INTER-WAR ARCHITECTURE IN BUCHAREST

Photographs from the Bucharest Municipality Museum’s collection and the collection of the Romanian Academy Library Prints Cabinet.

The exhibition will remain open from January 15th to March 31st.

1918 – 1944 was the period of time that displayed the largest variety of orientations and stylistic explorations, a time when Bucharest went through an intense constructions activity. Once the modernist international style spread through Europe it was largely adopted in Bucharest as well. Modernist apartment-blocks started to appear next to neo-Romanian houses. In this context the city went through different phases: from decorative archaeology to the deep meanings of traditional architecture, entire streets or areas were built in this predominant architectural style.

The exhibition “Inter-war Architecture in Bucharest” is a visual journey, a meeting with the most important creations of architects Ion Mincu, Marcel Iancu, Horia Creangă, Duiliu Marcu, Petre Antonescu, George Matei Cantacuzino, Octav Doicescu.