Monastery of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites - Snagov

Beneficiary: Order of Barefooted Carmelites

Author and project manager: arh. Tudor Rădulescu

Works coordinator and project manager: arch. Andrei Stafacic

Consultant and design of ornaments and wooden details: Ioan Rădulescu

Strength design: eng. Coca Grigorean and eng. Cistin Grigorean

Design and execution of laminated wood for the church: Moretti Interolz

Persons responsible for works on behalf of the beneficiary

Project manager: eng. Giuseppe Sacchetti, Father Antonio Prestipino

I cannot remember how I met my younger colleague Tudor Rădulescu.

I think someone must have introduced us, knowing our common concerns for sacred space.

Coming from Iași, Tudor is already the author of spiritual shrines in Bucharest and its surroundings, he is a fine connoisseur of what we need to know and a seeker of what we are not yet familiar with, not only in terms of religious architecture, but also, for example, the paradigm of complexity in the sciences (from him I learned about Florin Munteanu, who is a natural phenomenon before being an apostle of transdisciplinarity).

That is why I was delighted to receive Tudor's invitation to visit, under his guidance, the Carmelite Monastery near Snagov, which he designed and which, except for the church, is already ready and in use (...)(Augustin Ioan)

Read the full text in issue 6/2012 of Arhitectura magazine.