some more pictures of the city i live in, especially of an area with buildings from the 18th century. as i said before, the area is in retoration (though i won't tell you since when). i was always fascinated by these buildings and their atmosphere. you might notice there is half of a boat on the... View full entry

The most beautiful buildings in timisoara, the town I live in, come from 2 periods: either the 17-18th century (built by the austrians), or the first half of the 20th century. The constructions from the first period, that are not around the town center are mostly in ruin. Most people that live in... View full entry

just had a nice dinner the other day with a friend from tunis and another one from peru ( bith of them cooked, i ate!). so we started debateing about the countries we're from, people, habbits. i promised jam-arch i'll write about traveling here. Well, i suppose you have the same chances of getting... View full entry

I've been thinking lately (although I promised myself to stop doing it), it sucks to be born in such a country as Ro.Til few years ago I had no problem with it. Of course, everytime I met foreign people they asked a lot of questions, but in the end we got along, it didn't matter where we were... View full entry

Another deadline. At restoration. I've studied the catholic cathedral from timisoara, placed in the most popular urban square. They started it's restoration 1 year ago, but still have a lot to do. Unless my connection breakes down once again, you might see some pictures. this is a satelit picture... View full entry

Sabotage! It the second time when I try to upload pictures to my blog and my internet connection breakes down. I must say this is a major european provider! Hmmmmmmmmmm”¦ they are definitely after me”¦ if you don't hear from me anytime soon, they got me! On Monday and... View full entry

as i tried to upload some pics for the previous blog, my internet connection broke down. great! i hope it will work this time! this was how i saw it. i stopped somewhere after the rock and before the trees. though, as i look at this drawing, i'm sure i hit my head. Here are some pictures from the... View full entry

I just had one of those 'you don't mess with the mountain' moments. I spent the last three days in a nice resort, weather was fine, everything ok.Only on my last day (actually last ride) I had a traumatic experience. The slope was frozen (it felt more like ice then snow, you couldn't break it even... View full entry

this semester we have to make mixed facilities in an arboretum. the park was founded around 1900 and had some colaborations with the arnold arboretum (biggest in the world). it used to have a mix of local species with exotic ones. Today it is in a rather bad shape, as it is 15km outside the town... View full entry

i haven't told u anything yet about my new project as i had no pictures. today i'll go on the site and soon i'll tell you more. until then i give you, exclusively (!), some pictures from my home studio (to say so ). i'm living with a graphic/ web designer. as u can see i was on archinect. that is... View full entry

the first year of arch passed without any scars. After the second school year i coloured my hair red. After the third year i pierced my tongue and belly. At home. By a teenager. Now i'm thinking about a tattoe. Something has to happen. But will this feeling ever stop? What will i do in a few... View full entry

You might have heard about the 'People's House' built by former dictator Ceausescu. I'll give you a short description. The Guinness Book of Records lists it as the worlds second largest building (330,000 square meters), after the Pentagon. In total cubic content (2.550 million cubic meters) it... View full entry

i promised some pictures from the one day project on last friday. As it didn't matter to me ( u have to make 2 out of 4, i already have 2) and some other students, we decided to do a little something together, just for fun. catched in the atmosphere, we enjoyed staying with our hard working... View full entry

Last night I watched ‘Huff' on HBO. One of the characters (Teddy) has some psychiatric problems and lives in an asylum. On one day he and his disturbed colleagues were taken on a bus tour, with normal people, in order to get used to the... View full entry

on my last blog i promised a picture with the last study on urbanism. unfortunately i wasn't able to upload it out of technical reasons. so here it is. the pink and the blue area are residential buildings, the green are is a supermarket Billa, the yellow area is with residential houses... View full entry

friday was the last day of scool. now i have a 1 week vacation. Of course, it had to end with another study, how else. Our teacher happened to be the town chief architect and i suppose all he really wanted was a real updated database. We tricked him and also made some proposals. We analized an... View full entry

'til friday we have to analyse an urban site. the teacher in charge is also the town chief architect, and he wants as to make a database and some proposals to solve the neighboorhood's problems. But for now i will show you the analyse we made at the begining of the last semester. The site is near... View full entry

Twice during one semester we have a so-called ‘sketch'. I have no idea if you have something like it in your schools. At morning you get the requirements and the deadline is at 21 o'clock , the very same day. The projects vary from small constructions... View full entry

i don't know how it is in your countries, but here each tv channel has it's own 'architecture' show. architecture isn't quite the right word but, hey, that's how they call themselfs. so for example when i am at home my father asks me to watch with him this shows, which i have to do. the worst... View full entry

last semester we had to study an urban site (actually just an island). 60% of the facades towards the street were buildings from the begining of the last century (built by austrians). on the interior there is a labirinth of parasite-buildings. today the site is in a bad shape, but there still is a... View full entry

this was inspired by savanna's post 'titles and aliances'. i usually avoid thinking in those terms, about career path and future, as i get headaches and depression's. lately i turned down 3 job-offers. and they looked pretty ok, apparently, as most of my collegues would take them in a second. one... View full entry

i'll try to upload some pictures of my school. in case it doesn't work, i'll try again. the school looks just like after war, it's the end of the semester (the pictures are from last year, now it looks very slightly better) . actually all the 'drawings' on the wall were made during nights of work... View full entry

i suppose everyone knows how it's like when life took over you, like faith has been decided and you can't do anything about it anymore. i have 2 job offers. 2. not brilliant, not that bad neither, i suppose. but i just can't decide. i could use the cash, some new experience wouldn't be bad... only... View full entry

it's great to live in a country of whom people know one thing: dracula lived here. great. u know: dark clouds, heavy rain, grey ambiance, ruins, lots of dogs, upset people, no vegetation, and of course, according to the director's sick mind , some weird 'beings'. i almost forgot blood.bu hu hu hu... View full entry

one exam down, 4 to go. history of romanian arch. u don't get to study that, do you?! well you don't miss a lot. this summer i took a sightseeing tour around romania, and thanks god there still are some pretty interesting things to see. for example the oldest wooden church in the world( XIV... View full entry

well... i just said i have an exams on tuesday ,but... ok, so let me tell you how my last semester was.. i thought a lot about my post here... whether this is in any perspective interesting to you or many don't even consider clickng on 'arch school Romania'. i came to following conclusions: i... View full entry

i'll start by apologizing for my bad english and hope it will improve during this blog. now... let's do this properly. For eveyone who ain't got a clue where romania is (i don't mean to offense, but i've been asked this question quite a lot while meeting people from other countries) this little... View full entry