The Great Inns of Bucharest. Changed shapes, lost images
The Great Inns of Bucharest. Changed shapes, lost images

Summary/Abstract: This study focuses on the great inns of Bucharest. Their volumes, details, the relation with the public space are explored following archive documents, sketches or descriptions made by the contemporaries. The resulted image, without subjective interpretations, completes the atmosphere of a city in which Oriental customs, so well rooted, get the alternative of Western ones. Major changes concerning the function, shape and architectural details are recorded, in an almost desperate attempt of the owners to preserve them along the line of new trends. Although the revitalization of those grand commercial ensembles was aimed at by those interested, toward the end of the 19th century only a few remained. Their disappearance resulted in difficulties to recompose their objective images, so common to the city for centuries.

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