Climate in Bucharest - Berzei

This article only aims to present the atmosphere of siege dominating the Buzești - Berzei axis.

"We <n.r.: Romanians> demolish simply to demolish. This is how the Colței Tower, a historical landmark, was demolished. We demolish with demented pleasure, with a sense of triumph (the triumph of barbarism)." Alexandru Paleologu, preface Povestea Caselor

"I turned down, to the right, with all the heat, to see the houses being torn down for the opening of Boulevard Brătianu. I was impatient, as I hadn't been there since the day before. The house on Rue Regale had had its roof lifted and was now left like this, with walls lined with tapestries between which had been the family life, so that one could have looked down from the first floor of the Visante house to see inside, as if inside a human body, open on an operating table. Of course, the furniture was no longer there, but the blue of the wallpaper had enclosed scenes of life: love, sorrows, births, visits; there was the whole stove at the mouth of which some thoughtful woman had certainly sat, and beside it was the little bell in the wall. And now there was a muddy void to the bright, burning depths of the sky. A house without a roof, in summer, is not a house from which tenants move out so that other tenants can move in. It's trespass. No one should be allowed to see a house whose roof is lifted, as a loving mother does not let her servants make the bed in which her embraces have been, but gathers and arranges it herself, at the moment of departure." Camil Petrescu, Procust's Bed

Read the full text in the printed edition of Arhitectura magazine, nr 1/2011