RUDOLF FRÄNKEL ÎN BUCUREȘTI. 110 ANI DE LA NAȘTERE
RUDOLF FRANKEL IN BUCHAREST. 110 YEARS FROM BIRTH
Author(s): Maria Boștenaru DanSubject(s): Architecture, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Editura Universitară “Ion Mincu”
Keywords: Rudolf Frankel; Bucharest; interwar architecture; metallic structure; German modernism; urban path; archive collection;
Summary/Abstract: In this contribution we intend to present a recently started research project of the Architectural and Urban Studies Center, the steps already taken and future research intentions. The project aims to track compliance with in international, European and beyond, circuit of the interwar Bucharest architecture by architect Rudolf Frankel, who immigrated from Germany at that time in Bucharest and built 11 buildings in Bucharest from 1933 to 1936 and then in the United Kingdom and the United States. Along with architects like Haralamb Georgescu, he is thus one of which, after being built in Romania, transferred the European style transferred to the United States. In 2011 we’ve celebrated 110 years from his birth.
Journal: Argument
- Issue Year: 2012
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 325-336
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English, Romanian