In the history of building, Virginia Andreescu Haret is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Virginia Andreescu Haret as Romanian architect.
Virginia Andreescu Haret was born at Bucharest in 1894. Her recorded nationality is Romania.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
She is recorded as architect.
Among her best-known works are Gheorghe Șincai National College, Bucharest and Cantemir Vodă National College. 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.
Virginia Andreescu Haret died in 1962, aged 68. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Gheorghe Șincai National College, Bucharest
- Notable work: Cantemir Vodă National College
