THE POETICS OF SPACE

From Timișoara in the final decades of communism to the changing city that emerged after 1989, architect Vlad Gaivoronschi journeys through several versions of Romania. Nearly fifty years of architecture come together in drawings, collective housing developments, single-family homes, public buildings, and fragments of the urban fabric, but above all, in a particular way of reading and understanding places.

Gaivoronschi describes architecture as a “device for observing and reinterpreting the city”, but also as a tool that “makes light sing”. In his projects, memory, proportion, materiality, and space enter into a dialogue that moves naturally from drawing to construction site, and from individual building to city.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with Grațian Gâldău, Vlad Gaivoronschi, and Șerban Sturdza.