Edited, translated from the French, annotated, with an introduction and index by Dan S. Teodorovici in consultation with Deborah Howard; with a foreword by Deborah Howard.

 

As one of the most thoughtful modernist architects of his generation, Georges Matei Cantacuzino (1899-1960) certainly deserves to be better known. He was the consummate European, a Romanian aristocrat who lived much of his early life in Vienna and Paris, and fraternised with the intellectual elite of his time. Sadly, however, his growing reputation was later dampened by the events of the Second World War and the consequent division of Europe, which separated Romanian culture from its cosmopolitan pre-war horizons. [...]