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Ten Plus One

Ten Plus One TEN PLUS ONE Augustin loan: Zece arhitecti de zece [Top Romanian Architects] Bucure � ti: Noi Media Print, 2003, 79 pages The status of contemporary Romanian architects (and, by extension, of other East-European architects) is, as a historical irony, envied by Western colleagues: the opportunity they had to re-define the 'zero moment' of their profession, was at the same time the chance of post-communist cities to re-consider their her- itage and their perspectives. Unlike other European capitals and beyond any the- oretical issues, in the particular case of the city of Bucharest, the simple fact that there is physical space for almost any kind of interventions, from vast urban sys- tematizations to small, but important objects of street furniture, represents an opportunity that we are not allowed to fail. The architects are responsible for the face of the city, for the good and for the bad, they answer for the more or less vis- ible, well done things, discretely shy or ostentatiously exposed; but 'the others' remember their existence especially when they have to complain - and some- times for good reasons! - of the excrescences unfairly called 'houses,' of failed urban implants, of all the failures, abuses, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png East Central Europe Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 2003 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0094-3037
eISSN
1876-3308
DOI
10.1163/187633003X00180
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Abstract

TEN PLUS ONE Augustin loan: Zece arhitecti de zece [Top Romanian Architects] Bucure � ti: Noi Media Print, 2003, 79 pages The status of contemporary Romanian architects (and, by extension, of other East-European architects) is, as a historical irony, envied by Western colleagues: the opportunity they had to re-define the 'zero moment' of their profession, was at the same time the chance of post-communist cities to re-consider their her- itage and their perspectives. Unlike other European capitals and beyond any the- oretical issues, in the particular case of the city of Bucharest, the simple fact that there is physical space for almost any kind of interventions, from vast urban sys- tematizations to small, but important objects of street furniture, represents an opportunity that we are not allowed to fail. The architects are responsible for the face of the city, for the good and for the bad, they answer for the more or less vis- ible, well done things, discretely shy or ostentatiously exposed; but 'the others' remember their existence especially when they have to complain - and some- times for good reasons! - of the excrescences unfairly called 'houses,' of failed urban implants, of all the failures, abuses,

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East Central EuropeBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2003

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