The post-war Romanian coastal project: a call for a transregional critical history

In recent times, the critical history of post-war architecture is gradually beginning to break out of the major narrative lines and to branch out and nuance, both through interdisciplinary approaches and the publication of emblematic case studies, as well as all the minor local and/or national histories and the partial and complicated connections between them - connections often limited by language or by barriers of accessibility and/or visibility in the public space.
It is already a fact affirmed in countless recent critical investigations: throughout the communist period, the Romanian architectural theoretical discourse is successfully symbolized by the seaside project, by faithfully materializing to the highest standard the innovative architectural ideas of the post-war era and by its ideal, mythical dimension, a dimension repeatedly invoked from multiple positions and directions by scholars. The reasons and ways in which it absorbed, through various channels of communication