Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism

Reimagining Bucharest’s Central Station: PPP and Air Rights as Tools for Metropolitan Integration

Railway-station redevelopment is increasingly associated with transit-oriented development, land-value capture, and metropolitan regeneration, yet post-socialist station areas remain insufficiently examined through an integrated spatial, operational, and financing lens. This pape...

A Computational Method for Measuring Landmark Visibility Change Caused by Urban Infill Development

This study proposes a method to quantify how infill insertion affects the visibility of landmarks. Visibility impacts are rarely assessed because existing visibility methods provide limited support for comparing conditions before and after new volumes are introduced into establis...

Neo-Byzantinism, National Identity and the National Cathedral: Monumental Religious Art in Modern and Contemporary Romania

This three-part article examines the encounter between Byzantine visual tradition and modern art in Romania, from the nineteenth century to the mosaics of the National Cathedral in Bucharest. Part I argues that interwar Romania was almost the only Orthodox country to convert the...

The Architecture of Absence: Memorial Architecture in Romania from the Archaic Cross to the Mărășești Mausoleum and Brâncuși's Way of the Heroes

This article examines the origins and the interwar consolidation of memorial architecture in Romania and argues that the Romanian memorial has never lost a latent sacred function inherited from Orthodox ritual. It first distinguishes the monument from the memorial, the former des...

Neo-Byzantinism, National Identity and the National Cathedral: Monumental Religious Art in Modern and Contemporary Romania

This three-part article examines the encounter between Byzantine visual tradition and modern art in Romania, from the nineteenth century to the mosaics of the National Cathedral in Bucharest. Part I argues that interwar Romania was almost the only Orthodox country to convert the...

Man and the Center of the World: A Short History of the Map

The maps we use today, in navigation apps and on tourist plans of the cities we visit, appear at first sight to be purely utilitarian instruments. This essay argues that the map has never been a neutral representation of the world. From its first appearance it has been a cultural...

Representations of the Sacred in Romanian Visual Art: The Garden, Utopia, the Temple, and the City

This study reads sacred architecture as an open process rather than a finished object, one that begins with the divine prototypes revealed in the Bible (the Garden of Eden, the Tabernacle, the Temple, Jerusalem, and the New Jerusalem) and continues in every encounter between a bu...