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"Die Kunstfabrik

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Arh. Adrian Roland KUNST

"Die Kunstfabrik"

The architect Roland Kunst is a lecturer at the University of Fine Arts Bucharest, where he teaches the discipline of Specialized Design within the Design Department - specialization in Environmental Design, has an important activity as a graphic and object designer, as well as architect, being the author of projects for individual housing, industrial spaces and, in particular, commercial spaces that solve marketing issues and add value to the sales strategies of customers.
During his studies he apprenticed in the workshops of architects Marius Marcu-Lapadat, Victor Ilieșiu and Radu Teacă, and as a graphic designer - in the firm Ad-Hoc Advertising, later working as an architect in Adest Architecture.
At the beginning of the 2000's he was a young entrepreneur and associate in the firm 3PACK, later MDLB Multimedia, and a lecturer in the Department of Form and Design Studies at the "Ion Mincu" Institute of Architecture. Since his studies he has been attracted by graphic and industrial design, conceived as innovation and applied professional approach, realizing numerous works for various clients.
Since 2003 he has been active in his own office "die Kunstfabrik", working together with the team he leads for various clients at home and abroad. Among them we can mention Pepsico, Star Foods, L'Oreal Paris, Unilever, Siniat, Reckitt Benckiser, Johnson Wax, Holcim, Pfizer, Legrand, Cora, Maspex, Amigo, DAAD, Vinclub Odobești, Petrom, Vel Pitar, GTC, Epstein Architecture, Coffeăriile Delice - Câmpina, Topline, Intervitt, Electronic Doctor, Evolio, Homplex, Standard Snacks etc.
Adrian Kunst, architect and designer, has chosen and "built" architects and designers, an initiatory and cultural act that has led him to an area of evanescent values, where, alongside ratios and proportions, point and counterpoint, the act of initiation takes place in a different geometry.
From 1999-2001 he was a preparator, and from 2009-2017 he was assistant and then lecturer in the specialized design department of the Product Design section of the Faculty of Interior Architecture, and since February 2017 he is a lecturer at UNARTE, in the Faculty of Decorative Arts and Design, Design section.
Under my supervision he has developed an outstanding doctoral thesis - "Architect Nicolae Cucu in the Romanian and European context of the architecture of the 30s and 70s". This doctoral thesis has a particular significance, as it attempts to make an act, both moral and scientific, of recovering data on the life and work of an architect whom some of us, fewer and fewer each day, have had the good fortune to have had the fortune of having had him as a teacher. Of an architect who, after a long and prodigious professional and pedagogical career, has been forgotten due to carelessness, ignorance and political motives.

caption><img src= The work is the result of a long and difficult documentation and has a well-defined purpose: that of reconsidering and placing the architect Nicolae Cucu and his work in its well-deserved place in the history of Romanian architecture.
This study attempts to extract, in a critical way, from the built and written work of the great architect the elements capable of defining his complex inner creative process, to clarify the problem of similarities and differences between the approaches, methods, terms and concepts that circulate both in the language of philosophy (often coherent in its logic and form) and that of architects (often incoherent, illogical and formally deficient). What the philosopher understands by the fundamental concept of 'architecture' is similar, but by no means identical, to what the architect understands.
If we were to conclude the lines dedicated to Adrian Kunst, we could say that his approach to architecture can be considered paradigmatic, but not in the classical sense of a principle that distinguishes the fundamental connections and oppositions between some dominant notions with the command and control functions of thought, but as a large-scale mental construction that provides an individual or a community, in a given period, with the foundation for creating and defining an identity and self-consciousness, thus aiming at solving problems or tasks in a temporal dimension particularized to architecture.