Arhitectura 3-4/2025 (717-718)

ARCHITECTURE 3-4/2025, Greetings from the Spa is an issue built around a fragile and essential heritage: Romania's spa resorts, many of which are still awaiting rescue interventions, and the magazine becomes a necessary space to review these possibilities, territories, understand them, and rethink their future. The issue opens with a contemplation, an essayistic fiction that transforms ruin into a living character, capable of speaking to us about time, memory, and inner reconstruction. A text that sets the tone for the entire magazine: not only informative, but also emotional, meditative, cultural. This is followed by a series of studies, reports, and analyses dedicated to Romanian spa heritage, from Băile Herculane to Govora, Borsec, Olănești, and Mangalia. The HerculaneProject, presented extensively in the pages of the magazine, becomes an example of cultural activism and a demonstration that heritage can be saved through community, education, and sensitive, phased, and reversible interventions. The photographs, diagrams, and technical explanations reconstruct both the fragility of these places and their hope. The magazine brings together:– historical and critical studies on spa resorts;– restoration, reactivation, and enhancement projects;– visual essays and cultural interventions;– analyses of the architecture of water, time, and memory;– reflections on how these "microcosms cut off from the world," as Bernard Toulier called them, can become active, relevant, and accessible again. At a time when the discussion about heritage oscillates between nostalgia and precariousness, ARHITECTURA 3-4/2025 proposes a lucid and sensitive way of looking at these places – not as relics, but as cultural organisms that can generate the future. This issue is intended not only for specialists, but for anyone interested in architecture, culture, landscape, history, and urban regeneration. It is an invitation to explore, to remember, and to embrace a type of cultural responsibility that often begins with a deep understanding of the places we inherit.