Na(rra)tions. Essays on East and Central European Architecture

Authors’ Comment

This collection of essays brings together the 11 finalist papers of the 2016 Critical Discourses essay competition, in a volume opened by an introductory text kindly offered by Prof. Alberto Pérez-Gómez, professor at McGill University, Montreal, Australia.
The volume of essays is considered as a collection of critical texts and offers a unique reading keys to the architectural phenomenon in Central and Eastern Europe through the contribution of practitioners, students, teachers, theoreticians, whose works were Appreciated by the international jury chaired by Alberto Pérez-Gómez as relevant, original, consistent.
The topics addressed in the nominated essays range from critical retrospectives, environmental issues, urban issues, architectural and cultural aspect, to questioning the legitimacy of architectural intervention in the contemporary context. It is a diversity that reflects the very diversity of everyday life, subject to unpredictable impulses and flows, often economic, ecological, political, social, etc.

Related projects:

Edition 2015, Architecture Books Section

Indigenous Aliens. Mediators of Architectural Modernity

arch. Toader Popescu, arch. Ana Maria Zahariade, arch. Miruna Stroe, arch. Radu Ponta, arch. Ilinca Păun Constantinescu, arch. Daniela Calciu, arch. Monica Sebestyen, Magda Teodorescu, arch. Horia Radu Moldovan, urb. Andreea Udrea, arch. Irina Calotă, arch. Gabriela Tabacu, arch. Tudor Elian, arch. Irina Băncescu, Kázmér Kovács

Edition 2012, Architecture Books Section

Essential monographies. Architecture and constructions magazine. House studies and plans.

arch. Gabriela Tabacu

Edition 2010, Architecture Section

“Tomescu” House

arch. Gabriela Tabacu

Edition 2007, Interior Design Section

Small arrangement for good people

arch. Gabriela Tabacu

Edition 2007, Studies and Projects Section

Study for a multifunctional complex

arch. Gabriela Tabacu

Edition 2007, Studies and Projects Section

Study for a tennis academy

arch. Gabriela Tabacu

Edition 2007, Architecture Books Section

Nomination for the “Architecture Books” section

„Arhitectura” periodical. Monographic study and indexes 1906-1944

arch. Gabriela Tabacu

Edition 2006, Restorations Section

Prize of the “Restorations” section

Restoration, consolidation, extension, giving a new function, and interior design for a company headquarters

arch. Gabriela Tabacu

Edition 2005, Interior Design Section

Rehabilitation/interior design of the lobby of HUMANITAS publishers

arch. Gabriela Tabacu