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Anca Petrescu

1949 - 2013

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anca Petrescu has received more than 121,004 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Anca Petrescu is the 329th most popular architect (up from 348th in 2019), the 256th most popular biography from Romania (up from 272nd in 2019) and the most popular Romanian Architect.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Anca Petrescu ranks 329 out of 518. Before her are Michael Graves, Marcello Piacentini, Gordon Bunshaft, Louis Visconti, Heinrich Tessenow, and José Benito de Churriguera. After her are Władysław Horodecki, Imre Makovecz, Willem Marinus Dudok, Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, Benedetto Antelami, and Henri Dupuy de Lôme.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Anca Petrescu ranks 284. Before her are James Michael Harvey, George Harris, Francisco Maturana, Würzel, Nana Alexandria, and Guillaume Faye. After her are Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Ali Akbar Salehi, Zé Mário, Brooke Adams, Mohammed bin Hammam, and Patti LuPone. Among people deceased in 2013, Anca Petrescu ranks 225. Before her are Eileen Brennan, Jetty Paerl, Ružica Sokić, Mirko Kovač, Donald Byrd, and Enzo Jannacci. After her are George Duke, Henri Alleg, Barry Jackson, August Schellenberg, Emile Griffith, and Norma Bengell.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Anca Petrescu ranks 256 out of 844. Before her are Franz Rohr von Denta (1854), Nicolae Bălcescu (1819), Ágnes Esterházy (1891), György Klapka (1820), Inna (1986), and Alexandru G. Golescu (1819). After her are Constantin von Economo (1876), Dimitrie Sturdza (1833), Kadriye Nurmambet (1933), Miklós Bánffy (1873), Aaron Aaronsohn (1876), and Dan Petrescu (1967).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Romania

Among architects born in Romania, Anca Petrescu ranks 1. 

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