L’ex-Accademia “Stefan Gheorghiu” a Bucarest. Una Composizione di Figure e Masse

The paper aims to describe, through text and drawings, the “Stefan Gheorghiu” Academy in Romania. The building is located within the large campus of the Polytechnic University of Bucharest and stands out for its quality in relation to the structure of the campus. The Academy represented the first application in Romania of the Brutalist code: the unprecedented plastic definition manages to establish morphological relationship with the context with which it is confronted. A large dimensional architecture that, for its hypotactic composition and its strong volumetric accentuation, defines a new ‘order’ able to put together the existing and the new, and, at the same time, to reflect on the meaning of the collective building.