Victor G. Stefănescu - arhitectul catedralei încorănării de la Alba-Iulia
Victor G. Stefănescu - the architect of the Alba-Iulia Cathedral

Summary/Abstract: The present paper draws the attention of interested readers to a remarkable figure of the Romanian culture of the twentieth century, unjustly forgotten, notably by political causes, during the last 50 years of the communist dictatorship: the architect Victor G. Stephănescu .First, the authors present some important dates in the biography of the man who, born on March 14, 1877, as the oldest son of the composer Georges M. Stephănescu, the founder of the Opera in Romania, appropriates the profession architect. He studied specialty in Paris.On his return to the country, after 1901, Victor G. Stephănescu conceived, in Bucharest and throughout the country, works realized in a Neoroumain, authentic way which characterizes almost all his creation.As head architect of the 1906 jubilee exhibition, he is the author of two of the most beautiful buildings in this exhibition - the Royal Pavilion and the Palais des Arts. Among its achievements, alone or in collaboration, we can note the Geological Institute, the Military Circle, the present appearance of the Gare du Nord, the Cotroceni Station - in Bucharest and then the Great Mosque of Constantza, the warehouses of the new port Constantza, the casino and the building of the baths of Mamaia, the Palace of the Queen Mary of Balcic, the Cathedral of the Coronation of Alba-Iulia - in the country.

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