School

The phrase "School of Architecture" may seem nonsense to the uninitiated, given that it is a faculty and one whose duration can cover two ordinary ones. But for those who have gone through it and serve it, it is a familiar way of relating to a place of professional growth and social fulfillment. Let us remember what Grigore Cerchez wrote in 1912 on the frontispiece of the faculty in Bucharest, and then we will understand where we are coming from. Concealing a kernel of pride of initiatory belonging, the Romanian school of architecture has kept this appellation over time, becoming a nominative tradition.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the first Romanian school of architecture was set up in Bucharest around some of the great personalities of the profession. Seventy years later, the phenomenon was repeated in Iasi around the powerful personality of Nicolae Porumbescu and the young architects in his team, who laid the foundations of what we now call the Iasi School of Architecture. The chance to have as a founding act a pure and altruistic enthusiasm is rare and that is precisely why it obliges us to preserve a candor in the educational act.