The Regeneration of the urban/architectural landscape between references – priorities – limits”), Bucharest, Romania, June 29-30th 2009BOŞTENARU DAN, MARIA: „The architectural layout and the seismic vulnerability of modernist residential buildings and of the contemporary currents”, UTCB, CNRRS (ed.): The Fourth National Conference of Seismic Engineering, Bucharest, December 18th,

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PANASIU, ION GABRIEL – „Emptied memory, manipulated memory”, paper delivered at the Symposium “Architecture. Restoration. Archaeology” – ARA, 10th edition (with the Association ARA), “Vasile Pârvan” Institute of Archaeology of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest; April 23-25, 2009

B.2.2. Participation in international meetings, conferences, roundtables, workshops, summer schools


BĂNCESCU, IRINA - EUropean ROma Mapping (EU-ROMA) - Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), Culture 2007 Programme (2007-2013); study / improvement of the living conditions of the Roma communities, partnership with foreign cultural organisations (LAN - Italy, TAMA - Greece, LCF – United Kingdom, Vladimir Macura - Serbia); workshops held in Volos (Building Together, 04.2009) and London (Roma Gypsy Survival Strategies, 06.2009).

http://www.eu-roma.net/dblog/

BRĂTULEANU, ANCA – „Interwar Romania: A City and Two Forgotten Promoters of Modern Urban Planning”, University of Edinburgh, Architecture - Research Seminars, lecture, Edinburgh, February 2009BRĂTULEANU, ANCA – „Conservation and the City”, lecture at Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies, Edinburgh College of Art, MASTERCLASSES 2009, February 2009

DERER, HANNA - „Stein gewordene Kultur. Erforschung und Erhaltung des architektonischen Erbes der Deutschen im östlichen Europa” („Frozen Culture. Research and Preservation of the Architectural Heritage of the Germans in Eastern Europe”), round table organised by Deutsches Kulturforum östliches Europa within the series of events accompanying the Dehio Price 2009 – representative of Romania and author of the survey of the village Şercaia / Schirkanyen between 1996 and 2009DERER, HANNA - workshop for the cultural heritage in the town Sibiu, organised within the process of conceiving the master plan

KOVACS, KAZMER - Title of the contribution: „Actuality of the Vernacular”, Historia X – Exhibition and workshop, Dala foundation, Bucharest, April 23 rd – May 7th 2009 KOVACS, KAZMER – intervention at the roundtable „15 Years of Restoration Workshops Ro/Fr” within the Romanian- French colloquium Focussed View on the Romanian Heritage (Regards croisees sur le patrimoine roumain), organized by UAUIM in partnership with Ecole de Chaillot, France

ZAHARIADE, ANA MARIA – Moderator at the roundtable ”The Historic City, an Active City: New Urban Architectures and Innovations”, following the Conference THE REHABILITATION OF THE HISTORIC CENTRES IN SPAIN: THE INCIDENCE OF THE ACTIVE CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURES organized by Cervantes Centre and New Europe College, Bucharest – March 2009ZAHARIADE, ANA MARIA – Scientific coordinator and moderator at the international roundtable URBAN EXPANSION AND LANSCAPE (organized by the Embassy of Germany and UAUIM) within The Days of the German Culture in Bucharest – IAUIM, November, 2009ZAHARIADE, ANA MARIA – The conference UNE VILLE EN QUETE DE CENTRE and participation in the workshop belonging to the module FORME URBAINE / 5th academic year 5, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette, within the individual programme SocratesZAHARIADE, ANA MARIA - Moderator at the session “arhitectuRO” within the student scientific actions ZA (Architecture Days) Cluj – May, 13-16 th 2009

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BÂLICI, ŞTEFAN – Summer School Roşia Montană: Survey of the Architectural Heritage, Roşia Montană, August 10-28, 2009 (with the Association ARA and the participation of UAUIM)

BOŞTENARU DAN, MARIA- Training Summer School Netherlands, 3D Geo-information for Disaster Management, October, 5-9th, 2009, Delft | Amsterdam | Arnhem. Organiser: Dr. Sisi Zlatanova, TU Delft, OTB Research Institute for Housing, Urban and Mobility Studies

http://www.semcity.eu/school.htmlBOŞTENARU DAN, MARIA - Workshop of the COST action TU0801, Workshop and Working Group and Management Committee Meeting in Liege, Belgium, “A global view on semantic enrichment of 3D urban models”

IAMANDESCU, IRINA – „Le patrimoine urbain face au développement économique” (Urban Heritage Versus Economical Development ), Seminar “Malraux” « Heritage and economic development », Romanian-French Seminar organized by the Ministry of Culture, Cults and National Heritage, March 2009

NISTOR, SERGIU - Conference ICOMOS Europa, Vienna, June 2009 – representative of Romania as chairman of Romanian National Commitee ICOMOS NISTOR, SERGIU - International Symposium of Rehabilitation of the Built Heritage Tuşnad/Remetea – moderator of a section of the conference, he elaborated the proposal for the resolution « The statement of Remetea » as chairman of Romanian National Commitee ICOMOS

NISTOR SERGIU, IAMANDESCU, IRINA, PANASIU GABRIEL, OPREANU MIHAI, CRĂCIUNESCU ADRIAN – organization and coordination of the students in the Art Restoring Workshop Ro/Fr – Sulina , assistant coordinator of the workshop organized by UAUIM in partnership with Ecole de Chaillot, France

Step I, October, 18 – 25th 2008, SulinaStep II, March 29th – Aprilie 6th 2009, ParisThe results of the workshop were disclosed by means of the exhibition „ Double Overview on the Romanian Heritage”

organized in Bucharest at UAUIM „Ion MIncu” (September 2009) and then at the Romanian Popular Costume Museum – section of the National Museum of the Village „Dimitrie Gusti” (Novenber 2009 – January 2010)

B.2.3. Participation in exhibitions Chair of History and Theory:

BĂNCESCU, IRINA - exhibition “EU-ROMA Dwelling” at RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects), London, 06.2009, within EUropean ROma Mapping (EU-ROMA) - Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), Culture 2007 Programme (2007-2013); study / improvement of the living conditions of the Roma communities, partnership with foreign cultural organisations (LAN - Italy, TAMA - Greece, LCF – United Kingdom, Vladimir Macura - Serbia)

http://www.architecture.com/WhatsOn/Exhibitions/At66PortlandPlace/2009/Summer/EU-ROMA.aspx http://www.eu-roma.net/dblog/BĂNCESCU, IRINA – ATU (Association of Urban Transition) - Roma Preview Pavilion at MNAC (National Museum of Contemporary Art), 10.2008-03.2009; BĂNCESCU, IRINA – ATU - Roma Preview Pavilion at MTR (Museum of Romanian Peasant), “Shukar”, Marina Obradovic, 10.2008-03.2009;

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BĂNCESCU, IRINA – ATU - Roma Preview Pavilion “Street Delivery”, 06.2009.

Roma Preview Pavilion Project was presented within Venice Architecture Biennial 2008, Out There Architecture Beyond Building, Venice 2008.

BRĂTULEANU, ANCA – Coordinator of the exhibitions regarding the nobiliary residences in Transilvania, within „Street Delivery” (OAR), Arthur Verona Street, at Capitol Cinema, Bucharest and EtnoBrashov, June 2009.

KOVACS, KAZMER - exhibition „Actuality of the Vernacular”, Historia X – Exhibition and workshop, Dala Foundation, Bucharest, April 23rd –May 7th 2009, , Contemporary Art Instalation and Heritage Exhibition


BÂLICI, ŞTEFAN –“Densuş – In memoriam Suzana Móré Heitel”, Symposium ARA, “Vasile Pârvan” Institute of Archaeology of the Romanian Academy, April-June 2009

IAMANDESCU IRINA – „INDUSTRIAL / old time snapshots”, photo exhibition concerning the historic industrial monuments from Romania, along with Camil Iamandescu, Cărtureşti Book Shop Julye 2009

NISTOR, SERGIU, BÂLICI ŞTEFAN, CRĂCIUNESCU ADRIAN, DRĂGAN, VALERIU, IAMANDESCU IRINA, KOVACS, KÁZMÉR , MORTU, PETRU, PANASIU ION GABRIEL - „60 Churches of Wood”, exhibition at Museum of Romanian Peasant (September 2009) , UAUIM „Ion Mincu” (septembrie 2009) , National Museum of the Village „Dimitrie Gusti” (Octomber – December 2009), Dala Foundation, Bucharest and OAR (July 2009)

B.3. - RESEARCH PAPERS AND COMMISSIONED ARCHITECTURAL SURVEYS

B.3.1. Research papers

BRĂTULEANU, ANCA - Studies Concerning Historic Monuments and Intervention/Restoration Concept:*Building in 3, Stavropoleos Street, Report. Intervention Concept. Addenda to the Evaluation Study for the building and to the proposed interventions, author*Saint Nicholas Church in Pietrari. Historical Study and Architectural Evaluation, drawn up considering the moving operations of the church to the Village Museum in Bujoreni, Vâlcea, 2009, author

BRĂTULEANU, ANCA, CRITICOS MIHAELA - Preliminary evaluation studies of several historical mouments buildings in view of deciding the posibilities of intervention/restoration* Historical and Evaluation Study for the Building in 30 Franceză Street,*Historical and Evaluation Study for the Buildings in 23-25 Anton Pann Street,* Historical and Evaluation Study for the Building in 30 Lascăr Catargiu Boulevard, *Historical and Evaluation Study for the Building in 2 Sofia Street,* Historical and Evaluation Study for the Building in 8 Belgrad Street.

CRĂCIUNESCU, ADRIAN – Historical and architectural study in order to restore the roof of the central seat of BCR, 5, Elisabeta Boulevard, BucharestCRĂCIUNESCU, ADRIAN – Historical and architectural study for substantiation of the classification of the buildings in 16 and 18 Dorobanţilor Avenue and for the substantiation of the urban Zonal Plan (PUZ) in

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CRITICOS, MIHAELA– “Study regarding the Historical, Architectural and Urbanistic Value of the Băneasa International Airport, Bucharest”, historical and evaluation study for the classing as historic monument, drawn up as part of the cultural project of the Inforom Cultural Foundation 5+5 Buildings for the National Cultural Heritage 1950-1977 – stage II (coordinator arch. Ruxandra Nemţeanu) , funded from the stamp duty by the Order of Romanian Architects (published, cf. C5)

DERER, HANNA - Identification of the Cultural Resource in the Light of Essential Aspects of the Historic Evolution. Substantiation Study for Future Interventions -The Buildings in Calea Victoriei nr 174 and Dacia Bulevard nr 1, BucharestDERER, HANNA - Identification of the Cultural Resource in the Light of Essential Aspects of the Historical Evolution. Substantiation Study for the Contest Theme Meant to Preserve the “Gabroveni Inn”, the Buildings in Lipscani Street Numbers 84-86, 88, 90DERER, HANNA - Pilot Study for the Implementation of the Methodology for Conceiving Urban Planning Documentations for Built Protected Areas: the Historic Centre of the Town Craiova –consultingDERER, HANNA - Delimitation Study of the Protection Areas of Historic Monuments and Sites in the Town Craiova - consulting

DRĂGAN, VALERIU - „Historical study for the buildings in 16, 16A and 18 G-ral. Christian Tell Street / analysis of the cultural values / general rules of intervention for preservation and integration in the said area of the identified cultural values”

DRĂGAN, VALERIU - „Historical study for the building in 4, G-ral. Ernest Broşteanu Street / analysis of the cultural values / general rules of intervention for preservation and integration in the said area of the identified and established cultural values”DRĂGAN, VALERIU „Historical study for the building in 46, L. Tolstoi Street / analysis of the cultural values / general rules of intervention for preservation and integration in the said area of the identified and established cultural values”

NISTOR, SERGIU – Historical study for delimitating the protected objectives in the municipal town of Giurgiu by applying a method consisting in a morphological and historical study aiming the precise delimitation and regulation of the protected urban areas in order to draw up a particular Urban Zonal Plan (PUZ), delimitation of the protection area of the isolated historic monuments, indicating the special objectives (monuments, archaelogic sites, other valuble areas)

PONTA, RADU – Urban Analysis of an Urban Zonal Plan (P.U.Z.) proposed for PMB authorization – in the group of sc Republic of Architects srl - area ‘Verona, Xenopol, Ieremia Grigorescu, Tache Ionescu’ within TUB 2009, update of the cadastral surveys for the said area (especially for the public property) and a careful measurement of the temporary elements from the urban environment (pillars, poles, bins, street stands, booths, fences a.o.)

STROE, MIRUNA - A historical study regarding „Belvedere, Panoramic, Olimp” hotels in Olimp, aiming to include the ensemble on the architectural monuments’ list. The research is part of the project „5+5 buildings for the national cultural heritage 1950-1977”, financed by UAR through the cultural foundation Inforom

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B3.2. Surveys and field research

BÂLICI, ŞTEFAN – Measurements of the Furriers’ Tower, Sighişoara Fortress (Mureş County), Visitor reception room, Bran Castle (Braşov County), Robescu House, The National University of Arts, 19 Gen. Budişteanu St. (Bucharest)

KOVACS, KAZMER- Measurement of the Sekler National Museum in Sf. Gheorghe, Measurement of the house Bene in Sf.Gheorghe

B.4. DOCTORAL THESES

B.4.1. Completed Doctoral Theses

MARIN, VERA - Housing policies and urban planning: improving the quality of housing in major ensembles in Bucharest, doctoral thesis tutored by Prof. Dr. Arch. Alexandru Sandu

The target of the doctoral thesis research consists in the collective housing ensembles built 1950-1989, based on an urban project which is a project of urban systematisation proposing the arrangement of the space and the location of the buildings out of the urban network appeared in the course of time.

The research theme is focussed on the analysis of the degree of adequation between the changes undergone by this park of residencies (changes of the physical framework, but also changes of their management after the privatisation of the apartments which belonged to the public property before „90 years) and the need of intervention in order to ameliorate the housing in these urban areas and the due measures proposed by the public central and local authorities after 1990 concerning this park of blocks of flats, respectively.

The studied area is in Bucharest, the way of selection of the analysed cases didn’t aim a special cut-out in a particular great ensemble (it wasn’t selected a precisely delimited area); on the contrary it involved exemplifying different cases from the point of view of the building and the association of owners, for which there were taken into consideration the elements of context too. Thus, a very large range of situations resulted, of which it was possible to operate a classification (typology) according to the criteria of evaluation of the quality of housing and of the potential of undergoing different categories of interventions.

B.4.2. Doctoral thesis in progress

BĂNCESCU, IRINA (non – attending doctoral candidate in architectural theory), Contemporary Tendencies in Waterfront Regeneration. Rehabilitation of the Romanian coast; coordinator Prof. Dr. Arch. Ana Maria Zahariade

The theme puts into discussion multicriterial modalities of definition and investigation of an area extremely sensible and conflictual from all points of view – the limit between land and water (the waterfront). The research is concentrating on the individualisation and analysis of the typological characteristics of the present processes of rehabilitation / reconfiguration of the coastal zones on an international level, distinguishing especially European case studies. The central element of the study is the dynamic relation between city or territory and water, through the multidisciplinary methods of analysis of this interaction at local and territorial level, focusing on urbanised areas (a special case is the historic and, recently, touristic port city).

The construction of this updated and complex frame of study is meant to determine typologies of situations and approaches, subsequently applied for a better understanding and placement in the global context of the case of the Romanian coast, starting from its historic evolution to the present transformations and empahsizing the intense and distinctive development during the communist period.

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BÂLICI, ŞTEFAN -“Basilicas of Dobrudja - 4th – 6th centuries. The architecture of liturgical space reflected by the town: A critical analysis of the understanding of the archaeological monument, with a selection of case studies.” The National University of Arts, scientific coordinator Prof. Dr. Corina Popa

BOŞTENARU DAN, MARIA (attending doctoral candidate in architectural theory) - Influences and differences from Italian architecture in the use of building materials in late interwar architecture of Bucharest and their preservation today, doctoral thesis tutored by Prof. Dr. Arch. Cristina Olga Gociman

The research focuses on the role of architecture and urbanism in earthquake risk management, work not done until now, through a historical/memory view on architecture/urbanism and earthquakes (keeping historic substance through retrofit and the testimonies of catastrophes: ruins/rebuilding) and an elaboration of urban zoning, emergency housing and a cultural framework for interventions on vulnerable Modernist architecture in central Bucharest, Romania.

BOŢIC, SEBASTIAN (doctoral candidate in architectural theory) - Human Settlement as a form of knowledge? The relevance of the verificationist criteria from the philosophy of science in architecture and urbanism, doctoral thesis tutored by Prof. Dr. Arch. Augustin Ioan

The proposed research thesis develops a theory of knowledge and of its development. The starting point is the human settlement, seen both as amazement that occasions epistemological introspection, and as a theoretical, as well as practical instrument of increasing knowledge. The Greek word επιστήμη or episteme designates knowledge or science, and one of the notorious definitions of knowledge comes from Plato. The Socratic dialogue The Republic is one of the most influential works of philosophy and political theory of the Platonician tradition, due to the founding exposition of the concept of knowledge, and particularly to the edification of ‘The Ideal City’. Speaking about the knowledge that the ‘philosopher kings’ then, and overly specialized today’s architects, possess, Plato opens up an extremely interesting chapter for the history and theory of architecture. Few questions, however, arise for researchers: (a) what is the difference, if any, that occurs in modern times between knowledge and science; (b) how can one obtain knowledge and what is scientific progress; (c) who should manage the space of dwelling (the political or the specialized factor); (d) is it correct to formulate this way the previous question or do we lose something essential; and, finally, (e) which are the fundamental questions for science, or (f) can a criterion be envisioned for definitely establishing the ‘scientificity’ of a discipline?

These are just a bundle of the vital questions meant to define a profession, which can be found from ancient to post-modern thought. Obviously, the project of the thesis does not pretend to answer all these questions judiciously; also, the way they coagulated historically is not identical, and the variety of their formulation gave full measure of interdisciplinary transformation. But, in order to understand this disciplinary consubstantiation and to approach an approximation of the previous questions, a methodology is needed.

The suggested approach relies on Arthur Lovejoy's method, notwithstanding the fact that it has recently been challenged by Quentin Skinner, and will continuously follow the ‘unit-idea’ of legitimate oppression with the multiple permutations occured during its evolution. The ‘unit-idea’ of legitimate oppression states that everything accomplished by the person who regards herself or himself as the repository of knowledge is legitimate. Starting with antiquity, passing through various utopias from the eve of the industrial revolution and reaching present-day (post)moderns, the history of this particular idea will try to prove the fertility of its use in architectural theory.

The study of its evolution implies the most influential directions in the philosophy of science, without attempting any interpretation of their plausibility. The demonstration revolves around the assumption that the manner in which science defines itself and its own mechanism of evolution offers a safer, albeit possibly narrower, instrument for shaping a theory of habitation. If we are to understand ideology as a set of ideas that have the twofold character of naming something and of showing ways to approach that same thing, then understanding science, which, in turn, dictates the ideal organization of things, proves to be of the uttermost importance. Therefore, a substantial part of the work will include an analysis of the ideologies of habitation and their relation with the studied principle.

In the end, the concept of legitimate oppression will be discussed from a political perspective. Following Richard Rorty, who, some time ago, entitled a chapter in one of his works “The primacy of democracy over philosophy”, one might consider that a point of view of the average individual (the one that has but‘opinion’ - as opposed to Plaro’s knowledge) is highly salutary. As a result of studying the practices of scientific demarcation, it will be shown that one sole political system is compatible with the principle of self-containment, which Andrei Cornea named the auto-inclusion test, and that is democracy.

CALOTĂ, IRINA (attending doctoral candidate in architectural history)- The dwelling within the social programs in România until 1948, doctoral thesis tutored by Prof. Dr. Arch. Anca Brătuleanu

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IAMANDESCU, IRINA (non-attending doctoral candidate in architectural history) - Industrial archaeology / recovery of the industrial Patrimony / the Case of Romania, doctoral thesis tutored by Prof. Dr. Arch. Anca Brătuleanu

MORTU, PETRU (non-attending doctoral candidate in architectural history) - Bucharest trade from the Organic Regulations until Nationalization, doctoral thesis tutored by Prof. Dr. Arch. Anca Brătuleanu

PĂUN (CONSTANTINESCU), ILINCA (attending doctoral candidate in architectural theory), The Shrinking Cities Matter, doctoral thesis tutored by Prof. Dr. Arch. Ana Maria Zahariade

POPESCU, TOADER (non-attending doctoral candidate in architectural theory)- Urban modernisation in outer-Carpathian Romania (1859 – 1918) – influences of the railway development, doctoral thesis tutored by Prof. dr. arch. Ana Maria Zahariade

The doctoral research studies the development of the railway infrastructure in outer-Carpathian Romania between 1859 and 1918 and its strong impact on thinking patterns, urban behaviour, day-to-day life and cultural perspectives on the city and the territory. This work can offer a more complex and intricate understanding of the phenomenon of urban modernisation, an extremely dense and active process in Romania at the end of the 19 th century.

PONTA, RADU (non-attending doctoral candidate in architectural theory) – Le Corbusier – themes and shapes of the architectural theory in 20th century, doctoral thesis tutored by Prof. dr. arch. Ana Maria Zahariade (proposed to be completed in February 2010)

STAN, SEBASTIAN (attending doctoral candidate in architectural theory) – Urban interstitial spaces, doctoral thesis tutored by Prof. Dr. Arch. Nicolae Lascu

The urban interstice is a type of space, usually small or narrow compared to the context, found in between things or parts of things. Interstices exist at various scales and in many contexts, but they are usually perceived as residual spaces, lost or forgotten. The urban fragments of this type are bordered by the limits of the established spaces, from which they are excluded, and not seen as coherent and self-sustainable urban spaces.

From a public perspective, interstices usually pass unnoticed, yet when they are perceived publicly, they get a negative connotation and are seen as residual spaces. Many interstices are in the blurry area that separates semi-public from semi-private, which opens them to carelessness and abuses, but the immediate proximity of public or private spaces makes them attractive in an evolutive urban perspective.

The research topic starts from the postmodern and contextualist background of ideas, from the general notion of interstice and from the urban interstice defined by its structures and history. The research approach intends to speculate the capacity of conceptual and scientific (re)investigation of the fundamental boundaries of European urban spaces (and, by extension, of Romanian urban spaces).

This approach aims to inventory the evolutive mechanisms and to explore the symbolic and theoretical foundations of the urban interstitial spaces, for the purpose of determining, crystallizing and synthetizing the theoretical premises that characterize the evolutive patterns of the urban interstices, maximizing their evolutive potential and preceding subsequent urban regulations.

STROE, MIRUNA (non-attending doctoral candidate in architectural theory) - Compared aspects of housing architecture in the ex-communist countries, doctoral thesis tutored by Prof. Dr. Arch. Ana Maria Zahariade

TULBURE, IRINA (non-attending doctoral candidate in architectural history) - The architecture of the Stalinist period, doctoral thesis tutored by Prof. Dr. Arch. Ana Maria Zahariade

UNGUREANU, COSMIN (attending doctoral candidate in architectural theory) – Architecture and representation in the Age of Enlightenment, doctoral thesis tutored by Prof. Dr. Arch. Ana Maria Zahariade

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The aim of the PhD thesis is an interdisciplinary approach: the connection between architectural history and theory and the issue of art (history). The subject is to be placed inside the cultural, intellectual and political context of the 18 th century, while taking into consideration problems of taste, habits or conventions. The research will refer mainly to the Italian and French space, but also to the British and German one, to a certain extent.

The investigation is centered on the topic of representation (in a broad sense): from word (text, treatise) to architectural project (materialized or not) and image (painting, drawing, engravings). In other words, there will be an analysis of the various levels of embodiment of a common, more or less conventional image about architecture. In large measure, the research will be concerned with the ideal architecture, a concept to be traced for the most part in the field of theory (treatise) and visual rendering (veduta, capriccio), but also of architecture itself (Palladianism for instance). Other important issues are the stylistic dialogue between late Baroque (Rococo) Neo-classicism, and also the theoretical debate regarding ancient landmarks (the Latin or Greek heritage), the very nature of architecture or its rationality (the relation between form and matter, the status of ornament, etc.).

The choice of the 18th century, with a more applied attention on its second half, is justified by the cultural and intellectual effervescence. This age of crossroads, set between two epochs, is deeply rooted into the metabolism of the “resurrection” of antique architecture, in the way defined by Alberti, Palladio, Inigo Jones, etc., while illuminating certain aspects of modern architecture.

The three sections of the research project are both subsequent and interrelated. The first one, which also is the fundament of the thesis, envisages the texts (architectural treatises, philosophical essays, as well as literary writings such as voyage recordings), attempting to trace the ideological context of the time. As such, by analyzing texts on architecture, one might discover to what extent they are still indebted to the Vitruvian tradition or, on the contrary, postulate innovative ideas, for instance about the right use of the orders, about architectural abuses (Carlo Lodoli),etc. On the other hand, the development of archaeology, the aesthetical ideas (Lessing, Kant) and the initiation of ancient historiography (Winckelman) also represent a substantial research material. Subsequently, the outline of mentalities and ideology of the 18 th century is to be completed by travel books or writings inside the “Grand Tour” phenomenon (Goethe among others). All this bibliographical material might be structured by the general tendency of the 18th century towards reason, truth, method, or the idea of utility. In the architectural treatises, for example, the effect of all these issues might be the purity of form, the logic of function, the lack of decoration, etc. The extreme point of this debate is, of course, the utopia (C.N. Ledoux).

The second section of the study is dedicated to architecture itself, as incarnation (or not) of the ideal program. A fundamental aspect to be followed is the relation between the edifice proper and theory, and particularly the coordination between them.

The third part involves art (mainly painting) history - as an interpretative instrument for the phenomenon of ideal architecture. At the same time, an appropriate placement of this art species into the artistic context is required both in theory and practice. The inclusion of this section into the thesis is justified by the autonomous character of the phenomenon, on the one hand, and by its perfectly synchronized existence, on the other hand. In other words, the visual representation of architecture has its own rules, which do not necessarily interfere with the theoretical preoccupations in the field of architecture. Visual representation is to be associated with related processes and phenomena, such as the ‘Grand Tour’, the re-formulation of the relation with Antiquity, the national being and so on, while, at the same time, is connected to traceable architecture (surveys - Piranesi, Vasi, etc.).

VULTUR, IOANA-ELENA (attending doctoral candidate in architectural theory) – „Form and code in architecture”, doctoral thesis tutored by Prof. dr. arh. Ana Maria Zahariade and co-tutored by Prof. dr. Chris Younes.

The research was conceived as a critical study based on an interdisciplinary research (history of art, contemporary architectural theories, design methods, aesthetics), continuing the dissertation paper (completed in July 2008) and inspired by Umberto Eco’s „History of Beauty”: an analysis of the ciclicity of the non-euclidian phenomenon in architecture.

From theory to practice, this study of digital architure wishes in its first part to identify „the roots” of the cultural movement, formal typologies, an ethetic code, compositional relations and analogy problems, consistency and data, so as to be able to tackle design and execution methods (From File to Factory).

A “flock” of terms orbits in the language of the art of code since the 1980s–1990s. At the intersection between generative art, programming, nature and philosophy, the study of complex behaviours, of dynamic and open self-organizing systems is born: bee algorithm, boids (Craig Reynolds, 1987), collective intelligence, differential evolution, emergence, swarm robotics, flocking behaviour, harmony search.

The theories of “bio-philosophy” also found applicability in urban planning and architecture, strongly analyzed in the writings of Manuel DeLanda - A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (New York, 1997) - and Steven Johnson - Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software (London, 2000).

Following the coordinates signed Deleuze and Guattari, Manuel DeLanda wrote a history of the urban space, understood as a self-adjusting “phylum machinic” that becomes a deterritorialisation area.The concepts of striated (rhyzomed) space and flat (even) space, so vital to a new understanding of urbanism, are translated into architecture.

Could it be chronologically cyclic, this predilection for non-euclidian geometries in art and architecture? Alternating the rectangular formula with the “hiperbolical”, non-euclidian one, could demonstrate what Jose Ortega Y Gasset stated in his work The Dehumanization of Art?

The computerized design methods are also called “post-Gaudian practice”. Any language, in order to be used properly, needs a grammar, through which the manner of using the given vocabulary is established.

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In order to escape such platitude, the process needs to be integrated in the concept of structure. The intelligent material determines the concept of a structure through finding the optimum link between “fix” and “fluid”. The orthogonal grid – in its evolution since the Renaissance “was used to emphasize the expansive potential of the repeated module or individual axis-line in continuous or near continuous extension” (Jack H.Williamson, “The Grid: History, Use, and Meaning”, Design issues, vol. 3, no. 2, 1986, pp. 15-30). Later, during the Enlightenment, the grid “comes to represent not only the structural laws and principles behind physical appearance, but the process of rational thinking itself” (Idem). The grid not only carries the “drama of the cross”, but also the continuum of space and time.

B.5 - RELATED ACTIVITIES

B.5.1. Projects of restoration / rehabilitation, insertion and conversion

BÂLICI, ŞTEFAN - Restoration and interior layout – Furriers’ Tower, Sighişoara Fortress (Mureş County)BÂLICI, ŞTEFAN - Restoration and interior layout – Visitor reception room, Bran Castle (Braşov County)BÂLICI, ŞTEFAN - Restoration – Robescu House, The National University of Arts, 19 Gen. Budişteanu St. (Bucharest) – feasibility studyBÂLICI, ŞTEFAN - Restoration and interior layout – Unitarian Parish House, Roşia Montană (Alba County)

KOVACS, KAZMER - Restoration of the Sekler national museum in Sfîntu Gheorghe, with Attila Zakariás and Gabriella OlaszKOVACS, KAZMER - Rehabilitation of the Székely Mikó college in Sfîntu Gheorghe, with Attila ZakariásKOVACS, KAZMER - Integrated urban development plan for Sfintu Gheorghe, together with Irina Popescu-Criveanu and Attila Zakariás

B.5.2. Research-Based Architectural and Urban Designs

DRĂGAN, VALERIU – head project for the investment: „Consolidation and restoration works - Evangelical Fortified Church of Drăuşeni”, cooperation with the company s.c. S.C. „Rescon Moldoveanu" S.R.L. Bacău, Beneficiary: O.N.M.I.. User: Superior Consistoriy of the Evangelical Church C.A, Romania.DRĂGAN, VALERIU - member of the research team for the audit report in the architecture field of study, concerning the sketches of designs for the buildings of the law courts from Oradea, Cluj and Turda and for the audit report in the architecture field of study concerning the feasibility study for the Palace of Justice from Iaşi, within Obermayer proiectare Bucureşti s.r.l.

IOAN, AUGUSTIN – Episcopalian Cathedral with Royal Necropolis, Curtea de Argeş, 2008-2010

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IOAN, AUGUSTIN, NISTOR, SERGIU, PANASIU, ION GABRIEL – participant group at the competition for the restoration, extension and functional remodelling of „Hanul Gabroveni” (the Gabroveni Inn) from de historic centre of the municipality of Bucharest

MARIN, VERA – coordinator for the study “Instrument to monitor, prognosticate and evaluate the urban development – Urban Observatories - OU”, beneficiary: the Ministry of Regional Development and Housing, team: Marin, Vera (coordonator), co-authors: Pascariu, Gabriel, Josefina Lopez Galdeano, Pietro Elisei, Simona Pascariu, Liviu Chelcea, Valeria Valeri, Marta Sassella, Gloria Zaglioni,MARIN, VERA – co-autor for Methodological Guide for Integrated Urban Project, beneficiary: the Ministry of Regional Development and Housing, team: Pascariu, Gabriel (coordonator), co-authors: Josefina Lopez Galdeano, Pietro Elisei, Simona Pascariu, Liviu Chelcea, Valeria Valeri, Marta Sassella, Gloria Zaglioni, Vera Marin

NISTOR, SERGIU - PUG (Masterplan) Giurgiu, beneficiary: Local Council Giurgiu; Urban analysis of delimitation of the protection and protected areas from the point of view of the architectural and urbanistic heritage POPESCU, TOADER – member of the research team: „Preliminary audit regarding urban legislation with a view to codification”, beneficiary: the Ministry of Regional Development and HousingPOPESCU, TOADER – Studies and projects in the field of urban planning and historical urbanism (within S.C. Quattro Design S.R.L., coordinator. Arch. Şerban Popescu-Criveanu).

PONTA, RADU – Urban Analysis of an Urban Zonal Plan (P.U.Z.) proposed for PMB authorization – in the group of sc Republic of Architects srl - area ‘Verona, Xenopol, Ieremia Grigorescu, Tache Ionescu’ within TUB 2009, within the team of SC Republic of Architects SRL

STROE, MIRUNA - A historical study regarding „Belvedere, Panoramic, Olimp” hotels in Olimp, aiming to include the ensemble on the architectural monuments’ list. The research is part of the project „5+5 buildings for the national cultural heritage 1950-1977”, financed by UAR through the cultural foundation Inforom www.inforom-cultural.org – step II (coordinator arh. Ruxandra Nemţeanu)

B.5.3. Archive Inventory

BRĂTULEANU, ANCA – coordinator - inventory, research and classification, as well as magnetic recording of the glass slides from the collection colecţia Tzigara-Samurcaş, 2008-2010. Group: asist. arh. drd. POPESCU Toader and PONTA Radu, drd. arh. CALOTĂ Irina and TEODOR Alexandra, stud. arh. POP Diana, as well as the researchers BOŞTENARU DAN, Maria and BUZILĂ, CiprianBRĂTULEANU, ANCA - coordinator of the group of students from the academic years III-IV that make the inventory of the nobiliary residences in Transilvania found on The List of Historic Monuments from Romania; operation in progress.

VULTUR, IOANA-ELENA - Photographically inventorizing a part of the geometrical models of Poincaré Institute and their integration in archives, Paris, 2009.

B.5.4. Pictures, picture screen plays and Radio-TV broadcasts on specific topics

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CRĂCIUNESCU, ADRIAN; CRITICOS, MIHAELA – participation in the TVR1 series Restaurare (Restoration), created after a BBC format – final episode, „Bucureşti”.

DERER, HANNA - several TV interviews (TVR1, TVR Cultural a. o.) as personal counsellor of the Minister for Culture, Cults and National Heritage

C. PUBLICATIONS

C.1. – AUTHORED BOOKS

C.1.1. Home

BRĂTULEANU, ANCA – Coordinator - The Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcaş Archive, „Ion Mincu” University Press, 2009.Texts: LASCU Nicolae, POPESCU Toader, CALOTĂ IrinaDigital archive: BOŞTENARU-DAN Maria, BUZILĂ Ciprian, CALOTĂ Irina, POP Diana, TEODOR Alexandra; consulting: BELDIMAN Ioana Graphic concept album: PONTA Radu TudorGraphic concept CD: TEODOR AlexandraProofreading: BLYTH Alistair JanPublishing: DINU Elena

CRITICOS, MIHAELA – Art Deco sau modernismul bine temperat / Art Deco or Well-Tempered Modernism, Editura Simetria, Bucureşti, 2009, ISBN 978-973-1872-03-2, 275 pages

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The book proposes a new reading of the Art Deco phenomenon, seen as a temperate avatar of modernism, and a systematic investigation of its architectural manifestations (which still lack a complete monograph), along with the inclusion of relevant marginal contributions, particularly from Romania.

From this perspective, Art Deco appears as the “weak”, cordial and accessible alternative to progressive modernism and, simultaneously, as interface between the elitist and exclusive culture of interwar modernism and the taste of the general public, marked by the values of tradition, of consumer culture and of mass culture.

For those involved in finding future solutions in shaping the built environment (designers, architects, urban planners), the “lesson” of the deco phenomenon stands, besides the ludic and communicative dimension assimilated by the post-modern ethos, in attempting to restore to humanity the joy of living, the only utopia we discover in the Art Deco world.

DERER, HANNA - The Black Book. The Destruction of the Architectural and Urbanistic Heritage in Romania. Bucharest 1990-2009, ISBN 978-973-570-349-3, 119 pages, images

The volume, meant to be the first from a series that should be edited by the Architects Chamber in Romania, offers a typology of unfortunate interventions the built cultural heritage of Bucharest has suffered in the last 20 years.

IOAN, AUGUSTIN - Modern Architecture and the Totalitarian Project, ICR (Romanian Cultural Institute) Press , 2009IOAN, AUGUSTIN - Urbanology – Crash Courses on a Science in Crisis, collective volume, MNAC, Bucharest, 2009IOAN, AUGUSTIN - Double Treatise on Urbanology, with Ciprian Mihali, IDEA Press, Cluj/Bucureşti, 2009 For many years now, one or the other (or both of us together), we believed that either there is nothing more to be said on the space of our post-Communist cities, or that there is nothing meaningful to be said about it. We shared the illusion that, at least after the change in local and national administrations (2004), the expert or at least concerned voice of public actors might be heared upstairs, at least when it comes to long term projects and urban policies. The the abrupt dellusion: public space is at its most a space of consumption for its daily users, and it is not a space between negociations (and rejections), a space of dialogue It is now the testing ground of cohorts of "experts", the material support for endless advertising campaigns and of ephemeral "monuments" to the free market, and the electoral propaganda material of imaginative administrations, Yet, the public space does not cease to be a battleground for all of us. It is neither the work of art of some, nor the edifice of a majority (regardless of its legitimacy). The public space is the result, albeit provisory and never completed, of everyone participating, especially of those who do not take mart in decision making , of those without authority, without titles, but who are all parti in the narrative of public space (re)production, use and reading.Ciprian Mihali - http://ciprianmihali.blogspot.com/2009/11/in-curind-in-librarii-augustin-ioan-si.html

TEODORESCU, MAGDA - Writing for Architects to Be, „Ion Mincu” University Press

ZAHARIADE, ANA MARIA - Symptoms of Transition(1), author, Arhitext publishing house, 2009, bilingual edition, 267 pagesZAHARIADE, ANA MARIA – Coordinator (along with Anca Oroveanu) of ACUM3 and ACUM. Bucharest’s landmarks- to come out and of the reissuing of ACUM 1 and ACUM 2 second edition

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C.2. - CONTRIBUTIONS IN VOLUMES COORDINATED BY MEMBERS OF THE DEPARTMENT

ZAHARIADE, ANA MARIA (coordinator and editor, along with Anca Oroveanu, UNA) - ACUM 3. Public space and social reintegration of the artistic and architectural project (A + B), final volumes

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achieved through the CNCSIS-Consortium project Art, Urban Communities, Mobilization, ISBN 978-973-7999-96-2 (in course of finalization at the “Ion Mincu” University Press, Bucharest)

In the volume ACUM 3A (theme: Theoretical landmarks):

Băncescu, Irina - The right to the Danube. Public or private river bank?- Roma Preview Pavilion- New European urbanity. Water as public space generator

Crăciunescu, Adrian - Eforie Nord – for sociologists, from the architectural point of viewGhyka, Celia - Site-specific or notes about place Kovacs, Kazmer - Beauty free shop

- Sub-urbanism. From agora to fair-ground - How did gardens turn into greenery?

- Landscape with garden and house

Panasiu, Gabriel - Emptied/forgotten/exiled memory Păun, Ilinca - Shrinking Cities. Diploma application. Reinventing the Virtual City

Ponta, Radu Tudor - Inner street is another kind of streetPopescu, Toader - About utility and interest. Norms and rules of public spaceStroe, Miruna - Participative architecture or architecture entering political space

- Graffiti and discernment on the value of architecture Tulbure, Irina - Nova Huta. Setting of a moment Ungureanu, Cosmin - Incursiuni în spaţiul publicVianu, Stefan - Public space now and the role of public art

In the volume ACUM 3B (theme: Bucharest’s Public Space):

Buzilă, Ciprian - Houses with “geamlâc” (glazed veranda) in BucharestBăncescu, Irina - Architecture competitions: UNACalotă, Irina - Among the “read” space of Bucharest’s streetsCrăciunescu, Adrian - Why is the Capital’s historic center a second-hand public space today?Marin, Vera - “Testimony”: a virtual public space for BucharestMortu, Petru - Dâmboviţa. Conviviality spaces in the XIX centuryPăun, Ilinca - Timid manifesto: Competition for the rehabilitation of Tineretului resortPăun, Ilinca, Vladimir Vinea - Objects and marks in the public space

- Barriers in the public space. Typological outlinesPonta, Radu Tudor - About the use of the sidewalk: negociationPonta, Radu Tudor - Victoria Socialismului – arrangement and extension Popescu, Toader - Public space in vertical section: DâmboviţaPopescu, Toader - About prints and traces: the North Station in BucharestStroe, Miruna - The Sala Palatului ensemble or concise guide to ideological expressionTulbure, Irina - A lime-tree is blossoming at my window Zahariade, Ana Maria - Bucharest a big village? On the modern perception of the traditional city

- The enigma of Little Paris - Facades

C.3. - CONTRIBUTIONS IN VOLUMES WITH EDITORS / COORDINATORS FROM OUTSIDE THE DEPARTMENT

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BOŞTENARU DAN, MARIA - „The architectural layout and the seismic vulnerabilità of modernist residential buildings and of the contemporary currents”, UTCB, CNRRS (ed.): The fourth National Conference of Seismic Engineering, Bucharest, 18th of December 2009, Conspress, Bucureşti, 2009, ISBN: 978-973-100-096-1, Vol. I: 978-973-100-097-8, p. 57-66BOŞTENARU DAN, MARIA - along with cu Iuliana Armaş, Silvia Dumitraşcu: „Multicriteria analysis of the urban vulnerabilità to seismic risk, with accent on the architectural fabric: Bucharest municipality” , UTCB, CNRRS (ed.): The fourth National Conference of Seismic Engineering, Bucharest, 18th of December 2009], Conspress, Bucureşti, 2009, ISBN: 978-973-100-096-1, Vol. I: 978-973-100-097-8, p. 21-30.

BUZILĂ, CIPRIAN - “Alexandru Săvulescu House/ Lascăr Catargiu. An example of conversion” in Buletinul Comisiei Monumentelor Istorice, year XX, nr. 1-2, 2009, pp. 19-27.

DERER, HANNA - The Built Cultural Heritage Between Historic Identities and the Contemporary One. On Law, Urban Planning and Creativity as Instruments to Preserve or to Destroy, in Bianca Selejan-Guţan and Daiana Maura Vemaş (ed.), Europe Between the Freedom of Culture and the Culture of Freedoms. Collected courses of the International Summer University (Sibiu, 8-17 July 2007) „Lucian Blaga” University Press Sibiu, 2008 [released in 2009], pp. 240-258

Using some obvious examples of ways in which the cultural resource expresses itself at the urban or the object scale, the text – conceived rather for other professions than that of the architect – highlights his/hers juridical and urbanistic limits, but also the fact that the preservation of cultural heritage challenges him/her to be really creative. Scheduled for 2008, the volume was published only in 2008.

IOAN, AUGUSTIN - Retrofuturism, in O filozofie a intervalului – In Honorem Andrei Pleşu, volume coordinated by: Mihail Neamţu and Bogdan Tătaru-Cazaban, Zeta Books Publishing House, Bucharest 2009

KOVACS, KAZMER - „The Nature of the Gardens or the Melancholy of the Pitoresque” , in O filozofie a intervalului – In Honorem Andrei Pleşu, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2009,Mihail Neamţu and Bogdan Tătaru-Cazaban coordinators

Departing from Andrei Pleşu’s book on the European sense of nature in modernity, the paper puts forward to consider gardens as the artistic means of giving sense to nature. Gardens are also seen as a major kind of improvement for a place to be inhabited. Since the Renaissance, with the advent of the landscape, farawayness has been progressively integrated to the composition of gardens. Thus, boundaries tend to become invisible, and the aesthetic and conceptual coordinates of the garden are blurred. Therefore, the invention of the English garden is understood as the sign of a fundamental change in our ideas of the built environment.

MARIN, VERA – co-author Magic Blocks – Scenarios for the socialist blocks, along with Kai Vockler Ştefan Ghenciulescu, Constantin Goagea Justin Baroncea, Esenghiul Abdul, Christian Beros Marko Sancanin, Zeppelin Publishing House, ISBN 978-973-006942-6

VIANU, ŞTEFAN – „În the Crystal Palace of today’s World”, Annals of the Bucharest University, Philosophy series

In one of his latest books, Im Weltinnenraum des Kapitals (Within the interior -mundane space of the capital), the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk proposes a philosophical analysis of the phenomenon of globalisation. The term has become so banal that it took the boldness and philosophical culture of the author of the monumental trilogy Spheres to approach this subject that has lost its meaning before its time from a new angle. „Globalisation“should not be understood starting from the socio-political analysis of today only, but from an historical perspective: its origin lies in the year of 1492, with the beginning of the discovery of the globe. Once this process is over, history itself comes to an end. The space that was perceived as limitless a few centuries ago, its conquering fueled the course of history itself. But conquered space is deleted space - it is replaced by the networks’ system. It remains to be seen whether the saving of space by regaining the ”place” notion is still possible.

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VIANU, ŞTEFAN – Les sources de la seconde modernite europeenne, Romanian Philosophy Journal, 2009

For Hobbes, thinker of modernity as much as Descartes, nothing opposes to the will of the sovereign state, and the modernity is the development of the process of its unlimited domination. However, this phenomenon is not the last word of modernity. If the main feature of modernity is that of the abstract universality, there is also a feature of the concrete universality which proposes the deepening of the human existence historicity, starting from its European culture roots - and of the modern world itself.

ZAHARIADE, ANA MARIA Presenting the research project CNCSIS- ACUM consortium 2006-2008, in „Povesti de succes” (Success Stories), edited by CNCSIS in 2009

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BOŞTENARU DAN, MARIA- co-author along with Richard Přikryl, Ákos Török , Materials, Technologies and Practice in Historic Heritage Structures, Publisher: Springer Netherlands, ISBN 978-90-481-2683-5 , 385 pages

BRĂTULEANU, ANCA – „Del prencipe della Valacchia maggiore”. Politica, cultura e architettura al confine fra Oriente e Occidente alla fine del XVI secolo, vol. "Romania culturale oggi", a cura di Nicoleta Neşu, premessa di Luisa Valmarin, publication of the University „La Sapienza”, Bagatto Libri, Roma, 2008.

C.4. - ARTICLES IN SPECIALIZED MAGAZINES AND CULTURAL PERIODICALS

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BUZILĂ, CIPRIAN - “Alexandru Săvulescu House/ Lascăr Catargiu. An example of conversion” in The Comission of Historic Monuments’s Bulletin, year XX, nr. 1-2, 2009, pp. 19-27.

DERER, HANNA – book review: Paul Niedermaier. Städte, Dörfer, Baudenkmäler. Studien zur Siedlungs- und Baugeschichte Siebenbürgens (Towns, Villages and Historic Monuments. Studies on the History of Settlements and Architecture in Transylvania), Köln, Weimar, Wien, 2008, both in German and Romanian, in Forschungen zur Volks- und Landeskunde, vol. 52/2009, Editura Academiei Române, 2009, pp. 189-190, ISSN 0015-7902 as well as in Historia Urbana, Tomul XVII, 2009, Editura Academiei Române, 2009, pp. 339-340, ISSN 1221-650X

The review highlights both the connections Paul Niedermaier has been following during his long research activity in the given field, as well as the new information, now published for the first time.

DERER, HANNA – article: On the Education of the Present and Future „Conservation Architect” The „Ion Mincu” – Bucharest Version, inTransylvania Nostra, 4 / 2009, pp. 8-10, ISSN 1842-5631

The text offers an analysis of the present types of specific education for future architects, as well as for architects interested in the field of built cultural heritage, now pursued by the „Ion Mincu” University for Architecture and Urban Planning and ends by resuming ways to adapt and to improve these.

KOVACS, KAZMER - „Cum se face de a ajuns grădina spațiu verde” (How come the garden became green space), in Secolul 21 nr. 7-12/2009, Bucharest

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The phrase „greenery” has acquired an extended usage at teh expense of „garden”, which has become entirely marginalized. The paper discussesthe relation of contemporary urbanity with the natural element by reaching back to the founding document in the field, the Athens Charter. By analysing the position of the latter towards planted areas in the modernist town the prelininaries, as well as the continuation of the modernist ideas are explained and put into the context of theory and practice of today.

VIANU, ŞTEFAN - articles in „Idei in dialog” monthly magazine

VULTUR, IOANA-ELENA – Articles (between 1 – 3 / edition) in each ARHITECTURA issue, during the whole period of October – May, respectively the 77 – 80 issues, where there are presented architecture offices, especially East-European ones, but also from other continents, who’s projects are distinguished through innovation, concept, execution and functionality.

www.arhitectura1906.ro.

ZAHARIADE, ANA MARIA - „The silent patience of the necessary” in Dilema Veche newspaper, May 2009

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BOŞTENARU DAN, MARIA - “The innovation in the plan of the current floor: Zoning in blocks of flats for the middle class in the first half of the 20th century”, STREMAH 2009, iunie 22-24, Tallinn, Estonia. Published in: “Structural Studies, Repairs and Maintenance of Heritage Architecture XI” Editor: C.A. Brebbia. ISBN: 978-1-84564-196-2. Southampton, 2009 (WIT Press), Transactions of the Built Environment, Vol. 109 (ISSN 1743-3509)

http://library.witpress.com/pages/listPapers.asp?q_bid=469, abstract available at: http://library.witpress.com/pages/PaperInfo.asp?PaperID=20498 (ISI Proceedings)

BOŞTENARU DAN, MARIA – co-author along with Heidi Kreibich: “Natural Hazards’ Impact on Urban Areas and Infrastructure”, Natural Hazards 51 (3) 2009, p. 403-542, Special issue (Print ISSN: 0921-030X, Online ISSN: 1573-0840)

http://www.springerlink.com/content/102967/ ISI) impact factor 2008 0.989BOŞTENARU DAN, MARIA - Reviewer’s activity for the ISI magazines: International Journal of Architectural Heritage (two articles), Building and Environment (one article), Risk Analysis (two articles)

BRĂTULEANU, ANCA - The first Masonry Church of the Orthodox Community in Lviv, Series Byzantina, Neriton Publishing House, Varszawa, 2008

BUZILĂ, CIPRIAN - “EAAE/Lafarge International Competition for Students ]PRESENT[ - Architecture's Challenge” with Simina Stan in EAAE News Sheet Bulletin, feb. 2009, pp. 12-15

CRĂCIUNESCU, ADRIAN - Criteria for the Conservation of Built Heritage /annual ICOMOS-ICLAFI meeting, Helsinki 2008, Edita, Helsinki, 2009

DERER, HANNA - interview offered to Sabine Schneider, Bukarest – schlafende Schönheit (Bucharest, the Sleeping Beauty), in Baumeister, Mai 2009, pp. 72-75, ISSN 0005-674X

KOVACS, KAZMER - „To be or not to be in the landscape”, in Landscape and rural heritage –European spatial planning and landscape, No. 88, Council of Europe Publishing, Belgium, 2009

The lack of distance – or distancing – kills the chances of an aesthetic experience in front of a landscape. If we consider that landscape has no objective existence, but is a way of seeing, bodily entering the natural milieu brings the disappearance of the landscape the same milieu might provide if only contemplated from a sufficient – and safe – distance. That is, from a position where the other senses are not involved in the perception.

The topic of faraway-ness as substance of the landscape as aesthetic object is a basic one. And faraway-ness as distancing is a condition for the emergence of the landscape. And it is in this posture that the faraway-ness can and must be read in multiple keys.

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http://library.witpress.com/pages/PaperInfo.asp?PaperID=20498

http://library.witpress.com/pages/listPapers.asp?q_bid=469


PONTA, RADU - introduction to writings by Ciprian Buzila and Simina Stan “Challenges, Conditions and Case Studies of Architectural Research in the Digital World”, report at AEEA / ARCC Conference – “Changes of paradigms in the Basic Understanding of Architectural Research”, published in AEEA News Sheet 80/2008

The introduction describes the international competition’s evolution context and comments on the assessment of all participating projects.

C.5. - PUBLICATIONS ON ELECTRONIC SUPPORT

CRITICOS, MIHAELA –“Aeroportul Internaţional Băneasa, Bucureşti” (“The International Airport Băneasa, Bucharest” - study developed in the framework of the project of the Cultural Foundation Inforom 5+5 clădiri pentru patrimoniul cultural naţional 1950-1977 (5+5 buildings for the national cultural heritage 1950-1977 - coordinator architect Ruxandra Nemţeanu) – published at www.inforom-cultural.org and on free CD-ROM

VIANU, ŞTEFAN – publication tf the lecture notes: www.me.com/vianu

Publications in 2009 of 2008 papers:

BOŞTENARU DAN, MARIA - “Modern Italian architecture of interwar time - approaches to the memory of the space”. Published in Proceedings of the 16th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Scientific Symposium “Finding the Spirit of the Place”, Quebec, Canada, 29 september – 4 october 2008

http://www.international.icomos.org/quebec2008/cd/papers_all_az.html BOŞTENARU DAN, MARIA - “The rediscovered space, a space of encounter” Published in Proceedings of the 16th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Scientific Symposium “Finding the Spirit of the Place”, Quebec, Canada, 29 september – 4 october 2008

http://www.international.icomos.org/quebec2008/cd/papers_all_az.html

C.6. - TRANSLATIONS

BOŞTENARU DAN, MARIA- UAUIM publication, entitled Urban Regeneration. Translation of the articles:- „Romanian cities: an epoch-making change not properly managed”, Giuseppe Cinà (12 pages)

-„ Europeization of Romanian Urban Policies: the hard pathway towards integrated urban plans”, Pietro Elisei (20 pages)

- „Housing regeneration and heritage conservation policies”, Giuseppe Cinà (8 pages) (with consulting the original in italian)

KOVACS, KAZMER - „Europa urbană?”, article by Françoise Choay, original title: “L’Europe urbaine?” (“Urban Europe?”), in Urbanismul - new series, 2008, Bucharest

TEODORESCU, MAGDA - Old Men in Love, Alasdair Gray, Polirom March, 2010TEODORESCU, MAGDA - Monthly translations for Arhitectura Magazine

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TEODORESCU, MAGDA - Magic Blocks, Zeppelin Association, - translations

C.7. EDITING AND GRAPHICS FOR PUBLICATIONS

BÂLICI, ŞTEFAN – Dinu Antonescu, Columna lui Traian. Arhitectura de pe friza sculptată –(Trajan’s Column. The architecture on the sculpted frieze), ARA Publishing House, 2009

D. CONSULTANCY AND PARTICIPATION IN PROFESSIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC FORUMS

D.1 – ACTIVITIES OF APPROVING, INSPECTING, CONSULTING, DRAWING UP NORMATIVE ACTS

BRĂTULEANU, ANCA – chairman of the technical commission (architectuure and engineering), vicepresident of the National Commission of Historic Monuments

DERER, HANNA - personal counsellor of the Minister for Culture, Cults and National Heritage

NISTOR, SERGIU – member of the National Committee of Historic Monuments, president of the Zonal

Committee 11 of CNM Braşov, Covasna, Harghita

D.2. – SPECIALIZED JURIES

ZAHARIADE; ANA MARIA – Member of the Rome Summer School project jury - the Urban Centrality international workshop organized by Paolo Colarossi from the Dipartimento di Architettura e Urbanistica per L’Ingegneria della Sapienza Universita di Roma, september 2009 ZAHARIADE; ANA MARIA - the Order of Romanian Architects, president of the Evaluation Commission of Cultural Projects funded from the stamp duty, may 2009ZAHARIADE; ANA MARIA - Cultural projects’ evaluator, Romanian Cultural Institute, 2009ZAHARIADE; ANA MARIA - Independent expert in European Prize for Urban Public Space 2008-9 in ROMANIAZAHARIADE; ANA MARIA - Research projects evaluator for Swiss National Science Foundation, 2009

DERER, HANNA - evaluation of candidates from the field of architecture for DAAD (German Office for Academic Exchange) scholarshipsDERER, HANNA - evaluation of Ph.D. candidates – 2009 series of the Architecture Faculty of the Politechnical University in Milan, field: „Cultural Goods”

BÂLICI, ŞTEFAN – member of the jury in Solutions competition for the Aeronautics Memorial, Bucharest, Aviatorilor (Aviators’) Boulevard; organized by OAR

D.3. – POSITIONS, AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS IN SCIENTIFIC FORA, COMMISSIONS AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL)

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BRĂTULEANU, ANCA - director of the Department of History & Theory of Architecture and Heritage Conservation in the “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urban Planning (since 2008) BRĂTULEANU, ANCA - member of the National Committee of Romania for UNESCO (since 2008) BRĂTULEANU, ANCA - vice-chairman of the National Commission of Historic Monuments, head of the Technical Commission - Architecture and Engineering (since 2006) BRĂTULEANU, ANCA - member of the Scientific Council of the National Institute of Historic Monuments (since 2006)

CRITICOS, MIHAELA - Head of the Chair of History and Theory within the Department of History & Theory of Architecture and Heritage Conservation in the “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urban Planning (since 2008)

DERER, HANNA - president of the department „Recording” of the National Commission for Historic MonumentsDERER, HANNA - vice-president of the National Commission for Historic MonumentsDERER, HANNA - member of the Union of Architects in RomaniaDERER, HANNA - founding member of the Chamber of Architects in RomaniaDERER, HANNA - member of the Board for the Faculty for Urban Planning of the University of Architecture and Urban Planning „Ion Mincu”DERER, HANNA - head of the Department for Advanced Studies of the University of Architecture and Urban Planning „Ion Mincu”DERER, HANNA - member of the operative board of the University of Architecture and Urban Planning „Ion Mincu”

GHYKA, CELIA – founder member of the OAR (Order of Romanian Architects)GHYKA, CELIA – vice-chairman ATU – (Association for Urban Transition)

IOAN, AUGUSTIN - member of the Leading Board of the OAR - Order of Architects in Romania

KOVACS, KAZMER - Member in the Editorial Board of the magazine Urbanismul – serie nouă

LASCU, NICOLAE – chairman of the Section of Urban Planning and Protected Areas of the National of Historic MonumentsLASCU, NICOLAE - vice-chairman of the National Commission of Historic Monuments LASCU, NICOLAE - chairman of the Permanent Experts Committee no. 8 (Arts, Architecture, Urbanism, Physical Education and Sports) of ARACIS

MARIN, VERA - member of the Advisory Board for the journal Urban Research and Practice (themes centered on urban policies), published by Routledge in partnership with EURA - European Urban Research Association and Uwe Bristol - University of the West of England MARIN, VERA –UAR (Union of Romanian Architects) member and in Board member for the UAR Urban Observatory program MARIN, VERA – president of the ATU association – (Association for Urban Transition)MARIN, VERA – founder member of the OAR (Order of Romanian Architects)

POPESCU, TOADER –member in ATU (Association for Urban Transition) leading board

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ZAHARIADE, ANA MARIA - member of the Pilot Committee of the International Union of Architects for the project for In line indexing of the architectural heritage of the 20th century - UIA project, the Ministry of Culture in France and DocoMoMo International ZAHARIADE, ANA MARIA - member for four years of the Romanian Cultural Institute’s leading board/administration council. (presidential decree- June 2009)ZAHARIADE, ANA MARIA - member of the National Committee of phD. Granting and Universitary confirmation of MEC- subject architectureZAHARIADE, ANA MARIA – member of Ad ASTRA reflection group concerning the human research Excellency ZAHARIADE, ANA MARIA - Invited in conception and organization group of SCALES 1960-2010ARCHITECTURES > CITIES > LANDSCAPES > EUROPE , Budapest workshop, october 2009


BÂLICI, ŞTEFAN - vice-president of the Architecture. Restoration. Archaeology (ARA) AssociationBÂLICI, ŞTEFAN - member of ICOMOS Romania BOŞTENARU DAN, MARIA – member of the Marie Curie Fellowship Association BOŞTENARU DAN, MARIA – member of the Karlsruhe alumni KaTH BOŞTENARU DAN, MARIA – member of the European Geosciences Union

CRĂCIUNESCU, ADRIAN - founding member of AIR - Association for Industrial Archaeology – Romania; secretary of the organization CRĂCIUNESCU, ADRIAN - member of ICOMOS Romania; auditor CRĂCIUNESCU, ADRIAN - member of the Scientific Committee for Legal, Administrative and Financial Issues(ICLAFI) of ICOMOS International CRĂCIUNESCU, ADRIAN - member of the Zonal Commission of Historic Monuments no. 12, Bucharest, Ilfov, Giurgiu

IAMANDESCU, IRINA - member of the Presidential Commission for the built heritage, historic and natural sites in Romania IAMANDESCU, IRINA - national correspondent TICCIH - The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage ( since1999); board member (since 2006) IAMANDESCU, IRINA - member of ICOMOS Romania (since 2004) IAMANDESCU, IRINA - secretary of the Romanian National Committee (since 2006) IAMANDESCU, IRINA - member of AIR - Association for Industrial Archaeology – Romania; founding president ( since 2007) NISTOR, SERGIU - member of ICLAFI / ICOMOS; president of ICOMOS Romania NISTOR, SERGIU - General Secretary for the National Commission of Romania for UNESCO

PANASIU, GABRIEL - member of ICOM - International Council of Museums PANASIU, GABRIEL - founding member of AIR - Association for Industrial Archaeology - Romania PANASIU, GABRIEL - founding member of OAR - Order of Romanian Architects

E. ELABORĂRI CURRICULARE

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E.1. – CURRICULA

IOAN, AUGUSTIN – architectural design and teaching curricula for the European Doctoral School Project (since 2007)

MARIN, VERA - Master of Integrated Urban Development, UAUIM

The activity involves reviewing the curricula so that the modules would result more compact, the stage of practice would be prepared by courses with a very applied character (project management) and the diploma would be framed in a coherent approach with applications for accessing structural funds for urban regeneration - axis 1 ROP - Regional Operational Plan - sustainable urban development.

E2. – LECTURE NOTES, READERS, SELECTED WRITINGS, ANTHOLOGIES INTENDED FOR THE DIDACTIC ACTIVITY

BOŞTENARU DAN MARIA - “Risks” Course, along with prof. dr. arch. Cristina Olga Gociman, for the Master’s Course (Bologna) “Urban Design”

CRITICOS, MIHAELA - updating of the lecture notes for the course of architectural theory Architectural Language (1st year)

www.iaim.ro/catedre/istorie_teorie_resturare/note

IOAN, AUGUSTIN –Doctoral School SITT (Space Image Text Territory) – two courses, European Doctoral School ONLINE (two personal courses accepted and activated)

www.e-ARCHIDOCT.eu

PONTA, RADU – participation in editing the lecture notes for Introduction to Contemporary Architecture (author prof.dr.arch. Ana Maria Zahariade), to come out at „Ion Mincu" University Press

ZAHARIADE, ANA MARIA - updating, editing and posting on the Internet the lecture notes for courses of architectural theory: Introduction to Contemporary Architecture (1st year), Architecture–Dwelling-Town (2nd year), Architecture-Context-Landscape (3rd year)

www.iaim.ro/catedre/istorie_teorie_resturare/note

F. AWARDS, NOMINATIONS AND DISTINCTIONS

BĂNCESCU, IRINA – along with ADN architecture office – mention for the international competition CIBAF (La Città dei bambini di Frattamaggiore), Frattamaggiore, Italia – 12.2009

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http://www.e-ARCHIDOCT.eu/

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DERER, HANNA - the „Bologna Professor” medal – offered by the National Alliance of the Students Organisations in Romania medalia „Profesor Bologna” – acordată de către Alianţa Naţională a Organizaţiilor Studenţeşti din România

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