Event

"Arh. Munteanu 70" Retrospective exhibition

"I am not what I think I am. The voice inside tells me: You are not what you think you are! I usually don't want to listen to it because it annoys me." Amazing remark! It belongs to the famous director Andrei Șerban. Full of truth!

I didn't want to listen to my inner voice either, I ignored it, I chose to expose, to expose myself...

The truth about what I've accomplished in these years is revealed to me today. Unpleasant, overwhelmingly sad, when I discover some of my buildings aged, unkempt, altered, affected by the passage of time and the carelessness of my fellow men.

However, on this wonderful journey, I have also had pleasant surprises when the people for whom I have drawn have recognized me after many years, have remembered me, the one who made their home.

My mentors in architecture were Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, who gave the most beautiful definition of architecture.

In our architecture, I had the great Octav Doicescu as a teacher. I loved G. M. Cantacuzino, for his writings in general, and particularly for those about Iași, and the architect Nicolae Porumbescu for his extraordinary tenacity, the unique beauty of his drawings, the courage to go his own way, a sort of Gaudi of Romanians. I have a great admiration for the architect Mario Botta, a master of form with substrate, his works are true poems.

The exhibited material is organized into seven themes: housing, social-cultural, sacred architecture, restorations, railway works, leisure and minor architecture, systematization, with the idea of following a possible evolution within each of them.