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Text: Mihai Duţescu
Photo: Andrei Mărgulescu

I am 36 years old and I was born in Alexandria, Teleorman County. Alexandria is a town with a population of about 50,000, located south of Bucharest; that’s an hour’s drive on an ordinary day, when pigs are not slaughtered in the countryside or it’s not the Day of the Dead, in spring or autumn.

5-10 March 2017, Bucharest

Both Dâmbovița and Colentina went through radical transformations throughout their history, yet their presence is hardly felt in the city. Dâmbovița changed, after a two-phased transformation, from a meandering wetland to a canal that today is completely absent from the mental maps of the citizens, whereas Colentina was slowly cut off from the city by an uncontrolled process of piecemeal lake-side privatisation. Besides the obvious need of draining the water through the city, neither one or the other seems to have an overall coherence.

Text: Stefan Ghenciulescu

I spent the first 26 years of his life in a modernist building in the Buzeşti neighbourhood, in Bucharest. A good while after my parents and I moved away, around 2010-2011, the building and most of the neighbourhood fell victims to the big and very distructive urban operation. In the years that followed I supported and promoted the efforts to keep as much as it could have been kept, but slowly I started to avoid the area and stop thinking about it. Until recently, when two completely unrelated things things happened.

Mega-malls and urban shopping areas as cornerstone urban elements, including (or especially) in Asia? Far from it. Introducing Kombini, the Japanese army of tiny hyper-organized and adaptable shops.

Text & Photo: Stefan Tuchila

About the recovering (and re-interpretation) of a modest existing construction, a traditional typology, a modern material, and the imperfections of building in post-socialist Romania

Project: Andreas Heierle, Cristina Trofin
Text & photo: Andrei Mărgulescu

Intro & Interview: Ioana Zacharias Vultur

Richard Scott is a British architect, artist and musician. He is a distinguished graduate of Bartlett (UCL) and Sci-Arc (Los Angeles) who worked at the Cornell University and teached History and Theory of Architecture at Bartlett (UCL) and AA School. Beyond the international critical recognition of the studio he founded in 1996 – Surface

Building Blocks, Bucharest 2016

Text: Andreea Ilinca
Photo: eematico, Bogdan Dincă, Iuliana Dumitru    

We, the grown-ups, believe we know it all. We went to schools and have enough experience to be convinced that we understand everything better. Better than whom? Than children, most certainly.

Group show: Felipe Arturo / Alessio delli Castelli / Fernanda Fragateiro / Matias Machado / Jorge Pedro Nuñez
Curated by Marta Jecu

Opening: 16th November 2016, 10 pm @ GALERIA BAGINSKI – Rua Capitão Leitão, 51–53 1950–050 Lisboa, Portugal

Thursday, November 10, 2016, at 7 pm, in the presence of His Excellency, Mr. Werner Hans Lauk – the Ambassador of Germany in Bucharest, seven new exhibitions will open to the public at the National Museum of Contemporary Art – MNAC (The Palace of Parliament)

Are you willing to change the future of libraries transforming them in public hub? Are you a designer or a reporter with a passion for the human centered design approach? Answer to this call and participate in the selections of the best designers and reporters for 5 LIB#LAB with libraries in Europe promoted by the European project New Libraries.

November 4 – 12, 2016 -Bucharest, Romania

The third edition of the Bucharest Art Week (BAW) International Festival examines the way in which contemporary artists, curators and theorists place themselves with respect to the theme of nature and the tradition of the landscape.

In September 2016, Zeppelin moved into one of the top innovative buildings produced in Romania in the last years. We wrote about it, promoted intensively. Now we change the role of the critic to the one of the dedicated user.

The House is integrally built from a locally developed thermo- and hydro-insulating concrete, and the result of a partnership between open and responsible clients, an architect with vision and courage and strongly involved construction partners.