Tiberiu Niga

In the archives of the U.A.R. there is the registration file of Tiberiu Niga in the Union of Architects of the R.P.R., Bucharest branch, from April ¹⁹⁵³¹.

Tiberiu, Caius, Mihai Niga was born in Arad, on January 12, 1906. In 1919, the Niga family moved to Bucharest, as Ioan Niga had obtained the post of architect at the General Directorate of the Romanian Railways, from where he retired in ¹⁹³⁷².

Tiberiu Niga graduated from the School of Architecture in 1930, with diploma no. 178, and continued his studies with a scholarship for specialization in Paris (1932-1933), obtained through a competition. From the file completed in 1953 it appears that he worked from the age of 18. From 1924 to 1925 he worked as a driver for the building company 'Acțiunea Economica'; from 1926 to 1929 he was a driver for the Ministry of Finance's Directorate of Architecture; from 1928 to 1930 he was employed at the Town Hall of II Negru, then from 1930 to 1931 at the P.T.T. Credit House, but as an architect. His architectural office, located on Bd. Principele Mircea, number 8, operated between 1931-1939, between 1939-1948 preferring to work in the contractor's firm of engineer C. Nicolau.

After 1948 he was employed in different design institutes, such as: C.I.C. (1948-1949), I.P.C. (1949-1952), Proiect București (1953-1957), I.P.C.T. (1957-1959 and 1963-1970), I.S.C.A.S., (1959-1963), I.S.A.R.T. (1970-1973). Tiberiu Niga was President of the Architecture Fund and member of the Steering Committee of the Romanian Union of Architects until 1965 and then between 1971-1979.

Since 1965 he has been a professor at the Institute of Architecture "Ion Mincu", in the department of design for years IV-VI, where his assistants were the architects Aurelian Trișcu, Radu Mănăilă and Lucian Popovici ^3.

In the registration file of Tiberiu Niga as an active member of the Union of Architects of the R.P.R., Bucharest branch, there are two lists in which his projects were listed. The first one is the standard form filled in by T. Niga in pen, listing the works from 1932-1953. The second typed list was attached later and refers to the period 1930-1963.

Under the heading 'professional activity', the architect added: 'preliminary and final designs for about 200 completed constructions, more than 800 studies and competitions for various works: individual dwellings, blocks of flats, office houses, various architectural works, interior decoration, industrial works, town planning studies'.

Housing:

Bucharest: Șoseaua Kiseleff 17 - year 1943, Strada Herăstrău 1 - year 1938, Strada Pictor Negulici 13 - year 1946, Strada Av. Șerban Petrescu 21 - 1939, Strada Radu Vodă 24 - 1936, Bd. Aviatorilor 69 - 1939, Strada Muzeul Zambaccian 13 - 1937, Naum Râmniceanu 25 and 27 Streets - 1938, Ing. E. Pangrati Street 10 - 1939, Finland Street 21 - 1941, Ing. Costinescu 4 - 1938, Calea Dorobanți 237 - 1939, Calea Dorobanți 242 - 1941.

Together with Ioan Niga, his father, they realized the buildings in: Bd. Dacia 42 - 1928, Esculap Street 14 - 1930, Av. Demetriade 12 - 1930, Brezoianu Street 57.

Snagov: the U.S.S.R.S.S. Embassy villa - 1936, the villa of the Scânteii House - 1945.

Sinaia: villa "Ioan Furnică" - 1943, villa "Vrioni" - 1934, villa

"Rozeanu" villa - 1935.

Predeal: villa "Protopopescu" - 1939.

Brașov: villa "Grossu" - 1938.

Ploiești: villa "Ing. Petrescu" villa - 1930, "Dr. Băiatu" villa - 1931,

Rusciuc: villa "Vescoff" - 1936

Collective dwellings with few levels:

București: P+5 building, Bd. Lascăr Catargiu 45 - 1936, building P+2, Delavrancea II Street - 1937, building P+2, Dr. Lister 44B Street - 1937, building P+1, Italian Street 8 - 1935, building P+2, Armașului 10 - 1935, building P+3, Aurel Vlaicu 34 Street - 1934, building P+3, Brezoianu 57 Street - 1934, economic housing P+1 in Cățelu Street - 800 apartments (1955), apartment complex, Bd. Muncii - 400 apartments (1955), buildings P+3, P+5 (1955).

Cluj: building P+3, Avram Iancu Street, number 3 - 1932.

Reșița: P+3 building, Victoriei Street - 1941.

Brașov: Steagul Roșu II, III, IV - 1.500 apartments (1962).

Resița: apartment blocks (1962).

Iași: P+4 buildings of large panels, Strada C. I. Parhon and Lunca Bahluiului (1962).

Roman: P+4 large panel buildings (1961).

Bacău: P+4 large panel buildings (1961).

Multi-storey collective housing:

Bucharest: building P+9-10 , Strada Brezoianu 53 - 1945, building P+8, Strada Dionisie Lupu 18 - 1948, building Construcția Capitalei P+9, Bd. Carol 62 - 1931, building GF+6, Intrarea Biserica Albă number 3 - 1932, building GF+6, Bd. Dacia 49 - 1938, building Gf + 8, Bd. Dacia 53 - 1937, building GF+5, Luterană Street 3 - 1933, building GF+5, Mihai Eminescu Street 36 - 1935, building GF+5, Maria Rosetti Street 43A - 1932, complex of 1,000 apartments in the R.P.R. Palace Hall Square - IPCT project, in collaboration with architect L. Garcea - 1959.

Brașov: Astra Vagoane Brașov, 1.000 places of the UDR

Reșița.

Administrative buildings:

Bucharest: Ministry of Petroleum and Chemical Industry, Scaune Street 1 - 1947, office building Stelea Street II - 1938, PTT Palace, Șoseaua Ștefan cel Mare - 1940.

Reșița: General Directorate and CFU Railway Station - 1940.

Zalău: political-administrative headquarters - 1969.

Petroșani Coal Washing Plant, Astra Vagoane Brașov workshops, in collaboration with the contractor eng. C. Nicolau.

Social-cultural buildings:

Reșița: house of culture and 800-seat theater, 1949-1953.

Tohan: the auditorium of the "6 Martie" Factory, with 750 seats - 1957.Ploiești: reconstruction of the "Petru and Pavel" Secondary School - 1949, the 1,000-seat canteen of the "1 Mai" Factory - 1950.

Bucharest: Floreasca Nautical Club (1941), guest house of the Reșița Society (1940).

Iași: Bucium Church.

Public architectural and urban planning competitions:

First Prize:

CFR Administration Palace, Bd. 6 Martie, UCEA administrative building complex, Ministry of Domains - purchased project, rural type bathroom (CCSAC competition), Lawyers Union Palace.

Second prize:

People's Council type (SCACAC competition), Bicaz hydropower plant, UGIR Palace.

Mentions:

Systematization of the Palace Square, Study and elaboration of the systematization sketch of the Capital in the years 1953-1956, Arad Municipal Theatre, Arad Municipal Swimming Pool, 200 seats Club (CSAC competition), Birth House type (CSAC competition), Rural Dispensary type (CSAC competition), CCA Square (CSAC competition), SMT systematization (CSAC competition).