Architects and architecture at the Danube-Black Sea Canal - personalities, fragments, memory

The architecture proposed and built on the Romanian Black Sea coast during the period in question, taking into account the de rigueur extensions, started out weakly, in a socialist-realist vein (early 1950s), gained a certain detachment in the second part of the decade, and was ambitiously completed in the 1960s and 1970s. The entire interval was marked by a particular destalinization and a return to a (to some extent) indecisive and progressive modernism, constituting one of the most notable projects of our post-war architecture. In my opinion, one of the main transformations - albeit slow, perhaps even (too) late - which began in the second half of the 1950s, involved the valorization of architects previously put on the index, the recovery of the majority of those who had been politically imprisoned (over 200) and the removal of ideological rigors, at least to some extent. In short, the regime allowed professionals to demonstrate their talent, and they were not slow to prove it.