Cosmic Multicultural Bucharest in the Pandemic (291):
About Mincu’s Neo-Romanian Style (1)
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (astro-photo-poem-essay) and Florin Alexandru Stancu (design)
November 11, 2020…
November 13, 2020…
November 15, 2020…
I was finally able to catch the sunrise over my city.
That day I remembered Ion Mincu, the creator of the Neo-Romanian style in architecture, so rich in floral-solar symbolism, and went to Piata Gemenii (Twin Brothers Square), named after the legendary founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus, who in Romanian astromythology were the stars Castor and Pollux.
There I saw two buildings in this style, the Ion Cantacuzino Hospital (named after a great organizer of Romanian medicine) and a medical institute (named after the co-discoverer of insulin, Nicolae Paulescu).
Before them, Ion Mincu created in 1886
the first Neo-Romanian style house
(next to which the hospital was built),
as the small coronation of a beautiful idea.
And, above them,
I saw the great coronation:
the real Sun
watching over all that are on
a floral planet!
#poetry