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Form following Fiction

Thematic dossier

Prof. dr. arh. Vlad GAIVORONSCHI recommends
Arh. Dragomir (Mirel) DRĂGAN

"Form following Fiction"

Start up Chartres

Mirel belongs to the rarer category (just like Claudiu Toma, belonging to the same generation) of those who are excessively talented at drawing and very close to the visual arts.

As a student, as I remember him, he used to draw in the dark both what he was asked to do at university and many other things: characters, fiction, etc.
In the early 2000s he also established himself in the field of photographic art and not by chance, in parallel with his passion for architecture, in 2013, he developed the cultural magazine of illustrations and graphic narratives "TDB/Therapie de fairy tale" and held animation workshops at the CATA festival, after, about 10 years before, she had held graphic and illustration workshops at the French Cultural Center in Timisoara and, before that, she had participated in international graphic and comic exhibitions (1997 - she won the Grand Prize at the BD Brasov '97 festival and the third prize at BD Constanta 2001).

Ecole Mainteon

Also in the early 2000s, as a student-architect, Mirel was awarded in the competition launched by the OAR (on the occasion of the UIA Congress in Berlin) with the theme "Architecture as a Resource". After finishing his studies, he followed a series of internships in France, the United States and in Radu Mihăilescu's team, which proved very useful in his training as an architect, and his collaborations with French colleagues continue to this day. I would mention the 2013-2014 project of an invitational competition for Start Up Offices in the north of Paris, with an extremely elegant solution. All these years, Mirel has remained faithful to his hometown, Sebeș. In 2004, he made a name for himself with two projects, winning two prizes - one in the "Romanian Contemporary Project" competition launched by De Arhitectură magazine on the occasion of the 2004 Architecture Days and 2nd prize in the competition launched by the Cluj City Hall on the theme "Consolidation and Protection of the Archaeological Site of Unirii Square".

Sebeș

Dragomir (Mirel) DRĂGAN (b. 1979)
2003 - Chicago internship at VRA Architects
2004 - professional internship under the coordination of arh. Radu Mihăilescu
2005 - internship in Tours with Bertrand Penneron Architectes
2005 - Paris internship at RJ Architectes
2006 - Courchevel internship - concept hotel K2
2006-present- Associate Professor at the Polytechnic University of Timișoara, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism
2005-2007 - manager SC Architect's Team SRL, project manager SC Atelierele Arhitech SRL
2007-2008 - PhD student at the Faculty of Platic Arts Timișoara

AWARDS

1996-2001 - Participation in international graphic and comics exhibitions (1997 Grand Prize at BD Brasov '97 and third prize at BD Constanta 2001)
2002 - Prize at the UIA Congress in Berlin on the theme "architecture as a resource"
2004 - Romanian Contemporary Project Competition Prize
2004 - Second Prize in the Competition for the Consolidation and Protection of the Archaeological Site of Unirii Square
2016 - Prize at the Timișoara Architecture Biennale

Several works have attracted attention in recent years, including the Archive Building of the County Hospital 2016 and the Cultural Center of Călacea, jud. Timiș, 2007-2014.

Mirel has remained close to the faculty, working as an associate since 2005, and since last year becoming a full professor.