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Text: Mugur Grosu

What can be more comforting when you get lost than the landmark on the map telling you where you are: you are here. Maybe a simple sign that indicates a destination. No wonder that in 2014 MoMA acquired for its permanent collection a representation of the red tear-shaped symbol that the Danish designer Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen had created for Google Maps.

Organisers: Goethe-Institut, Zeppelin, Stardust Architects

Intro: Brîndușa Tudor, Anca Cioarec, Ștefan Ghenciulescu

On the occasion of the Bauhaus centennial, Goethe Institutes all around the world have organized special programs; they have brought exhibitions, movies, lecturers etc., but they have also organized their own events, pretty much everywhere, in cooperation with local organizations:

ElectroPutere AIR (artists in-residence) is a program of the Centre for Art Club ElectroPutere developed within the framework of the creative, production and research centre, located in the city of Craiova in southwestern region of Romania.

A special edition Zeppelin: #30. Arhitecture in România, 1989-2019.

An album of 248 pages, 8 chapters, almost 100 projects.

16. Edito: PUZZ_LIT. Poetry and resuscitation. On the street
Text: Mugur Grosu

18. DOSSIER: EU Mies Awards 2019
20. Intro
Text: Ştefan Ghenciulescu

For over 12 years, I have nominated, as an independent expert, works for the EU Mies Award, as to use its shortened name. In 2019, I had the privilege to be part of this edition’s jury. Together with my colleagues, we shortlisted 40 projects of the 383 submitted, then 5 finalist projects, then the award. Andwe visited all the 5 works selected in the final, as well as the one receiving the award for emergent architecture.

One week, 6 countries, 13 cities (because not all of them could be directly reached).
On-site discussions with architects, customers and, in some cases, users.
Architecture in all its states, and from many, many perspectives. […]

30. Beacon, Boundary Marker, Cocoon,and Bricolage
Cultural Center and Auditorium, Plasencia, Spain

ProJect: Selgascano
Photo: Laurian Ghiniţoiu

48. E26 (School Cafeteria)
Montbrun‑Bocage, France

Project & photo: BAST

56. A Beautiful and Responsible Project
The Transformation of 350 Dwellings, the Grand Parc Neighbourhood, Bordeaux, France

Project: Lacaton & Vassal architectes; Frédéric Druot Architecture; Christophe Hutin Architecture
Photo-reportage: Laurian Ghiniţoiu

The project consists in the transformation of 3 modernist social housing buildings from the 60s , while keeping the tenants inside during the process. […]

72. The Lamp Post in the Middle of the House
PC CARITAS, Melle, Belgium

Project: De Vylder Vinck Taillieu
Photo: Laurian Ghiniţoiu, Filip Dujardin, De Vylder Vinck Taillieu, BAVO, PC Caritas

90. A Radical Hill
Lobe Block, Berlin, Germany

Project: Brandlhuber + Emde, Burlon, Muck Petzet Architekten
Photo: Laurian Ghiniţoiu

104. Skanderbeg Square
Tirana, Albania

ProJect: Anri Sala, Plant en Houtgoed, iRI
Photo: Laurian Ghiniţoiu

122.. ZOOM

126. Nădăşan House, Cluj
Project: Miklós Péterffy
Text: Ştefan Ghenciulescu
PhFoto: Balázs Danyi

142. C_LAD
The Last House but One Down the Street

Project: Justin Baroncea, Dragoş Dragnea
Text: Justin Baroncea
Photo: Radu Malaşincu, Andrei Mărgulescu

154. Added Value
Refurbishment of an Apartament in the Ertler Building, Oradea
Project & text: Alexandru Szűz Pop
Photo: Kinga Tomos

Refurbishing a dwelling is a sort of a constant architects’ job: most times, this is how you start your career but, and this is also valid for very famous architects, these interior design projects continue to show up long after your starting years.

Almost the same as the individual home, an apartment refurbishment allows for explorations and experiments, which can influence larger-scale projects. More important, however, is the added value of such a project: what can you do/influence/generate, besides answering the topic itself ?

One of the things that the Romanian Design Week 2019 jurors appreciated so much in Alexandru Szüz Pop’s project was the approach of a wonderful example of Transylvanian Sezession. The project is inspired from the architectural principles of the building’s project, and symbolically reconstructs the lost original compartmentalization, overlaid on the new spatial limits. Besides, it also provides an example of good practice, through the respectful retake on the original joinery. All of it without the smallest trace of pastiche or stylistic reinterpretation. […]

162. The Joy of Micro‑Architecture
stardust architects

Text: Anca Cioarec & Brînduşa Tudor
Photo: Teodora Ungureanu, Vlad Albu, stardust architects

180. Sex by Anne Imhof
A Show Where Architecture Plays a Key Role
Text: Cosmina Goagea

185. Fictional projects & real problems

Archiprix International 2019/ Hunter Douglas Awards
Text: Cosmina Goagea

194-224. PLANS

Refurbishing a dwelling is a sort of a constant architects’ job: most times, this is how you start your career but, and this is also valid for very famous architects, these interior design projects continue to show up long after your starting years.

Text: Elena Stancu
Photo: Cosmin Bumbuț

Five years ago, we were renting a cramped one-bedroom in Piața Rosetti, Bucharest. We lived in a cold, dark twenty-five square meter room with high ceilings, in a formerly nationalized building.

Proiect: Starh
Text: Ştefan Ghenciulescu
Foto: Radu Malașincu

A little context. Good practices, openness and modest heritage

Reporter: Ștefan Ghenciulescu
Photo: Arjan Bronkhorst, Fred Erns, Ștefan Ghenciulescu, Georgiana Ghenciulescu

The title above is not a journalistic metaphor, but is in fact the name of Amsterdam’s oldest museum (after the Rijksmuseum), established in the 19^th century in a very special 17^th-century house: the home of a rich bourgeois in Amsterdam’s golden age, which has a church as its culminating and hidden point. This is not a domestic chapel, but a public church, complete with an altar, pulpit, organ, upstairs gallery, vaults, statues, benches and seating for about 150 people, and so on: a unique example of a public space and sacred place, knowingly integrated into a civil dwelling.

Project, photo: Mircea Vasvari
Text: Cosmin O. Gălățianu

My colleague, Vasvari

I met Mircea Vasvari ten years ago, as we were both getting ready for admission to the university. I was coming, as many others were, as provincials (some absurdly coming from hundreds of km away), every Saturday and Sunday, to Bucharest, and we were attending five hours of drawing and descriptive geometry