The Most Famous
ARCHITECTS from Romania
This page contains a list of the greatest Romanian Architects. The pantheon dataset contains 518 Architects, 2 of which were born in Romania. This makes Romania the birth place of the 32nd most number of Architects behind Slovenia, and Israel.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Romanian Architects of all time. This list of famous Romanian Architects is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Anca Petrescu (1949 - 2013)
With an HPI of 51.52, Anca Petrescu is the most famous Romanian Architect. Her biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Mira Anca Victoria Mărculeț Petrescu (20 March 1949, Sighișoara – 30 October 2013, Bucharest) was a Romanian architect and politician. Born in Sighișoara, Romania, Petrescu graduated from the Ion Mincu Institute of Architecture in Bucharest in 1973. In 1986, on the orders of Romanian leader Nicolae Ceaușescu, Petrescu became chief architect of the colossal Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, a thirteen-year megaproject constructing the world's second-largest civilian administrative building after the Pentagon. During the 1970s and 1980s, she was involved in many of Bucharest's redevelopment projects, which led to the relocation of thousands of residents in order to demolish their old, poor neighborhoods, replacing them with crowded communist tower blocks. Petrescu served as a member of Parliament for the Greater Romania Party (PRM) between 2004 and 2008. On 5 August 2013, Petrescu was involved in a major car accident. A month later, she fell into a coma from which she never recovered, dying from complications on 30 October 2013, aged 64.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Romanian architects born between 1949 and 1949. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Romanian architects include Anca Petrescu.
