Tache Ionescu Boulevard (today: Magheru Boulevard), Bucharest, completed in the1930s. In the foreground, the ARO Building by Horia Creanga, 1929-1931
Photograph: Union of Romanian Architects

EAHN Study Tour to Romania in July 2008

Join the EAHN on a five-day tour to Bucharest and Bucovina from 1 to 7 July 2008. The tour will begin with three days in Bucharest, where there will be an opportunity to meet with colleagues from the University of Architecture. We will examine Bucharest’s urban development from the Middle Ages through the nineteenth century and then focus on the various forms of architecture in the twentieth century: the national style, modernism, monumental neoclassicism, and the socialist city. We will also visit the open-air Village Museum, which features over fifty examples of rural architecture, before leaving for Suceava. From there we will travel by bus to view some of the painted churches of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, including Voronet, Humor, Moldovita, and Dragomirna, all of which are unesco monuments. Their interior and exterior frescoes reveal a complex and fascinating iconography. The tour ends in Bucharest.

As with all tours organized by the EAHN, every attempt will be made to keep the costs of the tour low and to encourage interchange with local experts. Estimated cost without meals or travel to Bucharest is € 480. To express interest in participating in the tour or for more information, please contact Carmen Popescu (crmv@clicknet.ro) before April 15.