Edito: Bauhaus, 1931-33/2026

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu
Photo: Laurian Ghințoiu

DOSSIER: The Other Architects #2

On the Fluid Boundaries of the Profession

Coordinators: Cătălina Frâncu, Ştefan Ghenciulescu

There was a time when architecture was not taught in schools. It was a sort of craft on the boundary between manufacturing and intellectuality that came to define what we consider cities to be today. Centuries of institutionalisation followed; today the profession is protected, but the boundaries are not nearly as firm as they might seem. A leap beyond the strict category of architects who make or talk about architecture and design allows us to talk even better about the profession and about what it (still) means today.

In 2018 (Zeppelin #150) we published a dossier with the same name. We could not resist and are looking once again at what remains of an architectural education when the architect’s main activity is something else, but also at what architecture looks like in the hands of those who have not studied it formally. (…)

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Agatha Grigorescu‑Bacovia – Spleen in the Şerban Vodă Suburb

Cosima Opârtan (von Bülove) – Space as an Acoustic Language

Tudor Ganea – Designing in the Imagination

Oana Simionescu – Building Conditions and Contexts

Alexandra‑Maria Rigler – Building Culture Under Pressure

Atelier VAST – The New Craftship

Ştefan Ghenciulescu – Informal Romania

Harquitectes – Strada din clădire

querkraft – The Good Neighbour

Bogdan Ciocodeică – Architecture, Design & Curation

Manopera Architecture – Preservation & Taming

JB Arhitectura – A Civilized Landmark

alt.corp. – Amzei, Griviţei & Doamnei

Zeppelin Design – Laboratorul lui Zubía

Technology Pioneers

Confluence architecture & B.I. ingénierie – Art Footbridges

Edito: Paving
Text & Photo: Cătălina Frâncu

DOSSIER: Stone
coordinators: Cătălina Frâncu, Ștefan Ghenciulescu

DOSSIER: My Own House

Single-family homes

Abruptarhitectura

Prefab Homes

Starh: =25 years later

Contemporary homesteads

Barcelona, Karlsruhe: Together and alone

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Care

Resident’s Guide

Zeppelin magazine # 175: Venice Biennale

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Robots, craftsmen, entourage

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Níall McLaughlin Architects

Constanța Casino

Countryside Houses

Restored modernism

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu
Foto: Laurian Ghințoiu

Not everybody knows, but the Bauhaus ensemble in Dessau, comprising the famous main building and the professors’ quarters is not just a museum, but the headquarters of an international academy that teaches post-university courses on design and research.

Text, photo: Cătălina Frâncu

Beneath our feet lie all sorts of textures, all sorts of materials: some harder or easier to maintain, some more expensive or cheaper, some simpler or more refined.

The BIG SEE Festival returns on May 21-22, 2026, to Portorož, Slovenia, as the leading architecture and product design platform in South-East Europe, bringing together architects, designers, brands, and decision-makers from across the world.

Two women started their architectural practice in the early 1920s: Henriette Delavrancea-Gibory, in 1925, in Bucharest, and Eileen Gray, in 1926, in France, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin.

The „Casino Constanța Exhibition Center” project, designed by our coleagues from Zeppelin Design, was awarded at IF DESIGN AWARD 2026 – Interior Architecture / Installation, on which occasion we are publishing online the article in which we presented it in Zeppelin magazine #176.

Níall McLaughlin received the Royal Gold Medal this year, following the unanimous vote of the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) jury. It does not surprise us. With over 30 years of practice, McLaughlin not only designs by closely following his principles, but also teaches successive generations of students a different way of doing architecture.