Tex translated by Sorana Corneanu

Augustin Ioan, Ph.D, teaches theory and philosophy of architecture at the Institute of Architecture in Bucharest. A fellow of New Europe College and Collegium Budapest (institutes of advanced study), he is also the vice-president of the Union of Architects. He has written and published extensively in Romania and abroad on the 20^th century built environment.

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[i]Diverse in their architecture (to put it mildly), eclectic and picturesque (turned grotesque in the latter?s case) in their medley of scales, decorations, inhabitants, both routes have the chance to revive as main comercial and leisure areas of the city.

[ii]An entry at the competition on the future of the House of the Republic and its surroundings, later on published in Arhitectura si Puterea, Agerfilm, 1992.