Arhitext Book collections – bilingual books (ro-en)
ESSAYS: the collection «Arhitext archive of ideas» In 2003, the foundation initiated the «Archive of Ideas» project, consisting in the publication of several works aiming to scan the Romanian architectural and urbanistic scene at a much deeper level. The collection successfully included essays on urban planning and/or architecture published by some of the most [...]
A new collection: Prospective nostalgia
The first volume: Fluencies. East and Central European Architecture. The history and evolution of Central and Eastern Europe countries – countries viewed as small, marginal, minor The modern period – with its historical modernization stages, discontinuities and unbalances, ruptures, as well as by feverish quests, abrupt changes and just as abrupt relapses. The nostalgia of [...]
Bogdan Ghiu – Inconstruction. For an ethical architecture
After a political manifest (The Countercrisis, Cartea Românească, 2011) and an existential sketch (Dadasein, Tracus Arte, 2011), The Inconstruction could be defined as a workroom, as a conceptual building site, marking the author’s constant appearances in the issues of Arhitext magazine. It would yet be wrong to see in this book a simple « collection [...]
Mario Kuibuş + Re-Act Now Studio – “Reactive Organisms” – 2009
Mario Kuibuş + Re-Act Now Studio – “Reactive Organisms” – 2009 – 50 lei “In contemporary Romanian architecture, Mario Kuibuş holds an extreme position: he is an advocate of urgent, indisputable, uncompromising occidentalization. However, this turns him rather into an outsider. He admits it himself: he is not at all typical or representative. His marginality [...]
Ioan Andreescu & Vlad Gaivoronschi – “The (Post)modern Challenges of Architecture” – 2008
Ioan Andreescu & Vlad Gaivoronschi – “The (Post)modern Challenges of Architecture” – 2008 – 53,67 lei The monograph extensively presents, in 214 color pages, more than 20 projects achieved jointly or separately by the two architects. “The Andreescu and Gaivoronschi firm is a landmark to be relied on when you want to define something that [...]
Vlad Arsene + Westfourth Architecture – “Challenges of Late Modernity” – 2007
Vlad Arsene + Westfourth Architecture – “Challenges of Late Modernity” – 2007 – 34 lei The presence of W4th Architecture in Bucharest is less enigmatic if we consider the story of architect Vlad Arsene, founder of W4th. A graduate of the “Ion Mincu” School of Architecture, Arsene settled in New York and, after several collaborations [...]
Radu Mihăilescu – “The Inconspicuous Charm of Architecture” – 2006
Radu Mihăilescu – “Farmecul discret al arhitecturii” – 2006 – 26 lei “Architect Radu Mihailescu does not have a studio. Still, he does have consistent architecture. He does not use the computer. At all. Still, his architecture is modern. His works can be best described as discrete. However, when seen up close, they are very [...]
Arhitext Antology – «20 Years After» – 2 volumes – 2010
Arhitext Antology – «20 Years After» – 2 volumes – 2010 – 49 lei On the anniversary of 20 years from the launch of the first issue of Arhitext magazine, we reward the effort, the patience, the dedication and the perseverance of all this team work by launching the Arhitext Antology: Dupa 20 de ani [...]
ANA MARIA ZAHARIADE – 2 volumes: «Symptoms of Transition» – 2009 and 2010
ANA MARIA ZAHARIADE – 2 volumes: «Simptome de tranziţie» – 2009 and 2010, volume I – 18.97 lei; volume II – 27 lei On the Romanian market of architecture works, critical syntheses and essays which also examine the global state of architecture are quite scarce. There aren’t many specialists who consistently express their opinions in [...]
IOAN ANDREESCU & VLAD GAIVORONSCHI – Identity and Alterity in the Urban Space – 2008
IOAN ANDREESCU & VLAD GAIVORONSCHI – Identity and Alterity in the Urban Space – 2008 Such volume features part of the texts written by my colleagues Ioan Andreescu and Vlad Alexandru Gaivoronschi and comes to complete their portrait, which began to be outlined last year with the volume also published under the auspices of Arhitext [...]
Dana Vais – «Arhi-texts – In Search of a New Modernity» (2007)
DANA VAIS – «Arhi-texts – In Search of a New Modernity» – 2007- 28.77 lei The volume consists of four chapters, each of them approaching a specific issue. Thus, the first chapter, titled “Materials and Forms”, discusses two “historical” materials, namely glass and concrete, but also the manner in which the built object changed when [...]
ALEXANDRU M. SANDU – 2 volumes: Sub semnul paradoxurilor; Sâmburele care face să crească – 2006
Professor Alexandru M. Sandu’s articles are collected in these two volumes as sequences in a can-scan and make the force lines visible and ready for debate; such lines cross both our daily lives and the urban/ rural formal/ physical environment pointing to identity and re-generation. The enlivening of such snapshots and their inter-action with the [...]
