Eugeniu Iordăchescu

Interview conducted on February 23, 2011 by Adrian BĂLTEANU and Simina STAN

Eugeniu Iordăchescu, technical director at Institutul Proiect Bucharest between 1974-1996 <approximate dates given by the interviewee>. For the conception of the method of moving buildings he received the invention patent no. 80.218/1982, entitled "Procedure and installation for lifting and moving buildings". He has translated 25 buildings <approximate dates given by interviewee>.

Reporter: Thank you for kindly granting this interview to the magazine Arhitectura.Eugeniu Iordăchescu: Your invitation is a pleasure, I care about your magazine, we collaborated very well before 1989.

R: What do you consider to be the most important application of translation?EI: Let's suppose, absurdly, that the idea is to demolish the Athenaeum and rebuild it. We do that, but we will no longer have the historic monument preserved today. I remember one of the similar cases that I faced. The First Secretary of Valcea County, hearing about this technique, contacted me. They wanted to widen the road to Olănești, and the Anton Pann House was on the site of the future roadway. He told me "we don't have many special buildings in our town, we would like you to help us with the relocation of the Anton Pann House, as you did with the Schitul Maicilor". The deputy mayor, who was also present, said that, being a peasant house, built of boulders, it would be easier to rebuild on the new site. I explained to him that it would no longer be Anton Pann's house, and he understood the blunder. The work was very difficult because of the river boulder walls.

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