Cezar Lăzărescu (October 3, 1923 – November 27, 1986) was a Romanian architect and

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. Starting in the years after his graduation in 1952 and until after the

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, he conceived a significant number of buildings and

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in Romania and abroad.

Biography

His father, Alexandru Lăzărescu, was an

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, often on duty far from

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; he was killed in action in December 1942 at the

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. His mother, Sophia Lăzărescu Georgescu, was a housewife. Having attended an art school herself, she also taught him how to

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and

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1930–1956 : School years and first works

After attending a small public school, where the short illustrated

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books he wrote brought him the admiration of his teachers and classmates, he was admitted to the Gheorghe Lazăr National College, one of the best high schools in

. Inspired by the exciting environment and the many extracurricular activities, he performed very well in school. He contributed to several

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s organised by his high school and in 1942 opened his own exhibition at the Athenaeum, a prestigious venue. Lăzărescu studied at the University of Architecture in Bucharest, graduating in 1948. His college years were over the background of

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and the

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, during which he and his mother Sophia had to struggle to make ends meet. Nevertheless, he had remarkable academic achievements and was also involved in numerous extracurricular professional and social activities. In the early 1950s he was drafted to the

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works, where he was put in charge of a team of young architects who were commissioned to design workers' lodgings close to

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, near the seaside. He worked next on healthcare facilities and

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s in North and South Eforie, on the shores of

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, and in

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. Socialist realism, the mandatory architectural style for any public building of this period, led to the production of cheap-looking housing projects, decorated in a pompous faux-classical way that was meant to put on display the "luxurious life" of the working class. This

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(of which the

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and its clones such as the " Casa Scînteii" in Bucharest were prime examples) were mandated by law in all countries within the

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. Any public building or dwelling was required to be done in this style. CezarLazarescu-Mamaia-1960

1957–1961: Development of the Black Sea coast

The paid vacation time introduced by the "workers' union" gave rise to a pressing need to create, in just a few months' time, an impressive number of beds in tourist residences on the

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coast. A local Party leader asked the team led by Lăzărescu to build a hotel complex for the "worker's union" in North Eforie by the beginning of the summer. Faced with an apparently unsolvable problem (building over one thousand beds on an insufficient budget and within an unreasonably short time), with little "political oversight" (since the actual political battles are fought far away in

), Lăzărescu created, with his team, a vast building complex in a style reminiscent of American architecture, very far from the socialist realism required by law. An investigation followed, with the looming threat of a prison sentence. Along with the local Party leader, Lăzărescu was summoned to the office of the First Secretary of the

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. To Lăzărescu's surprise, Gheorghiu-Dej congratulated him, telling him how pleased he was with the result. Subsequently, Gheorghiu-Dej appointed Lăzărescu to lead the development of the Romanian Black Sea coast. This was to become the main building effort that would put an end to socialist realism. In the following period, Lăzărescu developed the Southern coast in the areas of Eforie,

, and

(tourist residences and health facilities including

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), and the Northern seaside in the area of

Mamaia Mamaia () is a resort on the Romanian Black Sea shore and a district of Constanța. Considered to be Romania's most popular resort, Mamaia is situated immediately north-east of Constanța's city center. It has almost no full-time residents, being ...

(only tourist residences and entertainment). Sewage facilities, roads, and energy distribution networks in these areas were rudimentary at best, so the team needed to rebuild everything from scratch. CezarLazarescu-LAC2-1964

The team led by Lăzărescu comprised many talented architects who would later become well known, such as A. Borgovan, V. Ghiorghiu, G. Cristea, D. Ghiorghiu, A. Coveianu, L. Popovici, T. Adam, V. Petrea, Stopler, and many others. Held together by the magnitude of the challenge and the largely shared vision of a

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, the team created a number of remarkable buildings. Many of these have maintained their modern, almost minimalistic character even today, due to the purity of their shapes and the fluidity of the architectural expression. Examples include the "Perla Mării" restaurant, the vacation camps located between North and South Eforie, the "Melody" bar and casino, the Villa Marina, and others). The technical approach is as daring as the aesthetic one: Mamaia was built on a very low stretch of sand between the lake and the sea, which required building an innovative sewage system.

1961–1965: Luxury villas

At the same time as the development of the Black Sea coast, Lăzărescu was put in charge of building luxury villas for the government, initially on the seaside, in North Eforie and Mamaia, later in Bucharest and in other parts of the country. These luxury villas were built with materials supplied by French and Italian companies such as Perrier-Rolin, Zilli, and Barovier & Toso in

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. Along with the design of the

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, these were some of the few occasions on which Lăzărescu worked with his wife, Ileana Lăzărescu (who was also an architect), on interior decoration. On the opposite end of the spectrum from the Socialist realism that represented Soviet domination, the influence of American architects

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and

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can be felt in a number of buildings Lăzărescu designed in

, such as in the "Lake 1" and "Lake 2" villas. Additional style elements of these buildings stem from the commissioned requirements, the environment of the buildings, the influence of Romanian monastic architecture,

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, and Swiss architecture. Several high-ranking Party officials commissioned Lăzărescu to build villas, and he fulfilled all of these requests enthusiastically except for one: the villa of Nicolae and

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, a request he turned down due to a feeling of aesthetic incompatibility with his patrons. Gheorghiu-Dej treated him as a family member. When other Party officials objected that Lăzărescu's responsibilities were incompatible with the fact that he was not a member of the Communist Party (something plainly illegal in his position at that time), he answered: "Let him do his work. If he wants to, he'll do politics later." However, Lăzărescu never wanted to do politics.

1965–1977: Beginning of the Ceaușescu period and significant buildings

Felled by aggressive lung cancer, Gheorghiu-Dej died in March 1965. At the time, Lăzărescu was traveling in France to place orders for building materials. He learned of the ascent to power of

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and, despite warnings from friends in France, returned to

. Arriving home, he was viewed as an

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for having wasted the country's money on luxury dwellings and was threatened with legal action. Like others who had been close to Gheorghiu-Dej, he was blacklisted by Ceaușescu, who had not yet digested Lăzărescu's refusal to build his villa. In 1968 he was asked to submit a proposal to a contest for the

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Airport, after Ceaușescu dismissed the initial submissions from the other competitors. Lăzărescu won the contest and built the airport. CezarLazarescu-OMNIA-1967

Following this, he built numerous other significant buildings in Romania, including the Palace of Sports in Bucharest, the "Omnia" conference venue next to the Communist Party headquarters in Bucharest, a reception hall for the French embassy in Bucharest, and abroad, the Romanian embassy in

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and the Parliament building in

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. He was appointed rector of the

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in 1970 (for two consecutive terms) and a year later President of the Romanian Architects' Union. CezarLazarescu-Khartoum-1977

The works he completed are significant, but his refusal was heard: other architects designed the private lodgings of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu. Lăzărescu kept an official tone in his relationship with the Ceaușescus. They respected his professionalism and he paid them the respect due patrons. In 1971 he was awarded the Order of the Star of the Romanian Socialist Republic, 2nd class.

1977–1982: Restructuring of Bucharest by Ceaușescu and the National Theatre

The relationship with Ceaușescu started deteriorating after the

. Ceaușescu dug up some city restructuring plans that had been ordered by

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around 1940. He made them his own, and envisioned a restructuring program in the style of

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, with a new downtown comprising housing,

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, an opera, a museum, a hotel, and a

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. Studies were drafted by several architectural teams. Ceaușescu asked Lăzărescu to build the new headquarters of the

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and of the Romanian government, to match the function of the current buildings. Ceaușescu relentlessly, repeatedly asked for changes to the plans, and wanted to reduce the number of social and cultural buildings—in the end, only wanting the policial center, a ministry, and some housing. All the submissions to the contest stuck to these requirements, save for the one by the "youth team" led by the architect

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, who proposed a pyramid-shaped building reminiscent of the

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, without a clearly defined program. After Lăzărescu refused for a second time to create a similar proposal (he argued that he was unable to design a building just for the sake of its image, but without a program), he was removed from the contest. Lăzărescu was appointed to lead the remodelling of the National Theatre, a building that had been erected during the period 1964–1973 by the architects , Romeo Belea, and Nicolae Cucu. Lăzărescu's appointment to this project was a punishment for him having refused to overbid on the

, Ceaușescu being well-aware of the tensions he was causing between fellow architects. Towards the second half of the work, Lăzărescu was no longer invited to join Ceaușescu's visits to the building site, the latter's requests for changes being passed on by his counsellors. This was the period during which Ceaușescu's circle of counselors surrounded the presidential family, in order to distort information according to its interests, and eventually to suppress them entirely.

1982–1986: Construction of the National Library (unfinished)

The last project that Lăzărescu was appointed to was the construction of the

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, a building that was left unfinished at the time he died on November 27, 1986, after lying in a coma for a month.

Works

Architecture

* 1949 : Administrative headquarters for the Hunedoara steel works * 1949 : Lodging complex for steelworkers in

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* 1950 : Technical high school, 24 classrooms and workshops in

* 1951 : Four subsidised housing buildings for workers at Electroputere in

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* 1951 : Remodelling of the headquarters of the State Planning Council * 1951 : Subsidised housing comprising 86 apartments in Medgidia * 1951 : Remodelling of the headquarters of the Romanian Composers' Union in

* 1952 : Subsidised housing comprising 140 apartments in Medgidia * 1952 : Lodging complex for workers in

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* 1954 : Main building for the Dinamo Bucharest sports club * 1955 : Army buildings in

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* 1956 : Buildings for the Ministry of the Interior in

* 1957 :

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building complex in South Eforie * 1957 : Restaurant planning of the coast strip at North Eforie * 1957 : Hotel with 200 beds in North Eforie * 1957 : 8 villas in South Eforie * 1957 : Hotel "Albatross" and "Mamaia" restaurant * 1957 : Vacation camp for 200 children in North Eforie * 1958 : 3 villas in

* 1958 : Vacation camp for 600 children in South Eforie * 1958 : Seaside bar and restaurant in North Eforie * 1958 : 9 government villas in North Eforie * 1958 : Hotels (1,600 beds) and restaurants in North Eforie * 1958 : Hotels (1,200 beds), shops and restaurants in

* 1958 : 3 presidential villas in North Eforie * 1959 : 3 medical homes with 600 beds, restaurant and club in Mangalia * 1959 : Hotels (2,000 beds), shops, movie theatre and restaurants in North Eforie * 1959 :

building complex on

* 1959 : Sanatorium and 500-bed clinic in

* 1959 : Vacation camp in

* 1959 : Headquarters of the People's Council of the city of Mangalia * 1959 : Sanatorium for children suffering for tuberculosis (600 beds) in Mangalia * 1960 : 21 hotels (10,000 beds) and 8 restaurants, shops, bars and clubs in

* 1960 : Staff housing in North Eforie * 1961 : Building for the staff of the government villas in North Eforie * 1962 : Presidential villa for foreign dignitaries "Lake 1" in

Floreasca Floreasca () is a district in Bucharest, Romania, in Sector 2 (Bucharest), Sector 2. Its name comes from Lake Floreasca, which is situated in the north of the neighborhood. The Floreasca Hospital is also situated in the neighborhood, in its so ...

district of Bucharest * 1963 : 5 government villas with private movie theaters and swimming pools in Bucharest * 1964 : Presidential villa with private movie theater and swimming pool in the Floreasca district of Bucharest * 1964 : Presidential villa with private movie theater in Timișul de Jos * 1965 : Presidential villa for foreign dignitaries in Snagov * 1965 : Villa for dignitaries of the

in Snagov * 1965 : Hotel (50 beds) for dignitaries of the

in Snagov * 1965 : Government villa in

* 1966 : Hotel Europe in North Eforie * 1966 : Presidential villa "Marina" in

* 1967 : Reception and formal dining hall in North Mangalia * 1967 : "Omnia" conference hall, an addition to the

headquarters in

* 1969 : Hotel (50 beds) and restaurant in

Pitești Pitești () is a city in Romania, located on the river Argeș (river), Argeș. The capital and largest city of Argeș County, it is an important commercial and industrial center, as well as the home of two universities. Pitești is situated in th ...

* 1969 : Administrative and political headquarters in

Focșani Focșani (; ) is the capital city of Vrancea County in Romania on the banks the river Milcov, in the historical region of Moldavia. , it has a population of 66,719. Geography Focșani lies at the foot of the Curvature Carpathians, at a point of ...

* 1969 : Government train remodelling, 24 cars * 1969 : Government

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, remodelling and decoration * 1970 : Cultural hall (800 seats) in

* 1970 :

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discussing the history of the Henri Coandă International Airport. * 1970 : Sports center (12,000 seats) in

* 1970 : Buildings for the National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering in

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* 1971 : Extension of the

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* 1975 : Buildings in

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* 1976 : President's palace in

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(draft) * 1977 : Romanian embassy in

* 1977 : Sudanese parliament building in

* 1977 : Presidential palace in

(draft) * 1979 : Chinese embassy building in Bucharest * 1979 : Conference hall for the French embassy in Bucharest * 1980 : TV tower in Bucharest (draft) * 1982 : Remodelling of the National Theatre in Bucharest * 1984 : Construction of the

in Bucharest (unfinished)

Urban planning

* 1952 : Urban planning for the town of

* 1952 : Urban planning for the town of Poarta Albă * 1952 : Urban planning for the town of

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* 1954 : Urban planning for the town of

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* 1957 : Urban planning for the

coast * 1958 : Urban planning for the town of Vasile Roaită ( South Eforie) * 1958 : Urban planning for the town of North Eforie * 1967 : Urban planning for the city of

* 1969 : Campus of the National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering in

* 1977 : Urban planning for the town of

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Publications

* ''The architect's book'' Volume 1, Editura Tehnică București, 1954 (collaboration). * ''Urban planning: conception and implementation, regulations and principles'', Editura Tehnică București, 1956. * ''Contemporary challenges with building hotels in our country'', PhD thesis. * ''Raw concrete'', Editura Tehnică București, 1969. * ''Hotel buildings'', Editura Tehnică București, 1971. * ''Architecting modern tourism buildings in Romania'', Editura Meridiane, 1972. * ''Romanian architecture in pictures'', Editura Meridiane, 1973. * ''Contemporary architecture in Romania'', Editura Meridiane, 1973. * ''City planning in Romania'', Editura Tehnică București, 1977. * ''The architecture and life of cities'', Editura Tehnică București, 1986 read online.

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lazarescu, Cezar 1923 births 1986 deaths Architects from Bucharest 20th-century Romanian architects Gheorghe Lazăr National College (Bucharest) alumni Rectors of universities in Romania Recipients of the Order of the Star of the Romanian Socialist Republic