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SPACES FOR INTERPRETATION OF HERITAGE IN THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF ROMANIAN ARCHITECT IOANA GRIGORESCU
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Among the restoration works in Northeast Romania, one can distinguish architect Ioana Grigorescu (1914 ? 2006). She was employed at Department for Historical Monuments and she designed inside existing buildings, spaces dedicated for the museum purposes as interpretation centers. Her work team used experience acquired during previous exhibitions spaces where the expressiveness of folk architecture forms where implemented. This creative architect conducted the restoration works of 17th and 18th century buildings, among them, the most well-known can be seen at: Putna, Sucevi?a, Vorone?, Dragomirna, Secu, Slatina and Dealu. There she let her strong artistic skills thus the spaces designed for exhibition become themselves admired exhibit object. In this way she achieved a consonance between the exposures and exposed of medieval patrimony obtaining the spiritual and cultural continuity of that places. In each quoted cases, the architect Ioana Grigorescu found clever solutions for difficulties raised by accommodation of museum space into monasteries? restored functions thus these peculiarities collections would become more then pioneers museums and they could be appreciated as museums spaces with interpretation specificity.
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The PhD thesis - The restoration of architectural patrimony from Northeast Romania (Moldova). Contribution of architect Ioana Grigorescu – defended by architect Victor Dan Kisilewicz in 2010 at Wallachia University pointed out historical and political context, technical and aesthetical qualities of unknown projects of Ioana Grigorescu. Recently was published the monographic volume Ioana Grigorescu the sincerity way/ Ioana Grigorescu calea sincerității, Revista Arhitectura, Romania, 2018
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