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People at work in their homes

Authors:
Editors: Ștefan Ghenciulescu, Dorothee Hasnaș, Andreea Drăghicescu
Authors: Mihai Duțescu, Cătălina Frâncu, Ștefan Ghenciulescu, Dorothee
Hasnaș, Dorothea Nicolescu, Miklós Péterffy, Ilinca Pop, Irina Tulbure, Costin Zamfir
Firm: Zeppelin + ISG Studio

Collaborators:
Publicație editată de către Editura Universitară „Ion Mincu”, în parteneriat cu Asociația Zeppelin și SG Studio.
Reportaje fotografice: Laurian Ghinițoiu, Corneliu Grigoriu, Dragoș Lumpan, Andrei Mărgulescu, Cristian Oprea, Sabin Prodan, Marius Vasile
Design grafic: Radu Manelici
DTP: Aurelian Ardeleanu
Corectură: Dușa Udrea‑Boborel
Redesenare și reconstituire planuri, cercetare: Matei Barbu, Gabriela Bilan, Cristina Ciobanu, Andrei Culinescu, Andra Ghenoiu, Alexandra‑Caragiu Gheorghiță, Alexandra Iosif, Andrei Ivanovits, Andreea Manea, Cezara Matei, Flavia Nechițelea, Rora Paliga, Theodora
Popescu, Sorin Olteanu, Martha Robănescu, Andrada Spătaru, Patricia Stan, Camelia Stanciu, Maria Stanciu, Tudor Stănilă, Gabriela Udrea, Ionuț Ursachi
O parte dintre planurile redesenate provin din cartea Locuința românească.
Un fișier, autori: Cristina Constantin, Cosmin Pavel (Abruptarhitectura).
Imagini și documente de epocă: Arhivele Muzeului Național al Literaturii Române, Muzeului Municipiului București, Muzeului Național de Artă al României, Muzeului Național al Literaturii Române Iași, Utilitas SRL
Parteneri:
Muzeul Național al Literaturii Române – București: Ioan Cristescu (director general), Andreea Drăghicescu, Adrian David, Dorotheea Niculescu, Lelia Spirescu, Greta Șuteu
Muzeul Municipiului București: Adrian Majuru (director), Eliana Radu, Adrian Șonka
Echipa Zeppelin: Raluca Marțiș, Mugur Grosu, Sonia Lascu
Mulțumiri:
Muzeul Național de Artă al României: Călin‑Alexiu Stegerean (director
general), Raluca Velisar, Patricia Bădulescu
Muzeul Național al Țăranului Român: Virgil Nițulescu (director), Tudor Elian
Muzeul Național al Literaturii Române Iași: Iulian Pruteanu; Bojdeuca lui
Ion Creangă, Valentin Talpalaru
Casa artelor „Dinu Lipatti”: Alice Barb (director), Irina Hasnaș, Carina Tudorache
Utilitas SRL: Bálint Szabó, Imola Kirizsan
Fundația Gellu Naum: Dan Matei (președinte)
Adrian Scripcariu, Virgil Scripcariu, Lia Perjovschi, Dan Perjovschi,
Marlene Herberth, Alex Herberth, Rucsandra Pop, Jean‑Lorin Sterian
Georgiana Ghenciulescu – autoarea titlului cărții

Authors’ Comment

One way or naother, we all worked from home too. But, starting with 2020, we head to reconsider the relation between work and dwelling. And we still don’t really know how our houses, offices, atrliers and schools are going to look like.
In order to look ahead in a good way, we believe we also have to look in a good way back. This book is dedicated to dwellings in Romania that also served as working spaces for culturally significant people in the last 150 years. We treid to lllok in a different way to (houses of) people that stronfly defined our modern history and which sometimes also weew or turned into architects.
We are talking about charming houses and what happened inside them, but aslo how they may serve as a model for today’s architecture and habitation.
Histroy becomes part of the present. Archive images and plans stay alongside new photos and redrawn or sometimes even reconstructed plans. W are discovering a living heritage, we understand differently and also get closer to the frozen characters from our school manuals.
Istoria devine parte a prezentului; imaginile şi planurile de arhivă sunt însoţite de reportaje fotografice noi şi de planuri redesenate sau chiar reconstituite. Descoperim un patrimoniu viu, înţelegem altfel şi ne apropiem de personajele îngheţate din manuale.
We pay a visit and find out about 14 homes and about thoser that designed, built and used them. Among the selected houses are the ones of Ion Creangă in Iaşi, Theodor Aman, Cuţescu Storck, Amiral Urseanu, Dinu Lipatti, George Bacovia, Henriette Delavrancea Gibory, designs by famous Modernists Horia Creangă and Duiliu Marcu,by arhitect Károly Kós in Cluj, self-built houses by famous writers such asTudor Arghezi and Gellu Naum, Comana.
The last chapter is about today’s hybrids and what they share with their older counterparts as well as a synthesis of features that can shape a good model for the future. Examples are atlier-houses in Transylvania (Marlene and Alex Herberth (KraftMade) in Cincu, Lia and Dan Perjovschi’s Contemporary Art Archive in Sibiu), or near Bucharest (the Piscu Museum by Virgil and Adriana Scripcariu).

2022

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