Thematic dossier

Sensitivity, freshness

Thematic dossier

Conf. dr. arh. Vlad Sebastian RUSU
recommends arh. Lázár Csaba

Sensitivity, freshness

caption><img src= Colleague and friend Lázár Csaba Lázár Csaba is a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism in Cluj. Both during his studies and after graduation he has worked with recognized offices in Cluj, his internship and work as a registered architect currently being carried out in the Cluj office Mossfern.
The architect Lázár Csaba has distinguished himself as one of the most talented colleagues since his university years, his projects and the maturity of his approach confirm this. In fact, in the memory of the Cluj School of Architecture and of us, the teaching staff, his diploma thesis has remained one of the most notable projects, due to the complexity and maturity of the approach of a functional reconversion of an industrial site in his home town Vlăhița and its return to the local community. The project was noticed and became a finalist for the Audience Award at Média Építészit Díja 2014, and was subsequently published on the Hungarian architectural platform Építészfórum.

His professional activity during his university years included a series of collaborations with the architecture and urbanism office Planwerk, where Csaba was part of the design teams for the competition solutions for the "New Control Tower of Cluj Airport", a finalist project, and "Redevelopment of the Central Market in Bistrița", a project with which he and his colleagues won first place.
Csaba 's interest in participating in architectural competitions continued after graduation, and his involvement in various formulas and design teams was rewarded almost always with prizes. In 2015, he won the ideas competition for the "Restoration, enhancement and refunctionalization of the Small Trianon Palace, Florești locality, Prahova County" (together with fellow architects Anca Mihai, Andrei Bacoșcă, Mădălina Perju and Daniel Șerban), and in 2018 he was awarded with the third place in the international solutions competition for the "Landscape rehabilitation and reactivation of the Railway Park in Cluj" (together with colleagues Andrei Bacoșcă, Ruxandra Grigoraș, Mădălina Perju and Daniel Șerban).

caption><img src= Since 2014, architect Lázár Csaba Lázár Csaba has been a member of the Mossfern team in Cluj, having the opportunity to work in one of the Romanian architectural offices that passionately delve into architectural design. His collaboration with the architect Macalik Arnold demonstrates this aspect, through the value of the projects realized together, recognized in the national professional environment: the First Prize at the Solutions Competition for the "Urban planning of Kogălniceanu Street and adjacent streets in Cluj" and the Rural Section Prize at the National Biennale of Architecture for the project "St. Ana Chapel" in Siculeni, both obtained in 2018.
Despite the difference in scale between the two projects, one of urban planning and one of architectural object, the sensitivity, freshness and maturity of the professional approach confirm the direction Csaba has taken since his university years.
But things certainly do not stop here. I am convinced that we are only at the beginning of an exceptional professional career, the architect Lázár Csaba Lázár Csaba managing, despite all the known difficulties of the profession, to become and remain one of the young graduates of the Cluj University, promoters of the profound values of contemporary architecture.