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Upon winning an open competition in 1982, Anca Petrescu became the architect of the iconic House of the People in Bucharest, a monumental project patronized by Nicolae Ceaușescu.
Working at ISCAS in the 1960s and at the Carpathian Design Institute in the 1970s, Anca Borgovan designed hotels and hospitals in Romania, and the parliament building in Khartoum, Sudan, before emigrating to the US in 1986.
During the 1980s, Doina Marilena Ciocănea was an architect at the Institute for Design and Construction in Agriculture and Food Industry, after 1990 moving to private practice and subsequently to urban planning.
One of the first female architects in Romania, in the 1930s, Maria Cotescu designed modernist buildings for the Romanian Railway Company. During the Cold War, she became a prolific writer on architecture.
Eugenia Greceanu’s career in historic preservation spanned over half a century. Beginning in the 1950s, she restored and studied Romanian churches and monasteries, eventually becoming a professor at the Ion Mincu Architectural Institute.
Grigorescu was an influential specialist in historic preservation, whose work was marked by (sometimes controversial) deeply personal and artistic approach.
One of the first women in Romanian architecture, Virginia Andreescu Haret was educated in Bucharest and Rome and enjoyed a prolific career during the interwar period, designing residential, public, and other buildings.
One of the few female workshop heads at the Carpathian Design Institute, Măldărescu specialized on buildings for healthcare, including the award-winning project of the National Oncological Center Fundeni in Bucharest (1983-1987).
One of the foremost specialists in historic preservation in Romania, Mănciulescu was known for her original approach to preservation and the bold use of modern materials.
Katalin Murádin-Beyer was a Hungarian-Romanian architect, historian of vernacular architecture of Transylvania, and pedagogue at the Technical University of Cluj Napoca.
A prolific Bucharest-based architect and author, Silvia Păun designed healthcare, educational, and other buildings all over Romania and published on different aspects of architectural theory.
Upon winning an open competition in 1982, Anca Petrescu became the architect of the iconic House of the People in Bucharest, a monumental project patronized by Nicolae Ceaușescu.
Ileana Murgescu Tureanu was an architect at the Carpathian Design Institute during the 1980s, subsequently becoming an editor and high-level administrator in the field of architecture.
Beginning her career in regional design institutions, during the 1980s, Ana Uncu worked on design and renovation projects for Romanian factories at the Research Institute for Metallurgy.
Ana Maria Sanda Voiculescu was a practicing preservationist and later a professor and historian, whose work dealt with medieval Romanian architecture and the history of architecture of Bucharest.
Elena Voinescu is best known as the architect of the new building of the Ion Mincu Institute of Architecture in Bucharest–the most important architectural school in Romania.
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