Duiliu Marcu is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Duiliu Marcu as Romanian architect.
Duiliu Marcu was born at Calafat in 1885. His recorded nationality is Romania. He trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as architect.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in Romania shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Duiliu Marcu died in 1966, aged 81. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris
