RePAD Guide. Rehabilitation_Patrimony Architecture Development

MISSION :

PUBLISHER : FUNDS : author & project coordinator

Rhabillage Association

The Administration of the National Cultural Fund

RePAD Guide is a concept book about economic development in relation to the architectural heritage. Starting with simple observation exercises, the project, book and DVD, leads the reader through legislative, economic, technical and strategic issues, constantly using unitary and accessible language.

As the heritage itself, the book is a story that is revealed step by step. It is a personal study that intrigues and invites to involvement.

AWARDS : nominations for concept design

. ‘The Most beautiful books’

. ‘Good for print’

It is a legacy to share futher on.

Building Stories

MISSION :

PUBLISHER : AWARDS : co-author & graphic designer

An illustrated children’s story of old buildings coming to life. The making of this book was done manually in a special edition of 50 items. A story in a book that travels.

A story for any age that explores creatively the intriguing possibilities of transitions and heritage and forms of connection.

In addition to carefully hand bound pages, Building Stories includes a practical section of easy-to-enter names and locations of readers far from all over.

D3SIGNbox Creative nominations for concept design ‘The Most beautiful books’ ___2015

Bucharest, the little Paris?

MISSION : author Green Lines Institute awarded paper for ‘Authenticity and Built Heritage’ at the REHAB International Conference in Portugal

Initiated in 2010, as a comparative urban analysis through photographic techniques, the project emerged into a transdisciplinary methodology in order to create a strong documented support for a deep research on local cultural identity. The innovative nature of the work results from the complex approach on the issued matter, the mix between a rather technical and urban study and an artistic vision, free and even playful at once. Built on a systematic and structured analysis, the results to be shown are presented in a formal way, graphic and of complex composition. Based on the case study of Bucharest versus Paris, the aim of the paper is to support a critical debate on the limits of cultural transfers and their power to change ideas at urban scale and to make room for a better understanding of the cross-border dimension of heritage and the role of cultural particularisation in the globalisation process.

Exhibitions & Filmmaking

The Mourning Houses project

Bucarest, la mal-aimee

In May 2006, 24 panels of 6sqm were placed in seven of the busiest metro stations in Bucharest, presenting heritage buildings in decay with a personal message addressed to the viewers. The awareness event was the first addressing the fragile state of the local heritage to the general public in Bucharest.

Under the curatorship of the french architect and photographer Ferrante Ferranti, the exhibition aimed to use the contemporary perspective over the actual state of Bucharest’s heritage through the lens of 8 photographers as awareness concerning the consequences of the local architectural decline.

Participation at the 7th ed. of Surexposition

Timișoara - exhibition of urban documentary photography - under the curatorship of the parisian architecture office Encore Heureux.

Site Under Constructionparticipation at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale

Bucharest, the little Paris?

guest artist author author

Photographic documentary for the Malaxa industrial heritage site in Bucharest, as part of an exhibition presenting the status of the Romanian industrial sites from the XXth century.

The aim of the comparative urban analysis is to support a critical debate on the limits of cultural transfers and their power to change ideas at urban scale, and to make room for a better understanding of the cross-border dimension of heritage and the role of cultural particularisation in the globalisation process.

A bottom up historical research from the perspective of the intricate relationship between performance and place, as seen through the actual state of the inherited buildings created by the two prolific Viennese architects, Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer.

Re_PAD. Rehabilitation_ Patrimony Architecture Development

The truth is to be found in the archives

The theatres of Fellner & Helmer

The documentary is part of the RePAD project, launched in late 2013 and presents, through the lens of 7 interviews, a number of mechanisms by which a city can approach an integrated development strategy.

The film presents the formative path followed by the art historian Cezara Mucenic, the Phd obtained under “special” conditions during the difficult times of communism in the 1970s80s and her historical studies as an expert in historical monuments.

The research process is based on 11 on-site visits, in Iasi, Oradea, Cluj Napoca, Timisoara, Zagreb, Rijeka, Varazdin, Budapest, Graz and Vienna, and 36 interviews with people connected to the F&H theatre life.

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Side Notes

Romanian Art Scene 2009-2011

30 under 30 Forbes Romania

17th Venice Architecture

Biennale - Romanian

Participation guest artist selected influencer jury member

The project aims to promote creative people and archive contemporary art and urban culture events in Romania, through visual, performing and interdisciplinary arts.

For the 3rd time in a row, in 2014, Forbes Romania through the annual special edition 30 under 30, honoured courage, innovation, excellence and good initiatives, awarding the most impressive evolutions of the young generation in the past years.

The Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Romanian Cultural Institute and the Union of Romanian Architects organized the competition for the selection of the project that will represent Romania at the 17th edition of the International Architecture Exhibition - at Biennale di Venezia.

___2010