New Europe College
Romania
fellow
Gruia BĂDESCU
2026-2027
Home institution
University of Konstanz
Country of origin (home institution)
Romania
Discipline(s)
Urban and architectural studies
Theme(s)
Cities & States
Fellowship dates
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Biography
2026/2027 Ștefan Odobleja Fellow
PhD in Architecture, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK
Title of the thesis: "Architecture, 'coming to terms with the past' and the 'world in common': Postwar urban reconstruction in Belgrade and Sarajevo" (2019)
Research Project
Haussmann’s Ghost? Roads, Destruction, and Modernity in Three Aspiring Parises: Bucharest, Beirut, Buenos Aires
This project investigates how Bucharest, Buenos Aires, and Beirut, described as “Parises” of their region, reshaped themselves over a century of political upheavals, by focusing on the construction of boulevards as an expression of modernity. Using an interdisciplinary approach based on archival records, press representations, interviews, and architectural hermeneutics, the project examines how roads embodied different projects of modernity in the long shadow of an initial Parisian makeover.
Research Interests:
architecture, cities