Anca Petrescu
Mira Anca Victoria Mărculeţ Petrescu (born March 20, 1949 in Sighișoara ; † October 30, 2013 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian architect and politician . Among other things, she designed the Parliament Palace in Bucharest.
Petrescu was the daughter of a doctor. In 1973 she completed her architecture studies at the University of Architecture and Urban Planning Ion Mincu in Bucharest and devoted her diploma to the "urbanization of wasteland". As a completely unknown person at the time, she won the architectural competition in 1980 for the “House of the People”, later the Parliament Palace , a monument to the power of the dictatorial ruling Nicolae Ceaușescu . The 15 meter high Arsenal Hill in the otherwise rather flat Bucharest was chosen as the location . When construction began in 1983, she took on responsibility for up to 20,000 workers. Thousands of people had to be relocated and a large part of the old town demolished for the building of the palace and the main thoroughfare in front of it. There were considerable costs involved in the construction, which were borne by the treasury of the impoverished country. One requirement was that all materials in the palace had to come from Romania.
With the death of Ceaușescu, construction was suspended for several years and a solution was sought for the palace. Meanwhile, Petrescu designed resorts for Club Med in Florida and the Bahamas . From 1993 she was commissioned with the completion of the palace. In 2004 Petrescu went into politics himself. She ran for the nationalist Partidul România Mare in the Mehedinți district and was a member of the Romanian parliament until 2008.
Petrescu was married and had two children. On August 5, 2013, she was in a serious car accident near Izvin . Petrescu fell into a coma in September, from which she never woke, and died of complications a month later, on October 30, 2013, in the Spitalul Clinic de Urgențǎ Floreasca in Bucharest. For the funeral, she was in her palace laid out .
Web links
- Mira Anca Victoria MĂRCULEȚ PETRESCU Sinteza activității parlamentare în legislatura 2004-2008 (Romanian)
- Portrait of Anca Petrescu at welt.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anca Petrescu, ARHITECTA Casei Poporului, a murit , accessed on November 1, 2013 (Romanian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Petrescu, Anca |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Petrescu, Mira Anca Victoria Mărculeţ (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian architect and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sighișoara |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 30, 2013 |
| Place of death | Bucharest |