Timisoara School of Architecture at the age of 50

It is 50 years since the School of Architecture in Timișoara was founded in 1970 within the "Traian Vuia" Polytechnic Institute, nowadays Polytechnic University - UPT, as a 3-year higher education institution; it is also 20 years since the School of Architecture resumed its activities in 1990, this time with a 6-year program plus some master's degrees, with the status of Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism.

About 100 years ago, in Hungary at that time, the clear idea of setting up a second Faculty of Architecture in Timișoara, after the one in Budapest, was clearly emerging. In the whole of Romania after 1918, after the establishment of the Timișoara Polytechnic School following the royal decree of 1920, the Faculty of Construction was also established in 1941, following the outstanding efforts of the Timișoara architect Victor Vlad. The Department of Architecture was born in 1970. In only a few years what would have seemed unlikely became possible: at that time a unique phenomenon in the landscape of Romanian architectural education, a creative avant-garde school, emerged. Born, like its "sisters" in Cluj and Iași, from the efforts of outstanding graduates of the "ION MINCU" Institute of Architecture in Bucharest, it built its own identity thanks to the creative, cosmopolitan and intercultural environment of Timișoara at that time. This in turn had antecedents in the interwar period and not only, those related to technological innovation, but also those highlighted by Anca Brătuleanu in her book published by ArtPres Publishing House in 2016, TIMIȘOARA IN THE PERIOD BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS, URBANISM AND ARCHITECTURE, which highlights the avant-garde character of some of the models realized for the future Timișoara (GOLICITY, Montecapela) by Ernst Muhle and especially the letters and the direct relationship between Victor Deznai, an interwar journalist from Timișoara, and Le Corbusier and CIAM, thanks to his passion for urbanism and sociology.