Architecture projects

1922

URBANISM

I see the urgent need to restore Bucharest and I tried to outline a new urban planning direction, which seems an utopia even today. (M.J.)

INTRAREA AVRAM ZENOVIE

In 1922, Herman Janco – the architect’s father – opens an alley on one side of the 10.000 square meters garden that lay at the back of his house on Trinității Street. On the same land, Marcel Janco will build, in 1926, the first modernist house in Bucharest, and the rest of the property will be subjected to a new plot in 1934.
On this alley some traditional houses will be built, ground floor and first floor, of a relatively modest standard. These are the first houses in Bucharest that can be attributed to Marcel Janco, although the project is signed together with architect I. Rosenthal.

1923-1925

INTERIOR - EXTERIOR

Today’s pseudo-architects know how to paint nudes, sculpt ornaments, watercolour façades. Architecture is, however, solely and entirely the ar