In the history of building, Toma T. Socolescu is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Toma T. Socolescu as architect (1883–1960).
Toma T. Socolescu was born at Ploiești in 1883. His recorded nationality is Romania. He trained at Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urban Planning.
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, politician and painter.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
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.
Toma T. Socolescu died in 1960, aged 77. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urban Planning
