Black Sea Utopia 1955-1989. Architectural Drama in Five Acts
guided tour in English
For more than three decades, Romania’s Black Sea coast became a unique place of imagination and architectural experimentation. From the 1950s through the 1980s, this stretch of shoreline was transformed into a bold modernist project – a kind of open-air architectural laboratory shaped by dreams of a better society. On the exhibition presented in Museum of Architecture we’ve chosen to present the story of this coastline like a play, told in acts: from its daring beginnings, through the experimental highs of the 1960s and ’70s, to the gradual changes that began to challenge the original vision.
The guided tour, conducted by the romanian architect Maria Duda, will focus on retelling architecture: who and why conceived the seaside project? What was the creative path of planning and building? And how was the spectacular coastal development to fit into the historical, social and cultural context of Romanian architecture?
For the guided tour we invite you on Saturday, July 12 at 12 PM. Free entry, no need to sign up. The tour will be conducted in English.
BIO
Maria Duda is an architect. She graduated of the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, in 2007 she holds a PhD in Architecture, on public spaces of Bucharest. Since 2009 she has been independently researching, documenting, teaching and improving the use of public spaces. In 2016 she co-founded BAZA. Deschidem orașul – a cultural and educational NGO dedicated to connecting young professionals of Bucharest, conducting urban research and promoting Little Improvements through architectural and artistic interventions, workshops, events, conferences, publishing. She runs her own architectural studio.