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Romanian Revival architecture (a.k.a. Romanian National Style, Neo-Romanian, or Neo-Brâncovenesc; Romanian: stilul național român, arhitectura neoromânească, neobrâncovenească) is an architectural style that has appeared in the late 19th century in Romanian Art Nouveau, [4] initially being the result of the attempts of finding a specific Romanian architectural style.
The porch (prispă) appears quite often in the plan of popular Romanian dwellings. Because of the surrounding forests, peasant architecture develops mainly in wood. Primarily oak and fir, rarely beech and birch, were the main building materials, many times the only ones, which Romanian peasants used for building dwellings.
The Lahovari House (Romanian: Casa Lahovari) is a house in the sector 2 of Bucharest, built by Ion Mincu between 1884 and 1886, at the request of Iacob Lahovary (1846–1907), general and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of War and Chief of the General Staff.
The Ștefania Palace (Romanian: Palatul Ștefania), formerly known as Totisz Palace and popularly referred to as the House with Monkeys, [1] is a landmark building in the Fabric district of Timișoara, a city in western Romania. The palace occupies the entire northern frontage of the block bordered by Stephen the Great Street, 3 August 1919 ...
A burdei or bordei (Romanian: bordei, Ukrainian: бурдей) [1] is a type of pit-house or half-dugout shelter, somewhat between a sod house and a log cabin. This style is native to the Carpathian Mountains and forest steppes of Eastern Europe. In Romania, it is a traditional "rustic" house made of clay and built below the earth's surface.
Painting by Carol Szathmari of Carol I sitting at his desk. Cotroceni Hill was also the place of residence of many of Romania's rulers for a time until 1883, when King Carol I of Romania received the residences and ordered them demolished with plans to build a much larger edifice in their stead which would serve to house the future heirs to his throne.
The location plans were executed by the writer, playwright, director Victor Ion Popa and set designer Henri H. Stahl. The necessary financial funds were provided by the Royal Cultural Foundation and in the presence of King Carol II of Romania the museum was inaugurated on 10 May 1936. [3]
Sketch of a monumental entry. Extract from Toma T. Socolescu 's sketches notebook.. Toma T. Socolescu marked the face of modern Romanian architecture until the Second World War, both by leaving a substantial legacy, both in terms of remarkable constructions, foundations of a cultural nature, and literature related to Romanian architecture and its evolution.