Bureau for Art and Urban Research (B.A.C.U. Association)

The architecture of the socialist period (1933-1991) and the orientations of those years, of socialist realism and modernism, have become increasingly popular among specialists in the field. Perhaps one of the reasons is that, until recently, these types of architecture have not been sufficiently explored in the wider context of world architecture, so that many consider them a mere curiosity. The two architectural phenomena (socialist-realist architecture and socialist-modernist architecture) have been as much ignored locally as globally, not only by experts but also by public authorities (here we are talking about the former Socialist Bloc: Romania, Republic of Moldova, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, etc.), for political reasons. For this reason, they have not benefited from sufficient academic research, being systematically associated with communism.
Our organization, B.A.C.U., focuses on the promotion of modernist architecture after the Second World War (1955-1989/91) - this would