Proiecte de arhitectură și urbanism la Arhivele Statului de la Mănăstirea Mihai Vodă
Projects of Architecture and Town Planning from the State Archives at Mihai Vodă Monastery

Summary/Abstract: The article is based on research of the architectural development of the National Archives of Romania. Although many design plans were proposed by various architects such as Vladimir Blaremberg (1811-1846), Xavier Villacrose (?-1855) and Carl Benesch/Carol Beniș (1822-1896), the archives were moved to Mihai Vodă Monastery. The precincts were restored and enlarged on numerous occasions and a new contest was organized in 1885-1886 for a new complex building. Due to financial and urban planning limitations the project of Italian architect Giulio Magni was left aside and at the beginning of the 20th century new reparations and building extensions were carried out by various Romanian architects: Constantin Băicoianu (1859–1929), Nicolae Gabrielescu (1854-1926), Cristofi Cerchez (1872-1955), and Petre Antonescu (1873-1965). These phases are brought to light on the occasion of the research of the documents thus descovering again the contribution of important architects and recovering important moments of a monument that would be destroyed by Ceaușescu in 1985 (only the church and its belltower were moved).

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