Arhitectura 3-4/2022 (699-700)

The waters of the Danube roll downstream fragments of rock, sand, rotting wood, dried leaves and grasses of all kinds, fish scales and fish eggs, snakes' bones and skins, birds' feathers and all the debris that man throws into the water over thousands of kilometers - silt. Silt is what the Danube comes to deposit before the spill, like a confession in a foreign language, as the result of a bitter struggle between water and everything else. A struggle between opposing elements, between rigid and fluid, but a fertile struggle because water conquers and nourishes, transforms, sustains and survives. Water works ceaselessly, moving ceaselessly in all directions, constantly, continuously, breaking, digging, growing, almost invisible, almost imperceptible. It is about the lands formed from these sediments of elements and history that we want to talk in the pages that follow.

We invite you to go through the pages of the magazine as if we were in a boat gently carried downstream by the still waters of a canal. In the boat will be several rowers who will tell their story of the Delta. They are people who once, long ago or perhaps recently, came to discover, know, love and fear for the Delta.

Some will make you dream in the colors of birds' feathers, others will resurrect places whose glow has long faded. Others will suddenly awaken you from your reverie and frighten you with their cruel truth-telling.