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Authors: arh. Florian Stanciu, arh. Iulia Stanciu, arh. Roberta Frumușelu, stud. arh. Eduard Untaru, arh. Cristian Beșliu, arh. Cosmin O. Gălățianu, arh. Octavian Bîrsan, arh. Cosmin Georgescu
Firm: STARH - arhitectură, construcții, design

Collaborators:
Text: Florian Stanciu
Traducere în limba engleză: Cristian Beșliu, Iulia Stanciu
Grafică, paginare și editare: Roberta Frumușelu, Eduard Untaru
Tipar: Master Print Super Offset

Authors’ Comment

The present book gathers our projects that, for one reason or another, didn’t get to be built. Most of them date from when we have accommodated our office on Cristofor Columb street and have settled in a more fortunate way, a bit different than before. There are also to be found some older ones from the transition to what we are now. Competitions for instance. Whichever the case, hidden within digital archives, through sketchbooks, on printed boards that lean against the walls, or pages pinned to the cork panels, at a certain moment they have come to claim their right to evade out of pallor and to gain a throbbing ounce of brilliance. Our work is rooted in references of all sorts, both from renowned sources found within reach, and from some more indirect, collateral, unexpected ones found inside, residing in our own projects. All of these have assembled, concentrated and grown in the wake of us, neither too indeterminate sketchbook drafts, nor relentlessly accomplished, neither within, nor beyond; for this reason we have decided to bring them together and, from hereon to forget them, to take some distance away from them, but in a peculiar, distorted and elaborate manner that, at least for us, the ones from this office, succeeds in making them yet to be forgotten.
In fact, we don’t even aim to talk about the projects as such, this is where we keep twisting, they are not shown in a finite wholesomely established form, but as specific situations from within our work; something must be somehow of significance here for them to be worthy of being displayed in a book. By no means, therefore, is this book to be an explicit unfolding of plans, sections, façades, but more of a precious thing, something to paradoxically linger in one’s memory, neither architecture by itself, nor tediously vain thoughts, but a fertile interval more persistent than images, and more memorable than words, a what and a how, neither something definitive, nor superfluous, a narrow road upon which we would carefully like to tread, one that we would like to be described by this book, as, maybe, an act of emphasis and certain relentless vanity. It is here that we begin.



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