Toma T. Socolescu (20 July 1883 in Ploiești – 14 October 1960 in Bucharest, Romania) was a Romanian architect. He was one of the influencers of Romanian architecture from the early 20th century through World War II. He devoted his whole life to his region of Prahova and particularly to the city of Ploiești. He will also contribute greatly to the cultural life of his country. He devoted his whole life to the development of Prahova County and, in particular, the city of Ploiești, founding the Nicolae Iorga Library and the Prahova County Art Museum "Ion Ionescu-Quintus", contributing at the same time to the cultural life of Romania. Among the loieștimost important designed constructions are the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist, the Halles Centrales, the Palace of Justice, the Palace of Business Schools, the Bank of Credit Prahova (Creditul Prahovei) and the Scala cinema.
First prize in the contest for the Palace of the Municipality of Bucharest (1925), Honorary citizen of the city of Ploiești, Member of the Order of the Crown of Romania to the rank of officer
Practice
Architecture, urban planning, archeology, university education, culture, politics, journalism
He was mayor of Ploiești between December 1919 and March 1920, and in 1927 he moved to Păulești, a municipality of which he was mayor between 1938 and 1945 and whose infrastructure he developed.
During the Communist period, refusing to join the Communist Party and considered a "class enemy", his family was persecuted by the Securitate, he has been expelled from his house in Păulești and all his properties have been confiscated. He moved to Bucharest, where he died in 1960.
Sketch of a monumental entry. Extract from Toma T. Socolescu's sketches notebook.
Toma T. Socolescu marked the face of modern Romanian architecture until the Second World War, both by leaving a substantial legacy, both in terms of remarkable constructions, foundations of a cultural nature, and literature related to Romanian architecture and its evolution. It is still a benchmark in the world of architecture and art. More than a dozen of his works have been classified as historic monuments.
Education and travelsedit
Son, grandson and nephew of an architect, his career choice was not easy. After a happy and fulfilled childhood, his father suddenly disappeared on November 22, 1897, then his mother, three years later, the same day,[b 1] he became an orphan at the age of 17 and in charge of his four brothers and sisters. Toma T. has a great talent for drawing and devotes his free time to drawing during his last three years of high school. Eager to know, he took advantage of his father's large library and inherited his drawing talent.[b 2] Despite the catastrophic financial situation of the family, the dispersion of his brothers and sisters taken in by the Socolescu uncles and cousins,[b 3] and the unfavorable economic situation for architects at the end of the 19th century in Romania,[b 4] he succeeded in forcing destiny and following his passion for art and architecture, taking advantage of free higher education, in this time.[b 4]
He finished high school in 1901 at the lyceum St Peter and St Paul of Ploiești and then enrolled at the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism, then known as the National School of Architecture. He was a student of Ion Mincu, the leading expert in Romanian architecture at the beginning of the 20th century. In June 1911, he graduated with honors, specializing in civil and religious architecture and Romanian archaeology. He returned to this institution to teach architectural theory from 1929 to 1947.
He began his career as a designer at the Central Post Office in Bucharest in 1904. In 1906 he was hired as a designer by a large workshop of architects dedicated to building the infrastructure of the 'Romanian General Exhibition of 1906'. Carol Park was specially designed for this event by the French landscape architect Édouard Redont. The exhibition ran from 6 June to 23 November 1906 in Bucharest. The event was organized by the Romanian Government in honor of the 40-year reign of Carol I of Romania. This opportunity put him in contact with leading artists and architects of the time and is credited with having a decisive impact on the rest of his career.[who?]
His travels to Vienna, Constantinople and Budapest in 1913, to Italy (15 December 1923 to 20 February 1924, and January 1937) and to France represented significant milestones in his life. In these places he found inspiration for his work in Romania.
World War Iedit
He was drafted into the 47th Infantry Regiment in 1916, where he was assigned to the Bucharest transport regiment and sent to the "Danube Defense Group" (Grupul Apărării Dunarii).[b 5] There, with other architects and engineers, he was responsible for bridge demolition operations during the Moldavia retreat. He built hospitals and sanitation facilities, hoping to combat typhus, which was wreaking havoc on the Romanian army. Around 1917 he joined a battalion of mountain troops. The retreat of the Romanian army to Moldavia gave him the chance to discover the rural and religious artistry of various Romanian regions. Clutching his notebook, he produced many drawings of folk art and traditional architectural styles that would later inspire him. Two reproductions of his watercolors of houses in Chișinău (Bessarabia) were published in 1926.[d 1] In 1941 he wrote an article on the Romanian ancient art of Bessarabia, and illustrated it with his own watercolors.[d 2]
Architectural and urbanistic workedit
Socolescu was one of the leading advocates and a staunch defender of the Romanian national architectural style, also referred to as Neo brâncovenesc or Neo Romanian style. He was inspired particularly by the Brâncovenesc style. He worked to improve Ploiești's appearance and to develop public buildings for all of county of Prahova. His strong interest in archaeology led him to study and preserve many old houses and churches, and to publish essays and surveys on this subject.
Facade sketch. Extract from the Toma T. Socolescu's sketch notebook.
He played a key role in the management of the Society of Romanian Architects,[1] and participated in his hometown's cultural and social life. He served as Mayor from December 1919 to March 1920.
The artistic component of architecture was fundamental to him and he was very critical of architecture that was unrelated to art, especially to traditional Romanian art. He decried a sharp increase in the number of architecture students lacking the necessary artistic talent. In his memoirs, he chastised architects active from the 1920s through the 1940s, who, according to him, neglected architecture's artistic foundations. He also denounced the projects which took only land use into account and noted the lack of hygiene in houses built between 1930 and 1950, while the buildings in France, Austria and Germany of the same period were much more advanced. In his editorials, he wrote against property speculation and the immediate search for profit that led to poor construction and "soulless" buildings.[b 6]
In The Architecture of Ploiești, A Historical Study[2] (1938), Socolescu wrote:
We live in a confusing time, in which it seems that nobody knows what he wants. From this is derived this chaos of so-called modern buildings, resulting in a time when science, engineering calculations and a quasi-superficiality of architectural knowledge have overtaken a sacred beauty that was cultivated over the centuries that have preceded us, standardizing everything and thus creating cold and clumsy works of civilization on the ruins of those of culture, those which have given us the tradition and spirit of this people raised in the cult of beauty.[a 1]
In Ploieștiedit
He served as mayor of Ploiești immediately after World War I, as well as the county's chief architect.[b 7] He had to handle all major supply problems in the city. He was the primary instigator of the expansion of the city's boundaries, to include the refineries located in the periphery that allowed the city to benefit from the tax base they provided. The budget tripled and reached a level that allowed large infrastructure projects. He planned major changes in the city, including the construction of the Central Market Hall of Ploiești,[c 1] and acted as urban planner. Many architectural projects that were not completed during his short term were finished by the mayors that succeeded him.
Throughout his life, he improved town planning and hygiene for the city of Ploiești. From 1932 to 1935, in collaboration with architects Ion Davidescu and S. Vasilescu, he developed a systematic plan[c 2] of the city. This plan[3] gave more weight to green-space, traffic and railway and generally to allow for orderly growth. The plan provides for urban development and optimal population density, allocation for public and cultural institutions, schools and green-spaces. It also details the rules that defined land-use plans. He developed similar plans for the towns of Câmpina and Mizil.[4] These projects were enforced until the Communist takeover in 1945.[citation needed]
In Păuleștiedit
Duqué's manor in Păulești.
He settled into the commune of Păulești in 1927. He was its mayor between February 1938 and January 1945, a term interrupted by the Legionary Movement regime between November 1940 and February 1942. His second term was shortened by the Rădescu government in January 1945.[5] In five and a half years, he built several buildings, bridges and public monuments, including the town hall, the primary school and the public baths. He created landscaped areas for the municipal park, called Parcul cu castani (the park with chestnut. A chestnut tree-lined avenue cut across the park and led to the cemetery. He had hoped that an amusement park and an ornamental pond[c 3] could be built to provide a large relaxing green space (Păulești is located 7 km from Ploiești). The project began around 1930, but was not completed before the Second World War. It was revived under the name of Parc Pădurea Păulești in 1995. After many legal disputes between the city and the construction company, the project was halted and then re-activated in July 2007.[6] Work resumed in 2009.[7] In 2007, in recognition of the benefits provided by the architect, the commune college was renamed Arhitect T T. Socolescu.[8] In May 2011, another ceremony was held in his honour, unveiling a bust in his image that was installed in the school's courtyard.[9]
Cultural and artistic workedit
To support the culture life of his city, he launched initiatives that equipped Prahova County with its first museum and cultural institutions. Supported by Ploiești and Nicolae Iorga, he founded its first history museum, its first public library and its first museum of fine arts.
Regional Museum of Prahovaedit
In 1914, aided by Nicolae Iorga, to appeal for the intervention of Ion Duca, then Minister of Education, he saved an historic house dating from the 18th century from destruction,[b 8] preserving it in its original form: the coppersmith dealer house of Hagi Prodan (Casa Hagi Prodan). In 1919, as County Architect in Chief, he founded a small regional ethnographic and religious art museum[a 2] in that house. It was the city's first museum,[b 7] initially called Muzeul Județului or Muzeul Prahovei.[a 3]
Balcony illustration. Extract from Toma T. Socolescu's sketchbook.
After a public appeal and fundraising campaign,[b 9] he collected art from across the county, with the help of priests and teachers. The museum was stocked with furniture, clothing and icons forgotten in the region's attics. During the period 1940–1944, the museum's inventory was eventually lost or stolen[citation needed] and replaced with other objects collected by Professor Nicolae Simache, assisted by Socolescu.
Known as the Muzeul Hagi Prodan since 1953, the museum was renamed on 18 June 2005: Casa de Târgoveț din Secolul al XVIII-lea – al XIX-lea.[10]
Popular University Nicolae Iorgaedit
As a political and cultural companion of Nicolae Iorga, Socolescu actively participated in Summer courses (Known from 1920 as Universitate Popularã N.Iorga) that Iorga established in 1911 in Vălenii de Munte. In addition to completing the plans of the classrooms,[b 8]Socolescu regularly participated as a speaker along with other professors and prominent figures from Romanian cultural and political life.[b 10]Socolescu was a regular speaker, among other professors and prominent figures of Romanian cultural and political life. The renown and popularity grew to such an extent that the openings of the Summer courses attracted leading politicians and ministers. King Ferdinand of Romania, Prince Carol II of Romania and Princess Elisabeth of Wied attended Iorga's lectures. On 17 August 1938, Maria Tănase sang for the closure.[11]
Popular Library Nicolae Iorgaedit
In 1921 he founded the Biblioteca Populară Nicolae Iorga,[12] originally installed on the municipal baths' right wing.[13] Heading the Management Committee, he expanded the library collection with help from donors.[b 11] In the same place, on the ground floor, he developed an art gallery by collecting Western European artists' reproductions as well as original Romanian oils and watercolors. Inaugurated on 20 March 1921, it originally held 1,250 volumes. By 1937, more than 11.000 books and more than 3,500 publications were available free of charge to its 8,000 registered readers. Socolescu donated over 250 volumes from his collection.[a 4]
Museum of Fine Artsedit
He founded and developed an art gallery by collecting reproductions of Western Europe artists as well as original Romanian oils and watercolors,[a 5] on the ground floor of the same building. For this purpose, he was helped by a group of Ploiești intellectuals including lawyer, art collector and politician Ion Ionescu-Quintus,[b 12][c 4] the historian Dumitru Munteanu-Râmnic, as well as by city mayors including Ștefan Moțoiu, who provided substantial financial support. Created around 1930, within the framework of the Cultural Foundation Nicolae Iorga,[14] the pinacotheca subsequently became the Ploiești Art Museum. It was inaugurated by Socolescu in November 1931[15] The wopening speech is reproduced in extenso in Amintiri.[b 13] It was only in 1965 that the museum would be moved to the current building: the Ghiță Ionescu palace, former County Prefecture. In Arhitectura în Ploești, studiu istoric[a 6] and Monografia orașului Ploești, appear photographs, a list of all the exhibited painters, as well as some remarkable works present in the museum in 1938. The latter was then installed in the old municipal baths.[16] Some oils and watercolors by Toma T. Socolescu, which the latter donated[17] to the museum, still exist, as do some works by the artist Toma Gh. Tomescu,[18] but are currently on display in the museum.
Other cultural activities and foundations in Prahovaedit
Socolescu founded a library and museum in Păulești in the 1930s. The library was looted during the Second World War. It continues to operate and displays a work of lose friend, Romanian painter Toma Gh. Tomescu.[4][19]
He organized and funded training in viticulture and fruit crops for the commune on his own farm, located at Socolescu manor.
Socolescu painted many watercolors that met some success.
He built a house for Tomescu in the latter's hometown of Vălenii de Munte in 1926–1927.[20]Socolescu bought many of Tomescu's works that he later donated to Muzeul Prahovei.
Communist periodedit
He refused to integrate into the Communist-sponsored organization of architects, and was considered as an enemy of the people and was persecuted by the Communist authorities. His property was nationalized in the 1950s. He was not allowed to practice as an architect and was expelled from his Păulești estate on 21 February 1952. He moved in with his son Toma Barbu Socolescu in Bucharest. The Socolescu family was harassed by the Securitate almost until his death in 1960. Left without an income, he worked until the age of 74 at the Institute of Urban Planning and Construction (ISPROR).[21] From 1953, within the framework of Institutul Central pentru sistematizarea orașelor și regiunilor (ICSOR) he was seconded to the Department of Historical Monuments for four years.[b 14] On 12 February 1957, he was forced to retire on a reduced pension.[b 14]Socolescu nevertheless continued to protest projects that he considered to be against his idea of architecture.[22]
Socolescu published many writings.[b 15] He deliberately did not claim credit for all of his works. To protect other families, his memoirs omitted some details during the communist regime.[citation needed] The Securitate particularly attacked wealthy families of the interwar period and seized their property and jailed many Romanians.
Until recently[23] no reference to Socolescu was visible in the streets of Ploiești or the capital. A Technical High School in Ploiești is named after his father,[24] while a Technical College for architecture and public works in Bucharest is named after his uncle. A street is named after his father in Ploiești. However, since 21 October 2010 and the 50th anniversary of his death, he has come out of oblivion. Other ceremonies[25] were held from 2009 to 2011, including the installation of a bust[26] in front of the Central Market Hall of Ploiești and the naming of the adjacent park, for the architect. On 29 September 2010, Socolescu was posthumously awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of the City of Ploiești.[27]
His friend Ion Ionescu-Quintus at the Păulești manor, around 1930.
any of his works were destroyed partly by the American bombardments of 1943–44, that were especially harsh[28] in Ploiești, and more were razed by Nicolae Ceaușescu's policy of systematization[29] that removed all traces of the soul of Romanian architecture. Many surviving properties were returned to him in a degraded state,[30] such as his manor house in Păulești,[31] or his building in Ploiești, which was disfigured during the 1950s.[32]
His house of Păulești[33] is on the regional list of Historic Monuments,[34] after 45 years of neglect by the state. Built by another architect with no link to the Socolescu style, it was returned to the heiress in a much damaged state. Stripped of its land, and of its ornamental garden (organized by Socolescu), it lost most of its original beauty and harmony. The estate was sold by the family in August 2010.
A gathering of friends and family in the manor of Păulești in 1937.
His Ploiești apartment house suffered badly during 1944. It was nationalized in 1950 and disfigured by a rehabilitation. It was partially returned to the family in 2006.[32]
Most of the finest edifices of Ploiești, including several built by the Socolescus, were demolished in the 1970s and 1980s, under pretext of structural weakness due to the earthquakes of 1940 and 1977.
After 1949 Socolescu devoted his spare time to his memoirs. He continued to work on the project until 1960. In 2004, after more than fifty years of neglect by various Romanian institutions, his family published the first part of his memoirs called Amintiri (the only part he had finished) which covers the period from his birth up to 1924.[35] The Fresco of architects who have worked in Romania in the modern era from 1800 to 1925, a far more important work, was completed in 1955 and also published in 2004 by his family.[36] His book dedicated to the architecture in Ploiești, Arhitectura în Ploești, studiu istoric, published in 1937, was recognized by the Romanian Academy.[4]
The first page of a small booklet he wrote in French in 1941[37] sums up his credo:[38]
La puissance créatrice de notre peuple est complètement prouvée par son bel art populaire plusieurs fois millénaire ainsi que par l'architecture plus récente de nos églises, habitations princières et voïvodales. La Création étant le but suprême d'un peuple, c'est par notre apport personnel que nous justifierons notre existence de demain. En Architecture, il ne faut pas à tout prix rechercher le nouveau et nous garder des formules sacro-saintes, comme par exemple: il faut être de son temps. L'architecte ne peut rester en arrière, il a au contraire pour mission d'entraîner ses contemporains dans sa marche vers le progrès. L'architecture ne peut être internationale, elle doit être conservatrice et suivre évolutivement la chaine des traditions d'un peuple. La construction et la décoration, formant l'une le squelette, l'autre l'enveloppe, doivent se compléter et satisfaire aux deux exigences impérieuses: la logique et le sentiment. Un grand penseur européen H. Keyserling, croit que notre peuple est appelé à ressusciter l'art byzantin, qui est à la base de notre Église et de notre architecture et que par une reprise de nos traditions d'art, de l'esprit duquel a jailli l'art de notre passé, nous devons diriger nos pas vers une renaissance moderne de nos arts plastiques.
Toma T. Socolescu died on October 14, 1960, in Bucharest, at the home of his son Toma Barbu Socolescu, leaving the second part of his memoirs unfinished (period after 1924). He is buried in the Socolescu family vault at Bellu Cemetery in Bucharest.
Official duties, titles and public responsibilitiesedit
Socolescu had a limited political commitment. His service as mayor, municipal councilor and deputy allowed him to advance cultural, urban planning or architecture projects. His links with Nicolae Iorga led him to take responsibility within the Nationalist-Democrat Party.[39] He developed relationships and friendships with people from other political sides, such as Ion Ionescu-Quintus from the National Liberal Party.
His only national political action was his support for the bill regarding the Organization of the Corps of Architects and the Romanian Register of Architects in 1932. Adopted by parliament, a royal decree of application was signed on 15 July 1932.[40] His official positions include:
Professor of Theory of Architecture at the Bucharest National Higher School of Architecture (1927–1947).
Chief Architect of the Prahova County (1919–1920)
Mayor of Ploiești from December (1919 – March 1920)[c 5]
Councilor of Ploiești (10 March 1926 – 20 March 1929) under Mayor Ion Georgescu Obrocea.[c 6]
Prahova County deputy[c 7] under the government of Nicolae Iorga (19 April 1931 – 6 June 1932), within the Nationalist-Democrat Party.[39]
Vice-president of the Nationalist-Democrat Party from May 1929.[41]
Mayor of the commune of Păulești (February 1938 – November 1940, (February 1942 – January 1945).[5]
Awarded the Order of the Cross Regina Maria for his military buildings during the first world war.[42]
Work award, first class for his teaching (May 1927), upon the opening of the Palace of Business Schools main body in Ploieștii.[42]
Member of the Order of the Crown of Romania to the rank of officer by order of King Ferdinand I of Romania in 1925.[43]
Member of the Union of Architects of the Popular Republic of Romania (1953–).[44]
Honorary citizen of the City of Ploiești, posthumously, since September 2010.[27]
Honorary citizen of the Municipality of Păulești, posthumously, since May 2018.[45]
Genealogyedit
The Socol family of Berivoiul-Mare, formerly part of Făgăraș or Făgăraș land is a branch of the Socol family of Muntenia, which lived in the county of Dâmbovița. A Socol, great boyar and son-in-law of Mihai Viteazul (1557–1601), had two religious organizations in Dâmbovița county, still existing, Cornești and Răzvadu de Sus. He built their churches (and another one in the suburb of Târgoviște). This boyar married Marula, daughter of Tudora din Popești, sister of Prince Antonie-Vodă. Marula was recognized by Mihai Viteazul as his illegitimate daughter, following an extra-marital liaison with Tudora. Marula is buried in the cemetery of Răzvadu de Sus church.[46]
Iorga found Socol ancestors among the founders of the town of Făgăraș.[b 16][b 17] Around 1846, five Socol brothers came to Muntenia from Berivoiul-Mare, in the Land of Făgăraș where the name of Socol is widespread.
It is told that an ancestor of Socol would come to Muntenia, including the region of Târgoviște, home of the family Socol, being so far next to Târgoviște, the Socol valley, and their two religious endowments Răzvadul de Sus and Cornești.[a 7]
One of the brothers was architect Nicolae Gh. Socol (??-1872). He settled in Ploiești and named himself Socolescu. He married Iona Săndulescu, from the Sfantu Spiridon suburb. He had a daughter (died in infancy) and four sons,[a 8] two of whom became major architects: Toma N. and Ion N.
Family Tree
Nicolae Gh. Socol (18??-1872) architect
Ioana Săndulescu
Alexandrina Nicolau (1860–1900)
Toma N. Socolescu (1848–1897) chief architect of Ploiești
Nicolae N. Socolescu timber merchant
Ghiță N. Socolescu artist painter, dead during his graduate studies
Ion N. Socolescu (1856–1924) architect
Florica Tănescu (1887-1969)
Toma T. Socolescu (1883–1960) professor-architect
Florica T. Socolescu
Smaranda T. Socolescu
Ioan T. Socolescu
Coralia-Ioana-Margareta T. Socolescu
Mircea Socolescu (1907–1978) settled in France in 1945, married without children
First prize for model plan for a small wooden church with one steeple and for a model plan for a bigger one with several steeples, Pantocratul, 1907.[b 18]
Second prize for the Normal School of Buzău.[b 19] The first prize was not awarded because only two architects participated.
First prize in the contest for the unification of the Palace of the newspapers Adevărul and Dimineața facades. More than 30 architects participated in the contest in 1914. Socolescu's project was published in Dimineața[47] and in Arhitectura in 1916 and 1924.[d 3] The construction was never built because of the First World War. A different facade was built in the 1920s.
First prize in the contest for building the Creditul Prahovei of Ploiești around 1923. Pictures and plans of the bank were published in Arhitectura in 1926.[d 4]
First prize in the contest for the Palace of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (in Ploiești) probably around 1920, following the acquisition of adjacent buildings by the Chamber of Commerce. The work was only partially completed. The Chamber was abolished by the Communists in 1949, after 84 years of activity. The palace was destroyed during the communist period.
First prize in the contest of the Orthodox cathedral of the town of Târgu Mureș in 1924. The cathedral was constructed according to the design of another architect who had lost the competition.[48]
First prize in the contest for the Palace of the Municipality of Bucharest in 1925. The project was published in Arhitectura in 1926.[d 5] This success was the opportunity to celebrate Socolescu in Ploiești.[49] It was never built.
First prize in the contest of the Casino of the Astra Română Refinery in Ploiești. It was published in the July–October 1937 issue of Arhitectura.[d 6] The project was never built.
First prize in the contest of the covered market of the town of Predeal. The project was not executed.
First prize in the contest for the Labour Palace of the City of Ploiești. The project was not executed.
Architectural achievementsedit
Socolescu signed his works on the rooftops by a stylized reversed lily often made of zinc or copper. The signature is visible on many of his works.
The Palace of Business Schools became the National College Ion Luca Caragiale in 1948.
In Ploieștiedit
Palace of Business Schools,[50] at (now) 98 Gheorghe Doja street. Construction was carried out between 1924 and 1938.[a 9] It hosted business schools for boys from 1938,[51] under the name Liceul Comercial Spiru Haret, until the communists came to power in 1948. It now houses the National College Ion Luca Caragiale.[52] It is classified as an historical monument.[34]Former Primary teachers house of Ploiești or Casa corpul Didactic.
Primary teachers house of Ploiești.[53] The building is located at 8 Ștefan cel Mare street. Its construction began in 1925 and was probably completed in 1931.[54] It was inaugurated on 2 October 1932[55] It was affected by the 1940 and 1977 earthquakes. Integrating the facilities for teachers and their families, it housed a theater-cinema, a bookstore and a printing press in the basement.[a 10] It no longer houses the teachers. Nationalized by the Communists in 1962, it was recovered by the County League of Prahova Free Teaching Unions[56] in a decrepit state.[57] It was sold several times and underwent rehabilitation from 2010 to 2013. The building must be converted into a polyclinic. It is classified as an historical monument.[34]
Courthouse, designed in collaboration with French architect Ernest Doneaud. Implementation began before the war[a 9] under the prefect Luca Elefterescu. Socolescu was nominated "executive architect" responsible for all construction from 1923 until its completion in 1932.[58] This edifice became the Palace of Culture in 1953, while still hosting the appeal court. Weakened and damaged by the war and the earthquake of 1977, it was strengthened in the 1980s. Its restoration resumed in 2006. It was published in Arhitectura in 1924.[d 7] The palace has been classified as an historical monument.[34]
The Courthouse, transformed into the Palace of Culture.
Central Market Hall of Ploiești, is a masterpiece.[a 11] The construction contract was signed in 1912, based on the municipal council decision of 9 November 1912, chaired by Mayor Scarlat Orăscu.[59] Work began in June 1930[60] and was completed in 1935.[c 8] Its construction is based on the principles of hygiene and logistics, and echoed across Europe. Socolescu carried out a study tour in Vienna and Budapest in the winter of 1913[b 20] before starting the project, and undertook two others during its execution. He visited Geneva, Basel, Stuttgart, Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig, Munich and Breslau. He completed his study by visiting the food floors of department stores in Berlin, the halls of Reims, Lyon and Dieppe in France, the fruit hall of Milan in Italy, and finally the halls of Budapest in Hungary. In the article he wrote for French magazine La Construction moderne in September 1936, Socolescu detailed his project, its objectives and its layout and operations. The Market Hall eventually became the symbol of the City of Ploiești. Partially damaged by the bombing, it was consolidated in the 1980s. The project nearly failed, due to new mayor Ion Georgescu Obrocea who in 1929 gave the project to another company, although Socolescu had had a contract since 1913. Socolescu successfully challenged this new contract, thanks to his friend lawyer Grigore Ivănceanu.[61][b 21][59] The whole edifice is classified as an historical monument.[34] On 27 February 1936, Socolescu officially introduced a construction project that was never realized.[62]
Central Market Hall
The former Creditul Prahovei.
Creditul Prahovei at the intersection of Republicii boulevard with Take Ionescu street, facing what was at that time the central square of the city: Piață Unirii.[63] It later became the Banca Românească. Since the 1990s, the building houses the Banca Comercială Română or BCR. The work was designed around 1923 and probably completed in 1926. Photographs and plans of the bank were published in the Arhitectura journal in 1926.[d 4] The building is classified as an historical monument.[34]
Cinematograph Scala, still visible is sited on Traian Moșoiu street. It was originally a brewery[a 9] constructed on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce of Ploiești around 1933.[64] Decommissioned and abandoned in the 2000s, the place was renovated in 2009–2010.
The Scala cinematograph.
St John the Baptist Cathedral (Catedrala Sfântul Ioan Botezătorul)
In 1912, Socolescu had worked on the old St John the Baptist church. According to his plans, the main dome was elevated 5 meters.[c 9]
The work was carried out between 1923[c 10] and 1939. The cathedral honors the dead of the First World War and is part of a national-religious momentum. The steeple is classified as an historical monument.[34] Only the 60-meter-high (200 ft) bell tower and the first part of the work were completed,[a 12][c 11] stopped by the war. The project for the rest of the building that would replace the existing church remained unfulfilled until work resumed in 2008, inspired by Socolescu's plans.
The facade is particularly unique to the time, and two monumental statues line the entrance. The interior's furniture is remarkable. The pre-project, and the plans of the cathedral, were published in the 1925 and 1926 issues of Arhitectura.[d 8]
Cathedral St John the Baptist in Ploiești.
In Prahova countyedit
Boys High School of Câmpina.Socolescu designed the boys high school of Câmpina,[65] at 4 Doftanei avenue. Plans were realized and approved by the Ministry of Education in 1926.Boys High School of Câmpina. Its central part as well as the wing facing Doftanei avenue were built between 1928 and 1929. The second wing, facing the Mihai Eminescu street, the Carrare marble staircase, the marble interior ornaments, the carved oak internal doors in the main hall, as well as the wrought iron ones from the outside, were carried out between 1932 and 1942. It was damaged by the earthquake of 1940 and by the bombing (the Mihai Eminescu wing and the gym were destroyed). The wing was rebuilt in 1957–1958. The 1977 earthquake left the building unusable. The building now houses the Nicolae Grigorescu National College formerly named in 1930 Liceul Dimitrie Barbu Stirbey.[66]
Archaeology and heritage conservationedit
Socolescu had pursued a specialty in Romanian archaeology. He was interested in architectural history and preservation of architectural heritage. In addition to the renovation of old churches, he worked several times with Nicolae Iorga from 1919 onwards to protect remarkable ancient edifices. His projects included:
Renovation, around 1919, of the house of the boilermaker trader Hagi Prodan, built in 1785. It is regarded as a typical residence of a Ploiești merchant in the 17th and 19th century.[67] It is classified as an historical monument.[34] Hagi Prodan house was the first History museum of the City of Ploiești, founded by Socolescu. After being renamed and dedicated to other purposes, the museum is now[23] called Casa de Târgoveț din Secolul al XVIII-lea – al XIX-lea museum.[10]
Rediscovery and repair of a small and archaic ruined church in Ploeștiori or Ploieștiori in the commune of Blejoi, around 1919–1920, dating from the first half of the 18th century. Socolescu saved icons and religious art objects that he placed in the County Museum.[a 3] Originally installed in the Hagi Prodan house, the Muzeul judetului no longer exists under that name. The location of these objects is unknown as of 2010.[68] They may be in one of the museums gathered in 1955 in the Muzeul județean de Istorie și Arheologie Prahova institution, to which the Hagi Prodan House is now attached. In 1929,[a 13]Socolescu brought Nicolae Iorga there. Iorga uncovered ancient murals hidden beneath the coating. A related article was written by the historian in the Bulletin of the Historical Monuments Commission.[69] The church, baptized Sfantu Visarion church, is classified as an historical monument.[34] In October 2010, the ruins were abandoned and endangered. The land where they are located was sold in the 1990s by the mayor, to a private owner.
Archaeological studies and topographic map of the Dobrescu house (Casa Dobrescu) in Ploiești, a typical house of merchants from the beginning of the 19th century.[70][a 14] Located at 1 Kutuzov street, the house became the Ion L. Caragiale Museum on 30 January 1962.[71]
Sfantu Pantelimon church, located at 71 Democrației street. The work was done over a period of 24 years between 1912 and 1936, due to funding constraints.[c 12] Father Ene Dumitrescu was the initiator of the project. He asked Socolescu to develop the project. The earthquake of 1940 caused the collapse of the great tower. The 1977 quake damaged the walls. Two phases of reconstruction and consolidation took place in 1946 and between 1977 and 1994, including the renovation of frescos.[72]
Sfantu Haralambie church at 65 Mărășești street. Between 1931 and 1932, Socolescu made renovations, restorations and exterior embellishments. He radically changed the appearance of the church by rebuilding the small towers of the facade and adding a brâncovenesc style porch. It also received a reinforced concrete ceiling. The church experienced consolidations and changes after the earthquakes. In 1979 the parish priest built a great tower, which existed previously and burned in 1925.[c 13] This addition was made without the approval of civil authorities.[73]
Saint Pantelimon church.
Neo-brâncovenesc porch of Saint Haralambie.
Another view of the same porch.
Religious works of Toma T. Socolescu
Reconstruction in 1937–1938 of the Ploeștiori[a 15] or Ploieștiori church, on the outskirts of Ploiești, about the Valeni barrier, near the Vega refinery. The church has undergone several renovations. It already had a concrete structure that collapsed during the 1977 earthquake. According to the parish priest,[74] in September 2009 a monograph on the church was written.
Partial reconstruction of the Măgula village church in Tomșani commune between 1933 and 1938. The new church was inaugurated in November 1938.[75] The altar and the porch of the church are classified as historical monuments.[34]
From 1953 to 1957, in the Department of Historical Monuments, he worked on the restoration of sites and monuments[b 8] including the Brebu Monastery (Prahova), Huniade Castle of Timișoara, the Church of the Holy Emperors Constantine and Helen (Sfanta Împărați Constantin și Elena) of Târgoviște, the churches of Ploeștiori or Ploieștiori in Ploiești suburbs and Heresti-Ilfov[76] as well as other Gothic churches of Transylvania.
Other achievementsedit
Ploieștiedit
Villa of pharmacist N. Hogaș, brother of the writer Calistrat Hogaș, Gh. Lazăr street. During its construction, Socolescu reserved the ceiling of the lounge for a future fresco by Tomescu.[a 16] Built around 1907, the house was destroyed during World War II. This was Socolescu's first work.
Pasapeanu House,[b 22] a small house on (now) Barbu Dela Vrancea street, built around 1908. This is his smallest work.
House[b 22] on 31 Vlad Tepes street[77] that was made around 1908.
House[b 8] on București avenue near the South Railway Station (Gara de Sud), built around 1908. The house was destroyed by the Communists to make room for the Plants of 1 May.
Rental property[a 17] on Lipscani street, probably built about 1910, razed by Communists.[78]
Orăscu residential house, at 18 Independenței boulevard.[c 14] Built around 1920 in the Art Nouveau fashionable French style of the time. Its interior was luxurious. The house was confiscated by the Communists, then turned into a popular canteen.[b 23] It later became a polyclinic for children.[23] The house is classified as an historical monument.[34]
The Scarlat Orăscu house
Europa Hotel, renovation and addition of a floor in collaboration with Ion N. Socolescu before 1914–1915. The hotel, first called the Victoria Hotel, was originally planned by his grandfather Nicolae Gh. Socol.[a 18][b 24][79] It was demolished by the Communists in 1960.
Hora țărănească in Ploiești, planned around 1913, destroyed around 1950.
House, built along with Ion Socolescu[a 19] shortly before the First World War. It was damaged in the bombing and demolished in 1950.
House at 12 Ștefan cel Mare street, built before the First World War, destroyed by the bombing, according to Memoirs of Socolescu. It housed the city's Technical Services in 1938.[a 10] However, an ancient house remains, which matches Socolescu's style for its ground floor part.[80] The originally one-story house, was expanded by one floor during the communist era.
Villa of Zaharia Leon on Drosescu street.
Villa on (now) C.T. Grigorescu street dates from 1913 to 1914. The villa was destroyed by the bombing.[23] A later-built house has partially preserved the original wall and gate.
Villa[a 10] at 8 Maramureș street. Built before 1914, it was nationalized by the Communists. The house is classified as an historical monument[34] and hosts the National Department of Highways.[23]
The house of Toma T. Socolescu in Ploiești. His own work.
Socolescu rental property at 2 Ștefan cel Mare Aurel Vlaicue street. Built from 1914, the building was habitable from 1915 and probably completed after World War I. Socolescu borrowed from banks to finance it. He installed his office and worked there until the bombing partially destroyed it.[b 25] The structure was confiscated and transformed by the Soviets in the 1950s.[81] The original facade was replaced by a more sober style. Originally the building had 7 shops on the ground floor and 5 apartments, and housed Socolescu and his family.[b 26]
Rental property[a 20] in the old market ('Obor'), at 1 Émile Zola. Built in the 1920s, it was nationalized in 1950. The block of houses where it is located, escaped communist destruction.
Villa on Eminescu street. Built in the 1920s and destroyed by bombing.
Probably built in 1922 as shown by an inscription in the lobby. It is located on Kogălniceanu street (formerly Franceză street), was published 36. Nationalized, the building was only partially recovered by the Bogdan's heirs.[82] The house is one of the few remnants of the ancient town center of Ploiești that was razed and rebuilt in a modern style around 1980.
The Gheorghe Bogdan's building.
Toboc building at 1 Democrației street. According to the family[83] of the former owner and other corroborating sources, Socolescu designed and built the building. The style is reminiscent of his brâncovenesc style. The construction resembles the rental structurethat he had planned for himself a few years before, at 2 Ștefan cel Mare street. Achieved between 1920 and 1924, nicknamed Toboc (squat man), the building was nationalized in 1950. It has been[23] occupied by tenants since the 1977 earthquake. The construction is listed as a maximum seismic risk building.[84]
The Toboc building
House at 6 Rahovei road. Built around 1920, it was damaged in the bombing, but was rebuilt almost identically under Socolescu's supervision. The house was renovated in 2009 and preserves much of its original style. A photograph was published in Arhitectura in 1925.[d 9]
House built in 1933–1934 at 4 Italiană street.[85] It was confiscated and internally damaged during the communist period.[86] The house is classified as an historical monument.[87]
The Ștefan Z. Ghica Ghiculescu house
Theater and cinematograph Odeon. It was built in 1927 and inaugurated on 28 February 1928.[88] It was operating as a cinema in 1932.[89] Renamed Rodina after its nationalization in 1948,[90] it sheltered from 1955 the Teatrul de Stat din Ploiești.[91] It was transformed and modernized by the Communists in 1954.[92] It was recognizable in 1957, after a long renovation during which its capacity increased to 600 seats.[93] At an unknown later date, as a result of the 1977 earthquake, it was buried at the foot of a Soviet-style residential block. It is renamed the Toma Caragiu theater on 6 September 1991.[94]Odeon theater around 1970.
Portal of the Ploiești exhibition center. Built in the 1930s, it later became the hippodrome gate. Destroyed by the bombing, the current portal is a poor copy of the original.[c 15]
Renovation of the ground floor[a 17] of the Ploiești Central Bank[95] in the 1930s. Affected by the 1977 earthquake, the bank was razed by the Communists.
Peasant inn at the Bucov barrier,[96] at 2 Strada Oborului. Probably one of Socolescu's last works (1938–1939), it was planned to accommodate merchants and farmers. The market was moved to the outskirts of the town after the construction of the central hall. It was originally surrounded by horse stalls. It is a one-story building Romanian villa-style, with a large terrace in front, carved oak pillars and tiled roof. At the rear of the courtyard stood a barn for 40 animals and a smaller office building. At the time of the legionnaire regime, it became a shelter for refugees from Transylvania. Later it welcomed the nervous disease hospital of Cernăuți, evacuated following the Soviet invasion of Northern Bukovina. It then became officially the "Hospital of the Peasant Inn". Seriously affected by the bombing, the hospital was evacuated to Filipeștii de Pădure. A section for Soviet troops was opened in October 1944. In 1951, the department of nervous diseases returned. The building functioned continuously as a hospital through at least 2010.[97]
Family grave of the Gheorghiu family in the Viișoara cemetery. A picture was published in Arhitectura in 1925.[d 10] The tomb still existed in 2009, although changed and degraded.
According to some sources[98] the Memorial to the heroes of World War I in the Bolovani cemetery was done by Socolescu. Partially destroyed by the bombing, it was rebuilt, but the bronze eagle that covered the top was never rebuilt.
Prahova countyedit
Manor of Gérard Joseph Duqué in Păulești, on the town's southern border, built from 1920 to 1935. The house was commissioned by Obrocea Ion Georgescu, then transferred to Duqué for repayment of debts,[99] it was redesigned by the architect for Duqué.
T. T. Socolescu school.
Town Hall, primary school, public baths, small maternity ward, stables and carved wood Trinity memorial of the Păulești commune. The works were completed between 1937 and 1944. The stables became a bakery. The memorial was moved to the village cemetery.
Two houses for family members of I. Diamandescu[c 9] and Costică Dușescu[b 8] built around 1907 in Câmpina.
Villa of D. Ștefănescu in Câmpina. Designed in 1916 and built later, the outside appearance of the house was slightly changed. It survives at 112 Carol I boulevard. A 1916 issue of Arhitectura exhibited Socolescu's plans and sketches.[d 11]
D. Ștefănescu Villa around 1930.
Voiculescu Pharmacy, Câmpina. It was demolished after the 1977 earthquake.
Villa of Dr. Gheorghiu, Câmpina. The villa is unchanged, on Carol I boulevard, crossing Aleea Rozelor.
Villa of Dr Gheorgiu.
Villa of Nicolae Popescu, Câmpina, around 1933. The villa is well preserved.[100]
Courthouse[101] of Câmpina, located at 14 1 Decembrie 1918 street. The plans were drawn around 1924.[102] In 1931 the construction was completed and the Judecatoria de Pace Mixta Campina began operations.[103] The building still shelters[23] the Judecatoria as well as the Prefecture offices.
Courthouse[101] of Vălenii de Munte, located at 26 Mihai Bravu street. Construction began in 1923.[104] The exterior is in good shape, but as of 2010 was abandoned.[23]
House in Vălenii de Munte, restored[b 8] between 1907 and 1908.
House in Vălenii de Munte built about 1926–1927.[20] Its original appearance changed. It is located at 12 Mihai Eminescu street.
Mortuary chapel of Tomescu's family[20] in Vălenii de Munte, built around 1938–1939. The painter created and executed the murals. Baptised as Holy Triniy chapel,[105] it serves as a chapel for the town cemetery.
Royal villa in Vălenii de Munte for Princess Elena and Prince Michael. Designed and built under the guidance of Nicolae Iorga. A section plan is visible in the 1930 edition of Arhitectura.[d 12] The project was not fully realized.[b 27] The villa was destroyed by the Communists.
Villa of Nicolae Iorga in Sinaia, built around 1918. It is classified as an historical monument.[34] The house is at 1 Gheorghe Doja street and is perfectly preserved by the family.
Villa of lawyer Grigore Ivănceanu in Sinaia . It survives at 4 Piatra Arsă street.
Villa of N. Scorțeanu in Sinaia , in the Cumpătu district. A photograph of the house was published in Arhitectura in 1925.[d 13]
Villa Al. Radovici in Sinaia , transformations.[106]
Town Hall of Sinaia, renovation.
Villa of Florica Socolescu, built in 1925. It sits at 22 Cumpătu street in Sinaia-Cumpătu. Socolescu built it for Florica. Renovated in the 2000s, it has barely changed. Photographs and an inside plan of the villa were published in 1925 and 1941 in Arhitectura.[d 14]
The villa in 1925.
The villa in 2009.
Neo-brâncovenesc balcony.
The main door.
Florica Socolescu villa
Town Hall, public baths and agricultural center of Urlați. Construction started before 1916.
Royal house, Vălenii de Munte (plan).
Monument of the Trinity, in carved wood, for the town of Dumbrăvești.[107] It no longer exists.
Assumption's church (Adormirea Maicii Domnului) in the town of Scăeni.[109] It was built between 1936 and 1938 and published in Arhitectura in March 1938.[d 15] The roof and towers were later altered. One of the two original towers was replaced by two small ones.[110] The original aesthetic has disappeared.
House of engineer Toma Călinescu at 1 Monumentului street.
House of teacher Emil Popescu at 1 Armoniei street in the Boldești-Scăeni commune.[110]
Bucharestedit
Rental property on Brâncoveanu street.
Rental property at 105 Șerban Vodă avenue. It adopted the same model as the Gheorghe Bogdan house of Ploiești. The apartment house was later modernized, destroying the original design. A photograph of the building was published in Arhitectura in 1924.[d 16]
The Tilman brothers building in Bucharest, around 1925.
Tilman brothers building. It is located at the intersection of FIilitti street and Tonitza street. This apartment house was probably built between 1923 and 1925.[111] A piece of its upper front sprocket is no longer present.
D. Ionescu villa, Bucharest.
Villa on Mitropolit Antim Ivireanul street, published in Arhitectura in 1924.[d 17] No longer in existence.
House of Engineer Al. Gheorghiade, located in Bonaparte Park. A photograph of the house was published in Arhitectura in 1926 and 1941 issues.[d 18]
Villa D. Ionescu, built in 1927 at 26 Gheorghe Brătianu (now) street. Two pictures of the house were published in Arhitectura in 1930.[d 19] It is classified as an historical monument.[112]
Other countiesedit
Boys High School of the railway station in Buftea (Ilfov County). It is located at 76 Mihai Eminescu boulevard. As of 2009 its name was Buftea Barbu Știrbei Economic High School.[113]
Sfantu Nicolae și Alexandru church of Netezești, Cummune of Nuci (Ilfov county), on Principală street near the City Hall. The construction[114] and the interior (all furniture) were probably made between 1912 and 1916. It is classified as an historical monument.[115]
The Netezești church was erected at the expense of Mrs. Al Serghiescu. Its interior paintings were executed under the guidance of painter Pavlu by artists Tonitza, St. Dumitrescu, Schweitzer-Cumpana and Bălțatu.[b 28]
Attributed works (non-exhaustive list)edit
Many buildings of the period adopted Socolescu's style and signature. Some buildings have been attributed to him for which adequate documentation is not available.
House at 10 Nicolae Bălcescu, in Ploiești.
House at 120 Cantacuzino street, (crossing with Traian street), Ploiești, built in 1924.
House at 17 Cantacuzino street, Ploiești.
Nicolae Bălcescu street, No. 10.
Cantacuzino street, No. 17.
Cantacuzino street, No. 120.
House at 3 Constanței street, was published 3, Ploiești.
House at 7 Constanței street, was published 7, Ploiești.
Twin houses at 34 Decebal street, and on 33 Primaveri street, Ploiești. They were the property of Tănase Vasilescu.[116]
Entry of house on Constanței street, No. 3.
Constanței street, No. 3.
Primaveri street, No. 33.
Constanței street, No. 7.
Remarkable roof of house on Constanței street, No. 7.
Unbuilt worksedit
Of Socolescu's ten contest wins, only two were built: the Creditul Prahovei and, partially, the Palace of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Many other projects were not built, including:
Project for South-East European Institute,[b 29] probably designed around 1910.
Church project in Slănic realised during the 1913 summer and exposed at the Romanian Athenaeum of Bucharest in spring 1916. It was published in Arhitectura in 1920.[d 20]
Public garden project on the Piață Unirii in Ploiești, offered free by Socolescu to the city in 1922.[117]
Wholesale covered market project in Ploiești, imagined behind the Central Market Hall, in 1936.
Palace of Culture project for Ploiești in 1937.[118] The project was to modify the former courthouse built by Socolescu and Ernest Doneaud, which was renamed Palace of Culture in 1953.
Church projects for Predeal (around 1956 with his son),[119] and for the Păulești commune (1939).
Town hall Project for Făgăraș.
Publicationsedit
In Mihail Sevastos monograph on the City of Ploiești, Monografia orașului Ploești, 1937, Socolescu wrote the chapters on the city's architecture, Central Market hall, urbanism, history of city plans and culture (visual artists, museums and the Nicolae Iorga library). Some of his watercolors and drawings are included.
In the Bulletin of the Committee on Historical Monuments (BCMI),[120] numerous articles including:
Sfantu Nicolae church of Bălteni,[121] archaeological studies and topographic map. Published in 1908 in the first issue, Third quarter, under the title Architectural notes, pp. 114–119.[122]
Casa Hagi Prodan in Ploiești, archaeological studies and topographic map. Published in 1916[67] in the final issue before the war. The article will also be published in his book Arhitectura în Ploești, studiu istoric.[a 21] Having suffered from the bombing of 1944, the house was restored and the museum re-inaugurated on 1 May 1953.[b 11]
Casa Dobrescu in Ploiești, a typical house of merchants and small manufacturers from the beginning of the 19th century, archaeological studies and topographic map.[70][a 14]
In Arhitectura from 1916 to 1944:
Many illustrated articles on Romanian architecture.
Portraits of "disappeared" architects including Ion N. Socolescu, Alexandru Clavel, D. Herjeu and Toma N. Socolescu.[d 21]
Note de drum din Italia (Travel notes in Italy). A 7-page illustrated article published in 1925, pp. 30-36.
Plans and photographs of finished works, drawings and watercolors of old Romanian buildings. The issue of January–March 1941 contains an article dedicated to the old Romanian art in Bessarabia, illustrated on several pages with Socolescu's waterpaintings.
A profession of faith entitled "Principles and improvements, Towards a Romanian modern architecture" in the April–June 1941 issue.[d 22] The author ses preserving the national cultural wealth, and the Romanian national genius, while seeking progress and modernity. Socolescu rejected international architecture. The same year, he published this article in a French version.[123]
An article proposing an institute dedicated to promoting and developing Romanian architecture: "An institute of Romanian architecture", in the issue of 1943–1944.[d 23]
Old house of Ploiești, (Județul Prahova, Romania) as it was until the beginning of the 20th century.
In Simetria: one article on Romanian architects who studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Studies on some old houses and historical monuments of Ploiești, including in 1915:
The ruins of the Saint Nicolas the Old church at 105 Sfantu Nicolae Vechi Mihai Bravu street)[124][c 16]
An old house, similar to the Hagi Prodan house's style, located on 23 Ștefan cel Mare street.[125]
An illustrated publication Prin Ardeal, note de drum ale unui arhitect.[126] The travel journal is also included in Amintiri, pp. 96–104.
In the Biblioteca Urbanistă collection, two volumes of translations with introductory studies and illustrations:
"Urbanism la îndemâna tuturor: pentru uzul consilierilor comunali și județeni, arhitecților, inginerilor, medicilor, ofițerilor, agronomilor și al tuturor persoanelor ce se interesează de mai buna stare a orașului " of Jean Raymond.[127]
Igiena urbană the translation of a reference book, published in 1921 in Paris, on the subject of urban hygiene.[128][b 30]
Articles about the Central Hall of Ploiești:
Ploiești Central Hall Pre-projet (1913) of Toma T. Socolescu, far from the final version adopted in 1929.
Romania: two issues of Arhitectura, 1931–1933 and July 1936, including a long article with photographs.[d 24] The 1936 article appears in Monografia orașului Ploești (pp. 597–603) and in Soloclescu's Arhitectura în Ploești, studiu istoric (pp. 96–101) in Ploiești
On 21 April 1929, an article entitled "The building of the halls", about a legal dispute over the Central Market Hall construction contract.
France: Three illustrated studies regarding the Central Market Hall of Ploiești, written in French by the architect himself.
"L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui", Paris, year 7, number 11, November 1936, pp. 44–45;[129]
"Techniques des Travaux", Paris, year 12, number 8, August 1936, pp. 413–417;[130]
"La Construction moderne: Paris, year 51, number 46, September 1936, pp. 945–955[131]
United Kingdom: The Architect, London
Germany: A study by Professor Ing. R. Saliger and Ing. Friedrich V. Baravalle, ViennaDer Bauingenieur, Berlin, 26 May 1933, No. 14, Jahrgang, 1933, Heft 21–22[132]
Newspaper articlesedit
He published in Ploiești, Iași and Bucharest newspapers on issues including architecture, town planning, local politics and culture. He was the subject of numerous articles. The following list is not exhaustive, and states when Socolescu is not the author.
(in Romanian)Cronica (literary journal), Bucharest, on May 22, 1916, "About the exhibition of architect T. T. Socolescu" (on the exhibition at the Romanian Athenaeum of Bucharest in spring 1916) by Spiridon Cegăneanu.[b 31]
(in Romanian)Epoca, Bucharest, on May 24, 1916, an artistic chronicle written by Criticus on the painting and architecture exhibition of the painter Toma Gh. Tomescu and Toma T. Socolescu at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest.
(in Romanian)Dimineața, Bucharest, "Celebrating the architect Toma T. Socolescu", published on July 12, 1925, about the celebration in Ploiești of Socolescu's victory in the Palace of the capital Town hall contest. The piece includes an interview.
(in Romanian)Propășirea (literary journal), Iași, "From the past of Ploiești, houses and store dealers – On the occasion of the 50 years Jubilee of the Moțoiu firm", on March 4, 1929.
(in Romanian)Virtutea, "About the need of a civic council", a political article written on March 28, 1929.
(in Romanian)Dimineața, Bucharest, "Approaching the municipal elections" of Ploiești, on May 15, 1929.
(in Romanian)Prahova, Ploiești, "The archpriest Nae Vasilescu", March 1, 1935, obituary.
(in Romanian)Prahova, Ploiești, "The Nicolae Iorga Popular Library", in July 1935.
(in Romanian)Neamul românesc, Bucharest, " Aedileship ... ", on May 27, 1937, by Nicolae Iorga criticizing Ploiești's inertia over addressing shacks and garbage behind the Central Market Hall. The article contrasts this with the work of Socolescu for the city.
(in Romanian)Gazeta carților (literary journal), Bucharest, "Architecture in Ploiești, Historical study by Toma T. Socolescu", January / February 1938, written by D. M. Rîmnicat the occasion of the book's release.
(in Romanian)Gazeta carților (literary journal), Bucharest, "Memories of Octavian Goga" an obituary on the writer, poet, journalist, playwright and politician, June 1938.
(in Romanian)România, Bucharest, "The main roads", an article written in July 1938 on the insufficiency of the Romanian national roads.
(in Romanian)Neamul românesc, Bucharest, Letter from Socolescu to Nicolae Iorga, entitled " Architecture is learned in the workshops, not in the pulpit " , November 1938.
(in Romanian)Excelsior, Iași, "The main roads" an article about the poor quality of Romanian national roads, written on January 7, 1939.
(in Romanian)Prahova Noastră, Ploiești, "The festivities of Păulești", written on May 21, 1939.
(in Romanian)Prahova Noastră, Ploiești, "A friend has left us: Victor Rădulescu", mayor of Câmpina (1926–1928), obituary, written on July 2, 1939.
(in Romanian)Excelsior, Iași, "The traffic and accidents" written on August 12, 1939.
(in Romanian)Excelsior, Iași, "The development of fruits", on the development of fruit production, in August 1939.
(in Romanian)Universul, Bucharest, "An old Romanian house from Chișinău, a first article on the rural architectural tradition in Bessarabia written on July 22, 1940. Other articles were to follow in later issues.
(in Romanian)Prahova Noastră, Ploiești, "Costică Marinescu (stair joiner)", an obituary in tribute to the master published in February 1942.
(in Romanian)Prahova Noastră, Ploiești, "The forecasts of V. Blasco Ibanez", on the Spanish author: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, on May 10, 1942.
(in Romanian)Prahova Noastră, Ploiești, "The street names of Ploiești", an open letter to the mayor on the relevance of street names, on May 20, 1943.
(in Romanian)Gazeta carților (literary journal), Bucharest, "The need to create an institute of Romanian architecture", January 1944. The latter appeared in Arhitectura in 1943–1944.[d 23]
(in Romanian)Presa, Ploiești, "Backing M. I. A. Bassabarescu", an open letter to support the reconstruction of the house of the teacher-writer, destroyed by bombing, on 14 February 1945.
(in Romanian)Presa, Ploiești, "Reconstruction of High School Saint Peter and Paul", on February 21, 1945.
(in Romanian)Opinia liberă (journal), Ploiești, "Restoration of Ploiești", on post-war reconstruction by Dr. Mircea Botez,[133] that was published in No. 72 and 73 of the newspaper Presa, on November 15, 1946.
(in Romanian)Neamul românesc'', Bucharest, "A final word on the issue of the Central Market", article in defense of his work and the Central Market (disparaged and criticized by Botez in Presa), 1946.
Painting and architecture exhibitionsedit
Architectural projects, watercolor and church furniture in the Romanian Athenaeum of Bucharest. Painter Toma Gh. Tomescu also exhibited oils and watercolors.[a 22] Almost all the paintings were purchased.[134][b 31]
Watercolor painted by Toma T. Socolescu then transferred to the Museum of the City of Ploiești in the years 1920–1930. Subject: House of Ion Petre said Boiangiul, located in Ploiești, Ulierului street.
Exhibition of Central Market Hall project at the official Architecture Exhibition of 1930[135]
Architecture and Decorative Arts Exhibition of 1933
Sourcesedit
(in French and Romanian)Socolescu family's archives (Paris, Bucharest) including a photographic collection.
(in Romanian) Manuscripts of the memoirs of Toma T. Socolescu, Amintiri, written between 1949 and 1959.
(in Romanian) Manuscripts of Fresca arhitecților care au lucrat în România în epoca modernă 1800 – 1925 of Toma T. Socolescu, written between 1949 and 1954.
(in Romanian) Historical Study of Toma T. Socolescu on the City of Ploiești: Arhitectura în Ploești, studiu istoric,[136] printer: Cartea Ramânească, București, Preface by Nicolae Iorga, 1938, reference: 16725, 111 pages.
(in Romanian)Monografia orașului Ploești, Mihail Sevastos, Editura: Cartea Ramânească, București, 1938, 1 vol., 905 pages.
(in Romanian) Journal Arhitectura,[137] published by the SOCIETY OF ROMANIAN ARCHITECTS,[1] Bucharest, published from 1906 to 1944[138]
(in Romanian) Library of the Ion Mincu Architecture and Urbanism University.[139]
(in Romanian) Central University Library of Bucharest[140] – and particularly numerous issues of the Romanian architecture journal Arhitectura.
(in Romanian) Prahova County Department of National Archives.[141]
(in Romanian) Official documents of the Romanian institutions.
(in Romanian) Lucian Vasile, historian, expert and head of office at the Institute for the Investigation of the Crimes of Communism and the Memory of the Romanian Exile, president of the Association for the Education and Urban Development (AEDU),[142] native of Ploiești and author of the site specializing in the city and its history: Republica Ploiești.
(in Romanian)Gabriela Petrescu, architect in Bucharest, author of a doctoral thesis: ARHITECȚII SOCOLESCU 1840-1940 - Studiu monografic, dedicated to Socolescu architects, published at the University of Architecture and Urban Planning Ion Mincu, 2014, 330 pages. The thesis is available at the UAIM - Summary of Gabriela Petrescu's thesis.
(in Romanian)Comuna Păulești Județul Prahova – Scurtă monograph, Ing. Constantin Ilie, monograph about the Păulești comune, Editura Ploiești Milenium III, Ploiești, 2005, 1 vol., 103 pages, ISBN973-87051-3-4.
(in Romanian)Bicericile din Ploiești, I Bisericile orthodoxe, Constantin Trestioreanu, Gheorghe Marinică, Editura Ploiești Milenium III, Ploiești, 2003, 203 pages, ISBN973-85670-4-1.
(in Romanian)Monografia orașului Boldești-Scăieni, Cristian Petru Bălan, Editura Premier, Ploiești, 2007, 253 pages, ISBN978-973-740-062-8.
(in Romanian)Constantin Ilie, civil and industrial engineer, construction technical expert for 35 years. Born in 1929 in Păulești, M. Ilie knew personally Toma T. Socolescu. Since 2004 until now, he is studying his work.
(in Romanian)Gérard Joseph Duqué, traversandu-și epoca (1866–1956), Vincent G. Duqué et Paul D. Popescu, book about the life of Gérard Joseph Duqué Editura Ploiești Milenium III, Ploiești, 2006, 1 vol., 189 pages, ISBN973-87924-5-2 and ISBN978-973-87924-5-6.
(in French) Vincent Gérard Duqué, grandson of Gérard Joseph Duqué, Ploiești. The grandfather of Mr. Duqué was a friend of the architect. Both were active members of the Rotary Club of the city.
Bibliographyedit
(in Romanian)Toma T. Socolescu, Amintiri,[143] Editura Caligraf Design, Bucharest, 2004, 1 vol., 237 pages, ISBN973-86771-0-6.[144]
(in Romanian)Toma T. Socolescu, Fresca arhitecților care au lucrat în România în epoca modernă,[145] Editura Caligraf Design, Bucharest, 2004, 1 vol., 209 pages, ISBN973-86771-1-4.[146]
(in Romanian)Toma T. Socolescu, Arhitectura în Ploești, studiu istoric,[136] Editura: Cartea Ramânească, București, Preface by Nicolae Iorga, 1938, 111 pages, reference: 16725.[147] The book includes most of the chapters written by Socolescu for the Monograph of the city of Ploiești, by Mihail Sevastos.
(in Romanian)Mihail Sevastos, Monografia orașului Ploești,[148] Editura: Editura: Cartea Românească, București, 1938, 1 vol., 905 pages.[149]Toma T. Socolescu is one of the authors of the monograph. He wrote the chapters devoted to architecture, the Central Market Hall, urban planning, the city maps history, and culture (visual artists, museums and the "Nicolae Iorga" library).
(in French)Toma T. Socolescu, Vers une architecture roumaine moderne, Extrait du Bulletin de l'Ecole Polytechnique de Bucarest, XII-e année, No. 1 and 2, Tipărire Finanțe Si Industrie, Poetul Mecedonschi street No. 8, București, 1941, 5 pages.
(in Romanian)Toma T. Socolescu, Prin Ardeal, note de drum ale unui arhitect,[126] including illustrations, Editura: Cartea Românească, Biblioteca România viitoare No. 5, Ploiești, 1923, 32 pages, illustrations, 16 cm.[150]
(in Romanian)Toma T. Socolescu, Romanian translation and introductory study of the French book written by Jean Raymond L'urbanisme à la portée de tous,[151] under the Romanian title Urbanism la îndemâna tuturor: pentru uzul consilierilor comunali și județeni, arhitecților, inginerilor, medicilor, ofițerilor, agronomilor și al tuturor persoanelor ce se interesează de mai buna stare a orașului,[127] Jean Raymond, R. Dautry, Biblioteca Urbanistă collection, Editura municipiului Ploiești: Cartea Românească, 1927, 172 pages, illustrations, figures, tables, 19 cm.[152]
(in Romanian)Toma T. Socolescu, Translation and introductory study of Paul Juillerat's book L'hygiène urbaine, under the Romanian title: Igiena urbană,[128] Paul Juillerat, Biblioteca Urbanistă collection, Editura municipiului Ploiești: Cartea Românească, unknown publication date.
(in Romanian)Toma T. Socolescu, Monografie Ion Mincu,[153] București, 408 pages, (vol. I); 69 pages: illustrations; 32 cm (vol. II), ref: II166.[154][b 32]
(in French)Carmen Popescu, Le style national roumain – Construire une nation à travers l'architecture 1881–1945, Presses Universitaires de Rennes – Simetria, Rennes, 2004, 1 vol., 375 pages, ISBN2-86847-913-8, (Simetria: ISBN973-85821-8-0).[155]
(in Romanian)Zina Macri and Ionuț Macri, Toma T. Socolescu arhitect român 1883-1960,[156] Caligraf - Bucharest, 2011 and Editura Universitară „Ion Mincu”- Bucharest, 2013, 1 vol., 264 pages, 2011: ISBN978-973-86771-6-6 and 2013: ISBN978-606-638-062-1.[157]
(in Romanian)Gabriela Petrescu, architect in Bucharest, author of a doctoral thesis: ARHITECȚII SOCOLESCU 1840-1940 - Studiu monografic, dedicated to Socolescu architects, published at the University of Architecture and Urban Planning Ion Mincu, 2014, 330 pages. The thesis is available at the UAIM - Summary of Gabriela Petrescu's thesis.
Notes and referencesedit
(in Romanian) Toma T. Socolescu, Arhitectura în Ploești, studiu istoric,[136] Editura: Cartea Românească, București, Preface by Nicolae Iorga, 1938, 111 pages, reference: 16725. Also in (in Romanian)Mihai SevastosMonografia orașului Ploești.
^Translation of the conclusion's last paragraph, p. 72, p. 212
^pp. 86, 88. Socolescu extensively describes the painter's style and work. pp. 812, 814.
(in Romanian)Toma T. Socolescu, Memoirs of Toma T. Socolescu and book of Toma T. Socolescu: Amintiri,[143] Editura Caligraf Design, Bucharest, 2004, 1 volume, 237 pages.
^pages 21, 23 et 24. His father Toma N. Socolescu was involved in a number of projects and heavily in debt.
^ abpage 24. Even his uncle, the great architect Ion N. Socolescu, would not encourage him to pursue the path of architecture. Toma T will thus first enroll in law, studies that he will quickly abandon.
^Hence, in the manuscript of his memoirs (page 7 of the book Amintiri), the author says, after enumerating a list of his personal works: "I listed above, only a portion of the work I performed as well as my work as an architect and my publications, considering it redundant to further extend this list, but also because it is difficult to remember all."
My grandfather, Nicolae Gh. Socolescu, also an architect, having finished his studies in Vienna, was a descendant of a family that, through a distant ancestor, had obtained a noble rank, in 1655, from G. Rakoczy. The original document written in calfskin, in Latin, with gold letters and the family emblem in colors, laced and bearing the princely seal in red wax, is in the possession of Major S. Socol, former mayor of the city of Făgăraș, where he lives there. N. G. Socolescu (Socol, in Ardeal) came to Muntenia from the Berivoiu Mare commune, located at the foot of the mountains in the Făgăraș region, and settled in Ploiesti, together with his five other brothers, - around the revolution, around 1846, - namely in Sf. Spyridon outskirts. During my childhood and until later, there was his house on Culea Căleni, a house with a ground floor, with a general square shape, set far back from the street and surrounded by a garden. He married Ioana, born Săndulescu, from the same slum, and his name appears among the founders in the church records; and as was customary at that time, I think he was also buried there, - although the research I did remained fruitless, - in 1872
^pp. 43 to 45. According to local sources, unconfirmed by the Royal House of Romania, it seems that the villa was used for the universities of the historian and politician Nicolae Iorga as part of the Princess Helena (Principesa Elena) foundation.
^Translated note written by Toma T. Socolescu, taken from his memoirs. The note (No. 30) appears at the bottom of p. 53. The text (which the note is related to) specifies that the architect and the painter Toma Gh. Tomescu were still working on furnishings of the church in 1916.
^The album of over 130 photographs of works by Mincu, the second volume of the monograph which is mentioned by the architect several times in his memoirs as on page 33 (in note below) and on the first page of the copy available at the library of the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism, seems to have mysteriously disappeared from the documentary fund of the library.
(in Romanian)Mihail Sevastos, Monografia orașului Ploești, Editura: Cartea Românească, București, 1938, 905 pages.
^A long architectural and technical description and illustration: pp. 597, 603.
^Ion Ionescu-Quintus (1875–1933) is the fifth son of Ghiță Ionescu, great banker, merchant and politician of Ploiești (1833–1898).
pp. 429–430; Ghiță Ionescu.
pp. 435–435; Ion Ionescu-Quintus.
^pp. 422, 435 and pp. 442–443. Toma T. Socolescu was Mayor from January to March 1920, and Chairman of the Interim Committee from December 1919 to March 1920, under the period of government Alexandru Vaida-Voevod from 1 December 1919 to 12 March 1920.
Toma T. Socolescu, Palatul Ziarului Adevărul, drawing, 1916, year I, No. 2, May, p. 67.
Toma T. Socolescu, Palatul Adevărului, drawing, 1924, year III, p. 147.
^ abToma T. Socolescu, Banca Creditul Prahovei Ploești, Plans, drawings and photographs, 1926, year V, pp. 111–114.
^Toma T. Socolescu and Pretrescu-Gopeș. D., Concursul pentru Palatul Primăriei Orașului București, Plans and drawings – classed I, 1926, year V, pp. 50–51.
^Toma T. Socolescu, De la concursul "Astrei Române" pentru executarea cazinoului funcționarilor săi din Ploești – Un concurs de schițe, Plans, drawings and text, July–October 1937, issue No. 9-10, pp. 19–20.
^Ernest Doneaud, Palatul Justiției din Ploești, drawing, 1924, year III, p. 74.
Toma T. Socolescu, Halele Centrale ale orașului Ploești, 5 indoor and outdoor photographs of the hall, 1931–1933, pp. 40–41, 86.
Toma T. Socolescu, "Halele Centrale Ploești", article, plans, drawings and photographs, July 1936, No. 6, pp. 13=16, 21–30.
Other references:
^ abcdFounded by Ion N. Socolescu in 1891 and become the Union of Romanian Architects (UAR) UAR internet site, historic
^(in Romanian)Arhitectura în Ploești, studiu istoric.
^(in Romanian) Approved by the Higher Technical Council of the City, published in the (official) journal of 6 March 1935, No. 24.
^ abc(in Romanian) Ilie, Constant. Memories, autobiographical notes pp. 22–23 – Local Council collection of Păulești, File No. 12/1953-1957. National Archives of Prahova County in Ploiești. It is available at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
^ ab(in Romanian) Source: National Archives of Prahova County – Prahova Prefecture fund:
File No. 265/1938, pp. 1–74: Prefecture appointment decision No. 1226 of 18 February 1938.
File No. 263/1940, pp. 1–4: Prefecture Revocation decision No. 856 of 18 November 1940 and appointment of Grigore Dincă.
File No. 433/1942, pp. 1,3,6 and 7: Groups of people from Păulești asks to the Prefect that the Professor-architect is re-installed as mayor – Appointment decision by Prefecture No. 231 of 27 February 1942.
File No. 155/1945, pp. 15–38, Prefecture revocation decision No. 71 of 29 January 1945.
Note: researches of engineer Constantin Ilie, Ploiești, conducted from 26 October 2009 to 9 February 2010.
^(in Romanian) July 2007 decision, and historical disputes since 1995 Source: Municipal Council of Păulești.
^(in Romanian)Gazeta de Păulești, No. 4, February 2009, p. 4 - Link to the document 2011-10-09 at the Wayback Machine
^(in Romanian) Municipal Council of Păulești 31 April 2007 decision – School name translation: Architect Toma T. Socolescu.
^(in Romanian) Source: articles published in local newspapers:
SĂRBĂTOAREA CIREȘELOR, LA PĂULEȘTI, 2 June 2011, Ioan Popescu, newspaper Actualitatea Prahoveană – Omagiu marelui profesor-arhitect Toma T. SocolescuActualitatea Prahoveană, 2 June 2011.
Dumitrescu, N. Ziarul Prahova, Ploiești, 30 May 2011 – La Paulești, a fost dezvelit bustul arhitectului Toma T. Socolescu, Ziarul Prahova, 30 May 2011
^ abTranslation: Seventeenth-nineteenth Century City Dweller Museum – Museum internet site.
^(in Romanian)Roșca, Maria: Maria Tănase. Privighetoarea din „Livada cu duzi", volume II, Ed. Ginta Latină, București, 2000, p. 347.
^(in Romanian) in 1965, the library became: Biblioteca Județeană N. Iorga or County Library N. Iorga.
^A work of art made by his father Toma N. Socolescu.
^(in Romanian) RepublicaPloiesti.net – Vintage photographs of the municipal baths. These would be demolished by the Communist regime around 1955 to make way for apartment buildings.
^(in Romanian) Source: National archives of Prahova county – Ploiești City archives: File No. 449/1939, p. 28: Așezământul Nicolae Iorga, Inventory of Socolescu and Tomescu paintings, registered under No. 53/30 November 1945. Note: researches of engineer Constantin Ilie, Ploiești, conducted from 26 October 2009 to 9 February 2010.
^They were kindly shown to Laura Socolescu, heir of the architect, by the museum curator in August 2009.
^(in Romanian) Source: National Archives of Prahova County – Prahova Prefecture fund: File No. 97/1945, p. 225-243, Investigation file against Toma T. Socolescu for incitement and sabotage agent of the Armistice Agreement – "Declaration of Toma T. Socolescu". Note: researches of engineer Constantin Ilie, Ploiești, conducted from 26 October 2009 to 9 February 2010.
^ abc(in Romanian) Source: illustrated brochure on the painter Toma Gh. TomescuToma Gh. Tomescu 1881–1949, published by Arts Museum of Ploiești in 1974, thanks to the work of its director Ruxandra Ionescu. This brochure is archived at the Museum of Art. It was available in August 2009.
^The I.P.C. Institutul de Proiectare a Construcțiilor is renamed by I.S.P.R.O.R. Institutul de Studii și Proiectare a Orașelor, on 1 January 1953.
An exchange of letters with the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church from 15 November 1959 to challenge some painting and furniture provided in the New St. Eleftherios Church of Bucharest (Biserica Sfântul Elefterie din București) - Source: Socolescu family archives / Paris, Correspondence No. 776 of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Patriarch's Office, dated 27 November 1959, signed by the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church.
A detailed (11 pages) critical presentation sent to the Vice-President of the Regional Council of Ploiești (Engineer Cristescu) following a conference held on 5 June 1959 at the Palace of Culture of the city, about the project of systematization of the town center – Source: Socolescu family archives / Paris.
^(in Romanian) Articles published in the local press in 2009 and 2010:
Initiativa Pentru Comemorarea a 50 de Ani de la Moartea Lui Toma T. SocolescuZiarul Prahova newspaper of 6 July 2009.
Ploiestenii Pot Contribui la Monografia Despre Toma T. SocolescuZiarul Prahova, 24 September 2009.
Concurs Pentru Bustul Lui Toma T. SocolescuZiarul Prahova, 13 May 2010.
La Concursul Pentru Realizarea Bustului Lui Toma T. Socolescu n a Fost Ales Niciun CastigatZiarul Prahova, 16 July 2010.
Va Mai Amintiti de Toma T. SocolescuAdevărul de Seară, 28 September 2010.
Parcul Toma T. Socolescu in PloiestiAdevărul de Seară'', 4 October 2010.
Toma T. Socolescu Omagiat la Ploiesti Si PaulestiZiarul Prahova, 13 October 2010.
Maine Se Implinesc 50 de Ani de la Moartea Lui Toma SocolescuZiarul Prahova, 20 October 2010.
Astazi, la Ploiesti, Manifestari ample in memoria marelui arhitect Toma T. Socolescu, Ziarul Prahova, 21/10/2010.
Remember Profesor Arhitect Toma T. Socolescu-1883-1960-50 Informația Prahovei, 15 October 2010. - Archived 2011-02-23 at Wikiwix
^(in Romanian) Articles published in the local press in 2011:
Actualitate Ploiesti Mihai Eminescu Ploiesti Evocare Eminescu Ploiesti Toma Socolescu PloiestiAdevărul de Seară, 13 January 2011.
Un Bust Din Bronz al Lui Toma T. Socolescu a Fost Dezvelit Ieri in Centrul PloieștiZiarul Prahova, 15 January 2011.
^ ab(in Romanian) Source: Municipal order No. 316 of 29/09/2010.
^Ploiești was a main oil source for the German Third Reich during the Second World War. It has been regularly bombed between 1942 and 1944: see the Oil Campaign chronology of World War II.
(in French) Durandin, Catherine. Le système Ceausescu. Utopie totalitaire et nationalisme insulaireVingtième Siècle, 1990, Volume 25, No. 25, pp. 85–96 –
(in French)Roumanie: la destruction radicale d'un patrimoine national, [s.a.], Continuité, No. 45, 1989, p. 58 -; PDF.
Giurescu, Dinu C. The razing of Romania's past: international preservation report, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Committee, International Council on Monuments and Sites, Distributed by the Preservation Press, Kress Foundation: European Preservation Program of the World Monuments Fund, 1989, 68 pages, ISBN0-911697-04-7, pp. 38–68 („Nationwide urban and rural destruction and resettlement" chapter).
Visan, Laura Houses that Cry: Online Civic Participation in Post-Communist Romania, The McMaster Journal of Communication journal, Vol. 7, Issue 1, 2011, pp. 50–52
(in French) Rufat, Samuel Roumanie. Les transformations en trompe-l'œil d'une capitale libérale, revue Grande Europe, No. 29, February 2011, La Documentation française, Direction de l'information légale et administrative.
(in French)L'impossible restitution des biens en Roumanie, Arielle Thedrel, Le Figaro, 21 April 2006.
^(in Romanian)SOS Casa Socolescu din Paulesti, Prahova, 2010, Costin Pătrașcu, Blog ART Arhitectura Românească Tradițională, Bucharest, published on 8 June 2009 – Article and pictures about the Socolescu manor of Păulești.
(in Romanian) Minutes No. 1177 of 28 March 2006, issued by the Heritage Department of the Ploiești Municipality, for partial possession of the building, following the decision No. 3855/2005 issued by the Mayor by which was restituted in kind (but partially) the building located on Ștefan cel Mare No. 2.
(in Romanian) and (in French)Socolescu family archives and photos / Bucharest, Paris: The commercial spaces and the cellar of the building will be occupied by a Russian-Roman joint society, or SovRoms in the 1950s, then by a food store and a bakery from 1956, and finally by various businesses from 1980–1990. Members of the Securitate and communists leaders will occupy a long time his property. When the building will be returned (only partly) by the City Council to his heiress in 2006, the cellar had been flooded and used as a dump, the courtyard had been used as public open toilets, the roof had been torn by wild antennas and part of the building was squatted by homeless people. The building had in fact not been maintained for over 30 years.
^(in French and Romanian) Source: Socolescu family / Bucharest, Paris. The Toma T.'s "conac", or manor, has been completely looted and stripped of all its decorations, ornaments, tiles and equipment. The house has been returned in a state of half-ruin, on a very reduced land compared to its land before the forfeiture. The ornamental gardens, spread on several hectares, an original initiative for the time, created by Toma T., have totally disappeared. Many different constructions made in the 1990s, including a cooperative, have replaced it.
^ abcdefghijklm(in Romanian)Ministerul Culturii Și Cultelor, Institutul Național al Patrimoniului List of Historical Monuments of Prahova County – 2015.
^A typewritten version had already been available in Bucharest at the Union of Romanian Architects Library, and also at the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism Library, probably since 1955. Both books are available at the National Library of Romania, and at the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism. The Central University Library of Bucharest and the British Library also have a copy of the Fresco.
^(in French)Vers une architecture roumaine moderne – Translation: Towards a Romanian modern architecture.
^ abPartidul Naționalist-Democrat – Political party founded in 1910 by Nicolae Iorga.
^Legea privind Corpul Arhitecților din România Și a Registrului Arhitecților: – Union of Architects of Romania internet site – page "Istoric" . – University of Architecture and Urbanism Ion Mincu internet site – page "Istoric".
^(in Romanian) Source: Ploieștii newspaper, year VII, article of 12 May 1929.
^ ab(in Romanian) Source: Toma T. Socolescu, Autobiography upon admission to Rotary Club of Ploiești, Mesagerul rotarian, 24 April 1937, p. 87.
^(in Romanian) Source: Socolescu family archives / Paris – Sinaia , Decree of 25 June 1925. The appointment was made following a report by the Foreign Minister, Chancellor of the Order, reference No. 30578. The deed is in possession of the Socolescu family.
^(in Romanian) Source: Socolescu family archives / Paris, admission form to the Union of Architects of the Popular Republic of Romania – Minutes of 3 and 10 April 1953, membership card No. 311, 30 November 1953.
^(in Romanian) Article from the Păulești Gazette: "The illustrious architect Toma T. Socolescu receives the posthumous title of honorary citizen of the commune of Păulești"; decision of the municipal council of 24 April 2018: Decision No. 32 of the City Council of Păulești dated 24/04/2018 2018-08-25 at the Wayback Machine.
^Inclusion of the cross on the tombstone of Răzvadu de Sus: " Died, the servant of God Marula, Master of the Royal Court Lady of Messire Socol, former Grand Master of the Royal Court, daughter of the late Prince Mihai and Lady Tudora, in the year 1647, during the reign of Prince Ion Matei Basarab in 17 December, around the tenth hour of the night, solar calendar of the 21st year ", according to the Romanian translation done by G.D Florescu in 1944 from an original slavon version: " A răposat roaba lui Dumnezeu Marula clucereasa jupanului Socol fost mare clucer, fiică a răposatului Io Mihai Voevod și a jupînesei Tudora la anul 1647 în zilele lui Ion Matei Basarab voevod în luna decembrie 17 zile spre al zecilea ceas din noapte crugul solar temelia 21 ". (in Romanian) Source: G.D. Florescu, Idem, "Un sfetnic al lui Matei Basarab, ginerele lui Mihai Viteazul", in Revista istorică română, XI–XII, 1941–1942, pp. 88–89.
^(in Romanian) Front page of the issue No. 3616 28 March 1914.
^(in Romanian) Cathedral construction history on the Târgu Mureș Town hall internet site – cathedral history.
^(in Romanian) Source: Dimineața newspaper, Bucharest, "Celebration of architect Toma T. Socolescu", published on 12 July 1925.
^(in Romanian) Source: Informația Prahovei newspaper article of 22 December 2010: "136 de ani de învățământ comercial prahovean"
^(in Romanian) The name and location of this school has changed often since the origin of its establishment: Internet site of the National College Ion Luca Caragiale, page "Istoric"
^Casa corpului Didactic also called Căminul învățătorilor prahoveni.
^(in Romanian) Source: Școala și Vieața, revista Asociației Generale a Învățătorilor din România, an.X, nr. 1, sept. 1939, director T. D. Iacobescu, pp. 155–255 – Reference found on the "Testimony" (testimoniale) page, Prahova pragraph, from the Romania General Association of Teachers internet site: Asociația Generală a Învățătorilor din România.
^(in Romanian) Source: National archives of Prahova county – Ploiești City archives: File No. 42/1932, p. 72, invitation to the inauguration ceremony sent by the Teaching Body Society to the Mayor of the city. Note: researches of engineer Constantin Ilie, Ploiești, conducted from 26 October 2009 to 9 February 2010.
^(in Romanian)Ligii Județene a Sindicatelor Libere din Învățământ Prahova.
^(in Romanian) Source: Ploiești Teachers' Union History .
^(in Romanian) Source: National archives of Prahova county – Prahova Prefecture fund: File No. 97/1927, contract signed between the Prefecture and architects Toma T. Socolescu and Ernest Doneaud in 1923, along with other documents. Note: researches of engineer Constantin Ilie, Ploiești, conducted from 26 October 2009 to 9 February 2010.
^ ab(in Romanian) Source: National archives of Prahova county – Ploiești City archives: File No. 52.145/1912, pp. 1–40: Acts related to the construction of the market hall, contract No. 9088/913 established between the City and the architect Toma T. Socolescu; correspondences of 1912, 1913 and 1929; complete plans of the hall pre-project dating from 1913. Notes: researches of the Socolescu family conducted on 21 January 2010.
^(in Romanian) Source: National archives of Prahova county – Ploiești City archives: File No. 201/1930, pp. 4–5: Municipal Council Minutes No. 1 11 June 1930 in which was agreed the implementation of the Central Hall. Note: researches of engineer Constantin Ilie, Ploiești, conducted from 26 October 2009 to 9 February 2010.
^(in Romanian)Ploieștii newspaper, article " The Central Market hall construction " of 21 avril 1929, written by Eugeniu Ionescu.
^(in Romanian) Source: National archives of Prahova county – Ploiești City archives: File No. 92/1936, pp. 17–20: project (plans and holographic texts of the author) of a whosale hall, located behind the Central Market Hall. Note: researches of engineer Constantin Ilie, Ploiești, conducted from 26 October 2009 to 9 February 2010.
^(in Romanian) Lucian Vasile, RepublicaPloiesti.net, Ploiești, 2011, The old Ploiești and the location of the Union Place (Piață Unirii) : articles Gradina publica, Hora Taraneasca, De la Calea Campinii la Bulevardul Republicii and Bulevardul Independentei - Gradina publica, Hora Taraneasca, De la Calea Campinii la Bulevardul Republicii, Bulevardul Independentei as well as the article and photographs of the Piața Unirii - Centrul Ploiestiului – comparatie: anii '30 vs. azi.
^Gérard Joseph Duqué was at that time president of the Ploiești Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Source: Gérard Joseph Duqué, traversandu-și epoca (1866–1956), p. 105.
^(in Romanian) Source: Correspondences preserved in the archives of the Education Ministry - Historique du lycée National Nicolae Grigorescu publié dans le journal tribuna invatamantului.ro du 26.03.2019. - De la Liceul Dimitrie Barbu Știrbey la Colegiul Național Nicolae Grigorescu 100 de ani de istorie, 100 de ani de cunoaștere 2020-03-29 at the Wayback Machine.
^ ab(in Romanian)Toma T. Socolescu, Casa Hagi Prodan din Ploiești, studiu arheologic și releveu, BCMI, year IX, April to June 1916, pp. 82-90. The bulletin is available at the library of the University of Architecture and Urban Planning Ion Mincu - Library website: Direct link to the list of numbers BCMI (available in pdf).
^The architect wrote in 1938, in Arhitectura în Ploești, studiu istoric, that the objects were still there.
^(in Romanian)Nicolae Iorga, BCMI, Fasc. 59, Year XXII, 1929, p. 94 – Sources: Arhitectura în Ploești, studiu istoric, page 70 and Monografia orașului Ploești, p. 210.
^ ab(in Romanian)Toma T. Socolescu, Casa Dobrescu din Ploiești, BCMI, year XIX, April to June 1926, pp. 58-60. The bulletin is available at the library of the University of Architecture and Urbanism Ion Mincu - Library website: Direct link to the list BCMI numbers (available in pdf).
Institutul de Memorie Culturala – CIMEC Institutul de Memorie Culturala – Biserica Adormirea Maicii Domnului.
^In an administrative reorganization that occurred in 1968, the villages of Herești, Hotarele, Izvoarele and Scărișoara constituted a new town called Hotarele in the județ of Giurgiu (Giurgiu County).
^The exact address has been confirmed in September 2009 by the heir of the teacher, Filip Nicolae. He now lives in this ground floor house.
^(in Romanian) RepublicaPloiesti.net Strada Lipcani article and photographs.
^(in Romanian)Toma T. Socolescu, Fresca arhitecților care au lucrat în România în epoca modernă 1800 – 1925, Editura Caligraf Design, Bucharest, 2004, 1 vol., 209 pages, p. 46.
^Source: visit of the house by the Socolescu family, (France) in September 2010. The style is in deed "Socolescu".
^(in Romanian) The building has been nationalized by application of the 92/1950 decree – Direct link to the decree (Romanian Chamber of Deputies).
^(in Romanian) RepublicaPloiesti.net – Casa Gheorghe Bogdan article and photographs .
^F. Dragomirescu Family, living next to the building on Ștefan cel Mare street, at No. 37, in 2010.
^(in Romanian) Source: Issue of 9 March 2010 from the newspaper Adevărul de Ploiești Direct link to the article..
^(in Romanian) Article and TV reporting of Valea Prahovei TV entitled Nou monument de arhitectură în Ploiești or A new architectural monument in Ploiești, broadcast on 22 January 2011 – Mihai Bădulescu's Interview about his house.
^(in Romanian) Source: Mihai Bădulescu, Ploiești, August 2009.
^(in Romanian)Ministry of Culture and National Heritage: Classification decree No. 2561 4 October 2010.
De la Sala Odeon la Teatrul "Toma Caragiu", Lucian Vasile, RepublicaPloiesti.net, Ploiești, May 2016 – De la Sala Odeon la Teatrul "Toma Caragiu"
Toma T. Socolescu in viata cultural-artistica a Prahovei (LXXIII), Paul D. Popescu, newspaper Ziarul Prahova, Ploiești, 29 June 2011 issue – Toma T. Socolescu in viata cultural-artistica a Prahovei (LXXIII)
Ziarul Prahova Newspaper article of 20 March 1927.
A 1932 press article presenting the films that were played in Ploiești from 20 May – 5 June 1932, including the "Odeon" movie theater, Informatorul newspaper, Ploiești, 24 May 1932 issue – A 1932 press advert in Informatorul newspaper 2014-12-14 at the Wayback Machine.
^(in Romanian) Decree No. 303 of 3/11/1948 – The cinema Odeon, ploiești is listed in the attached table.
Femei prahovene de azi, de ieri, si mai demult, Paul D. Popescu, newspaper Ziarul Prahova, Ploiești, 7 December 2010 – Femei prahovene de azi, de ieri, si mai demult.
TOMA CARAGIU – UN ARTIST DE GENIU, Al.I. Badulescu, newspaper Ziarul Prahova, Ploiești, 21 August 2010 issue – TOMA CARAGIU – UN ARTIST DE GENIU.
Mrs. Revent, retired actress and Constantin Ilie (born on 18 March 1929 in Păulești), engineer in Ploiești, witness of the transformation works carried out in the 1950s.
^(in Romanian) Article and photographs of the Communist newspaper Flamura Prahovei from Mai 11, 1957. The issue is available in the old newspapers archives of the Central University Library of Bucharest.
^Bancă Centrală din Ploiești, a remarkable building designed by the architect I. Negrescu, based on the Charles Garnier's style, for Ghiță Ionescu and belonging to the banker Max Shapira. The bank had to leave during the bank crisis of 1929–1933. The area hosts a bakery and then a fabric store. Nationalized in 1950, the building will then be converted into a food store (Mercur) on the ground floor, and a shoemaker on the floor. Vintage photographs are available on RepublicaPloiesti.net: Bancă Centrală din Ploiești article and photographs.
^(in Romanian) Source: National Archives of Prahova County. Note: researches of Lucian Vasile, Ploiești, conducted in 2010.
^(in Romanian) Main source: Asociației Nationale Cultul Eroilor, filiala Prahova. However this information is not corroborated.
^(in Romanian) Source: book about the life of Gérard Joseph Duqué, Gérard Joseph Duqué, traversandu-și epoca (1866–1956), DUQUÉ Vincent G. and Paul D. Popescu, Editura Milenium III, Ploiești, 2006, 1 volume, 189 p. ISBN973-87924-5-2 and ISBN978-973-87924-5-6, pp. 134–135.
^(in Romanian) ceașcadecultură.ro – Photographs and article on the house.
^ abThe Romanian translation is Judecatoria, corresponding to the Magistrates' Court (England and Wales).
^(in Romanian) Source: National Archives of Prahova County – Prahova Prefecture fund: File No. 50/1924, pp. 1–16, drawings and plans signed by Socolescu and stamped by the Administration, dated 12 August 1924. Note: researches of engineer Constantin Ilie, Ploiești, conducted from 26 October 2009 to 9 February 2010.
^(in Romanian) Source: Romanian Ministry of Justice internet site – Courts of law portal Judecatoria Câmpina.
^(in Romanian) Source: National Archives of Prahova County – Prahova Prefecture fund: File No. 39/1923, pp. 1–21, According to T T. Socolescu's plans, the work started on 1 September 1921. Note: researches of engineer Constantin Ilie, Ploiești, conducted from 26 October 2009 to 9 February 2010.
^ ab(in French) Source: Le Style National Roumain – Construire une nation à travers l'architecture (1881–1945), Carmen Popescu, 2004, Presses Universitaires de Rennes – Simetria – p. 272.
^(in Romanian) Source: Monograph of Dumbrăvești town, p. 29: Link to the document 2012-01-18 at the Wayback Machine.
^(in Romanian) Source: Institutul de Memorie Culturala – CIMEC Institutul de Memorie Culturala – Biserica "Izvorul Tămăduirii și Nașterea Maicii Domnului".
^The commune of Scăeni has been merged with Boldești in 1968.
^ ab(in Romanian) Source: Monograph of Cristian Petru BĂLAN: Monografia orașului Boldești-Scăieni, Ploiești, Editura Premier, 2007, 253 pages, ISBN978-973-740-062-8, p. 99 – Monografia orașului Boldești-Scăieni.
^(in Romanian) Source: a commercial book of the Great Romania dating from 1925 available on the Library of Congress under reference Anuarul "Socec" al României-mari, vol.1 mentions on p. 272, the address of a tailor Weintraub S-sor & Irimia Weisberg, whose store is located in the building. Its sign is visible on an old photograph of the building. On the other hand, its style is very similar to that of Creditul Prahovei of Ploiești done around 1923. Another old picture shows an already blackened façade, so the photographic view has very likely been made several years after construction.
^(in Romanian)Ministerul Culturii Și Cultelor, Institutul Național al Patrimoniului : List of Historical Monuments in the City of Bucharest – 2015.
^(in Romanian)Grupul Scolar Economic, Administrativ și de Servicii "Barbu A. Stirbey", Buftea.
^(in Romanian) Photographs on the Romanian internet site "MNIR".
^(in Romanian)Ministerul Culturii Și Cultelor, Institutul Național al Patrimoniului: List of Monuments Historical Department Ilfov – 2015.
^Source: M. Pătrașcu, current owner of the house of Primaveri street. The other house on Decebal street is degraded and inhabited by Gypsies.
^(in Romanian) Source: National archives of Prahova county – Ploiești City archives: File No. 45/1922, pp. 1, 2, 72, 112: Letters and original drawings on layers from Toma T. Socolescu – Memorial act for the public garden inauguration on 24 May 1926. Note: researches of engineer Constantin Ilie, Ploiești, conducted from 26 October 2009 to 9 February 2010.
^(in Romanian) Source: National archives of Prahova county – Ploiești City archives: File No. 124/1937, pp. 1, 4, 5: The architect plans movie theaters and theaters, a library, an art gallery, exhibition halls, a museum, etc. Note: researches of engineer Constantin Ilie, Ploiești, conducted from 26 October 2009 to 9 February 2010.
^(in Romanian) Source: Socolescu family archives / Paris, Complete file of the project.
^(in Romanian) In Romanian: Buletinul Comisiunii Monumentelor Istorice, published between 1908 and 1945, under the initial direction of the historian Nicolae Iorga, the publishing will thereafter be stopped during 25 years.
^(in Romanian) Monastery images and comments on the internet site of
Crestinortodox.ro/.
County Directorate for Culture, Cults and National Cultural Heritage 2011-01-19 at the Wayback Machine.
^(in Romanian)Toma T. Socolescu, Biserica din Bălteni: Note arhitectonice, BCMI, anul 1, 1908, p 114-119. The journal is available at Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism library – Internet site of the Library: Direct link to the list of BCMI numbers (available in pdf). In the same issue, pp. 112-113 include the Descriptives notes of Nicolae Iorga.
^(in French)Toma T. Socolescu, Vers une architecture roumaine moderne, Extract of the Bulletin de l'École Polytechnique de Bucarest, year XII, Nos. 1 and 2, Tipărire Finanțe Și Industrie, Poetul Mecedonschi street No. 8, București, 1941, 5 pages.
^(in Romanian)Toma T. Socolescu, România Viitoare, Anul 1, No. 45, article "O ruină", Ploiești, 17 May 1915 – Source: Arhitectura în Ploești, studiu istoric, p. 9
^(in Romanian)Toma T. Socolescu, România Viitoare, Anul 1, No. 45, Ploiești, 17 May 1915 – Source: Arhitectura în Ploești, studiu istoric, p. 20.
^ abTranslation: In Transylvania, Travel notes of an architect.
^ abTranslation: City planning for all, for use of county and municipal councilor, architects, engineers, doctors, agents, agronomists, and all persons interested in a better condition of their city. – Original book of RAYMOND Jean, L'urbanisme à la portée de tous à l'usage des fonctionnaires et conseillers municipaux, des coloniaux (officiers, ingénieurs, architectes, administrateurs) et de toutes personnes s'intéressant au mieux être dans la cité, Editions Dunod, Preface of Renée Dautry, Paris, 1925, 187 pages.
^ ab(in French) Paul Juillerat, L'hygiène urbaine, Edition Ernest Leroux (Collection Urbanisme. Série I), Paris, 1921, 254 pages. The book includes an introductive study written by the architect from page 89 to 92. Paul Juillerat (1854–1935) was Head of the Technical Department of Sanitation and Housing in the Prefecture de la Seine (Paris). He proposed in 1894 a genuine system of health information on the 70,000 Parisian buildings, based on the principle of field surveys. He records the presence of equipment, cleanliness and state of maintenance of buildings communal areas. (in French) Source: L'enquête sanitaire urbaine à Paris en 1900 (Sanitary survey in Paris in 1900) by Yankel Fijalkow / Université de Paris 7 / CNRS. LOUEST – 2004.
^(in French) The scanned article is available at the Bibliothèque de la Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine: Direct link to the document.
^(in French) The scanned article is available at the Bibliothèque de la Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine: Direct link to the document.
^(in French) The scanned article is available at the Bibliothèque de la Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine: Direct link to the document.
^(in French) The article is available at the library of Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) but in restricted access: Link to the journal reference at the EPFL.
^Mayor of Ploiești from March 1939 to September 1940.
^(in Romanian) Led by the writer I. N. Theodorescu Arghezi, 2nd year, No. 67, 22 May 1916, entitled Cu prilejul exposiției de arhitectură T.T. Socolescu signed by Spiridon Cegăneanu.
^(in Romanian) Source: Virtutea newspaper article, 24 May 1930.
^ abcTranslation: Architecture in Ploiești, historical study.
(in Romanian) at the Library of the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urban Planning - ro/informare-documentare/biblioteca/virtuala/revista-arhitectura/ Page where all issues are available (pdf).
^(in Romanian) Library of the Ion Mincu Architecture and Urbanism University.
^(in Romanian) Central University Library Carol I of Bucharest (Biblioteca Centrală Universitară Carol I).
^(in Romanian) Arhivele Naționale ale României: Direcția Județeană Prahova a Arhivelor Naționale Link to the address of the Prahova archives department
^(in Romanian) Asociația pentru Educație și Dezvoltare Urbană and Resume of Lucien Vasile at IICCMER.
(in Romanian) at the County Library Nicolae Iorga of Ploiești.
(in Romanian) at the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism library – internet site: Direct link in the BUAUIM catalog, reference "clasificare" III 5037.
(in Romanian) at the National Library of Romania in the BNR catalog, reference: IV 71751.
(in French) at the Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg in the Strasbourg BNU catalog, reference "cote" BH.32.336.
^Translation: Fresco of the architects who have worked in Romania in the modern era from 1800 to 1925.
(in Romanian) at the County Library Nicolae Iorga of Ploiești.
(in Romanian) at the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism library – internet site: Direct link, in the BUAUIM catalog, references III 5036 and III 2892 for the copy dating from 1955.
(in Romanian) at the Central University Library of Bucharest (Biblioteca Centrală Universitară Carol I), reference UNITATEA CENTRALA: IV518874.
(in Romanian) at the National Library of Romania on the BNR catalog, reference "cota" IV 71752.
at the British Library in the BL catalog, reference YF.2006.b.1101.
^(in Romanian) A copy of the monograph, offered by the architect around 1958, is available at the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism library – Internet site of the Library: Direct link.
(in Romanian) at the County Library Nicolae Iorga of Ploiești.
(in Romanian) at the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism library – internet site: Direct link, in the BUAUIM catalog, references "clasificare" II 7787.
(in Romanian) at the National Library of Romania in the BNR catalog, reference: IV 96393.
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Toma T. Socolescu.
(in Romanian) RepublicaPloiesti.net is a site specializing in architectural history of the City of Ploiești. It contains numerous photographs of the city taken between the beginning of the twentieth and 1945. Several works of Toma T. Socolescu are presented.
(in Romanian) Association for Education and Urban Development. Association whose objectives are: the preservation and enhancement of urban heritage, the organization of educational and cultural activities in the field of history, sustainable development and the protection of human rights.
(in Romanian) Atunci și acum Blog allows comparison, over several Romanian cities, of yesterday and today's streets views and houses.
Historic Houses of Romania. A reference site on the finest Romanian homes, created by Valentin Mandache, Romanian architectural heritage expert. The site has also a Romanian version: (in Romanian) Case de Epoca.
(in Romanian) Three Romanian sites mainly dedicated to the history and architecture of the ancient Bucharest
– Bucureștii Vechi și Noi
– locuri în București...și istorii despre ele
– Unknown Bucharest
(in Romanian) County Museum of History and Archeology of Ploiești.
(in Romanian) National Institute of Historical Monuments: Institutul National Al Monumentelor Istorice
– Official list of historical monuments of Prahova county: Lista Monumentelor Istorice 2015.
– Official list of historical monuments of Ilfov county: Lista Monumentelor Istorice 2015.
– Official list of historical monuments of Bucharest: Lista Monumentelor Istorice 2015.
Internet site describing all historical monuments in Romania: Asociația Prietenii MNIR.
By the law of 21 December 2005 was established in Romania an official institution to investigate the crimes of communism. It is also allowed to refer before a court in sentencing and reparation: The Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of Romanian Exile. The destruction of the national heritage is also considered as a crime.
(in Romanian) Library of the Ion Mincu Architecture and Urbanism University.
(in French) Paris, Palais de Chaillot, Database of articles and publications available - Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine.
Association ProPatrimonio for safeguarding the architectural heritage of Romania.
(in Romanian) Salvați Bucureștiul (Save Bucharest): an association that fights to preserve Bucharest against the frequent destruction of its historical heritage.
January 01, 1970
toma, socolescu, july, 1883, ploiești, october, 1960, bucharest, romania, romanian, architect, influencers, romanian, architecture, from, early, 20th, century, through, world, devoted, whole, life, region, prahova, particularly, city, ploiești, will, also, con. Toma T Socolescu 20 July 1883 in Ploiești 14 October 1960 in Bucharest Romania was a Romanian architect He was one of the influencers of Romanian architecture from the early 20th century through World War II He devoted his whole life to his region of Prahova and particularly to the city of Ploiești He will also contribute greatly to the cultural life of his country He devoted his whole life to the development of Prahova County and in particular the city of Ploiești founding the Nicolae Iorga Library and the Prahova County Art Museum Ion Ionescu Quintus contributing at the same time to the cultural life of Romania Among the loieștimost important designed constructions are the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist the Halles Centrales the Palace of Justice the Palace of Business Schools the Bank of Credit Prahova Creditul Prahovei and the Scala cinema Toma T SocolescuToma T Socolescu in his youth Born 1883 07 20 20 July 1883PloieștiDied14 October 1960 1960 10 14 aged 77 BucharestNationalityRomanianAlma materIon Mincu UniversityOccupationArchitectYears active1905 1955ChildrenToma Barbu Socolescu Mircea Socolescu Parent s Toma N Socolescu Alexandrina NicolauRelativesIon N Socolescu uncleAwardsFirst prize in the contest for the Palace of the Municipality of Bucharest 1925 Honorary citizen of the city of Ploiești Member of the Order of the Crown of Romania to the rank of officerPracticeArchitecture urban planning archeology university education culture politics journalismBuildingsCentral hall and St John cathedral of PloieștiProjectsCity planning of Ploiești city radius increaseDesignBrancovenesc style Neo Romanian style He was mayor of Ploiești between December 1919 and March 1920 and in 1927 he moved to Păulești a municipality of which he was mayor between 1938 and 1945 and whose infrastructure he developed During the Communist period refusing to join the Communist Party and considered a class enemy his family was persecuted by the Securitate he has been expelled from his house in Păulești and all his properties have been confiscated He moved to Bucharest where he died in 1960 Contents 1 Biography 1 1 Education and travels 1 1 1 World War I 1 2 Architectural and urbanistic work 1 2 1 In Ploiești 1 2 2 In Păulești 1 3 Cultural and artistic work 1 3 1 Regional Museum of Prahova 1 3 2 Popular University Nicolae Iorga 1 3 3 Popular Library Nicolae Iorga 1 3 4 Museum of Fine Arts 1 3 5 Other cultural activities and foundations in Prahova 1 4 Communist period 1 5 Legacy 2 Official duties titles and public responsibilities 3 Genealogy 4 Architectural contests 5 Architectural achievements 5 1 In Ploiești 5 2 In Prahova county 6 Archaeology and heritage conservation 7 Other achievements 7 1 Ploiești 7 2 Prahova county 7 3 Bucharest 7 4 Other counties 8 Attributed works non exhaustive list 9 Unbuilt works 10 Publications 11 Newspaper articles 12 Painting and architecture exhibitions 13 Sources 14 Bibliography 15 Notes and references 16 External linksBiography edit nbsp Sketch of a monumental entry Extract from Toma T Socolescu s sketches notebook Toma T Socolescu marked the face of modern Romanian architecture until the Second World War both by leaving a substantial legacy both in terms of remarkable constructions foundations of a cultural nature and literature related to Romanian architecture and its evolution It is still a benchmark in the world of architecture and art More than a dozen of his works have been classified as historic monuments Education and travels edit Son grandson and nephew of an architect his career choice was not easy After a happy and fulfilled childhood his father suddenly disappeared on November 22 1897 then his mother three years later the same day b 1 he became an orphan at the age of 17 and in charge of his four brothers and sisters Toma T has a great talent for drawing and devotes his free time to drawing during his last three years of high school Eager to know he took advantage of his father s large library and inherited his drawing talent b 2 Despite the catastrophic financial situation of the family the dispersion of his brothers and sisters taken in by the Socolescu uncles and cousins b 3 and the unfavorable economic situation for architects at the end of the 19th century in Romania b 4 he succeeded in forcing destiny and following his passion for art and architecture taking advantage of free higher education in this time b 4 He finished high school in 1901 at the lyceum St Peter and St Paul of Ploiești and then enrolled at the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism then known as the National School of Architecture He was a student of Ion Mincu the leading expert in Romanian architecture at the beginning of the 20th century In June 1911 he graduated with honors specializing in civil and religious architecture and Romanian archaeology He returned to this institution to teach architectural theory from 1929 to 1947 He began his career as a designer at the Central Post Office in Bucharest in 1904 In 1906 he was hired as a designer by a large workshop of architects dedicated to building the infrastructure of the Romanian General Exhibition of 1906 Carol Park was specially designed for this event by the French landscape architect Edouard Redont The exhibition ran from 6 June to 23 November 1906 in Bucharest The event was organized by the Romanian Government in honor of the 40 year reign of Carol I of Romania This opportunity put him in contact with leading artists and architects of the time and is credited with having a decisive impact on the rest of his career who His travels to Vienna Constantinople and Budapest in 1913 to Italy 15 December 1923 to 20 February 1924 and January 1937 and to France represented significant milestones in his life In these places he found inspiration for his work in Romania World War I edit He was drafted into the 47th Infantry Regiment in 1916 where he was assigned to the Bucharest transport regiment and sent to the Danube Defense Group Grupul Apărării Dunarii b 5 There with other architects and engineers he was responsible for bridge demolition operations during the Moldavia retreat He built hospitals and sanitation facilities hoping to combat typhus which was wreaking havoc on the Romanian army Around 1917 he joined a battalion of mountain troops The retreat of the Romanian army to Moldavia gave him the chance to discover the rural and religious artistry of various Romanian regions Clutching his notebook he produced many drawings of folk art and traditional architectural styles that would later inspire him Two reproductions of his watercolors of houses in Chișinău Bessarabia were published in 1926 d 1 In 1941 he wrote an article on the Romanian ancient art of Bessarabia and illustrated it with his own watercolors d 2 Architectural and urbanistic work edit Socolescu was one of the leading advocates and a staunch defender of the Romanian national architectural style also referred to as Neo brancovenesc or Neo Romanian style He was inspired particularly by the Brancovenesc style He worked to improve Ploiești s appearance and to develop public buildings for all of county of Prahova His strong interest in archaeology led him to study and preserve many old houses and churches and to publish essays and surveys on this subject nbsp Facade sketch Extract from the Toma T Socolescu s sketch notebook He played a key role in the management of the Society of Romanian Architects 1 and participated in his hometown s cultural and social life He served as Mayor from December 1919 to March 1920 The artistic component of architecture was fundamental to him and he was very critical of architecture that was unrelated to art especially to traditional Romanian art He decried a sharp increase in the number of architecture students lacking the necessary artistic talent In his memoirs he chastised architects active from the 1920s through the 1940s who according to him neglected architecture s artistic foundations He also denounced the projects which took only land use into account and noted the lack of hygiene in houses built between 1930 and 1950 while the buildings in France Austria and Germany of the same period were much more advanced In his editorials he wrote against property speculation and the immediate search for profit that led to poor construction and soulless buildings b 6 In The Architecture of Ploiești A Historical Study 2 1938 Socolescu wrote We live in a confusing time in which it seems that nobody knows what he wants From this is derived this chaos of so called modern buildings resulting in a time when science engineering calculations and a quasi superficiality of architectural knowledge have overtaken a sacred beauty that was cultivated over the centuries that have preceded us standardizing everything and thus creating cold and clumsy works of civilization on the ruins of those of culture those which have given us the tradition and spirit of this people raised in the cult of beauty a 1 In Ploiești edit He served as mayor of Ploiești immediately after World War I as well as the county s chief architect b 7 He had to handle all major supply problems in the city He was the primary instigator of the expansion of the city s boundaries to include the refineries located in the periphery that allowed the city to benefit from the tax base they provided The budget tripled and reached a level that allowed large infrastructure projects He planned major changes in the city including the construction of the Central Market Hall of Ploiești c 1 and acted as urban planner Many architectural projects that were not completed during his short term were finished by the mayors that succeeded him Throughout his life he improved town planning and hygiene for the city of Ploiești From 1932 to 1935 in collaboration with architects Ion Davidescu and S Vasilescu he developed a systematic plan c 2 of the city This plan 3 gave more weight to green space traffic and railway and generally to allow for orderly growth The plan provides for urban development and optimal population density allocation for public and cultural institutions schools and green spaces It also details the rules that defined land use plans He developed similar plans for the towns of Campina and Mizil 4 These projects were enforced until the Communist takeover in 1945 citation needed In Păulești edit nbsp Duque s manor in Păulești He settled into the commune of Păulești in 1927 He was its mayor between February 1938 and January 1945 a term interrupted by the Legionary Movement regime between November 1940 and February 1942 His second term was shortened by the Rădescu government in January 1945 5 In five and a half years he built several buildings bridges and public monuments including the town hall the primary school and the public baths He created landscaped areas for the municipal park called Parcul cu castani the park with chestnut A chestnut tree lined avenue cut across the park and led to the cemetery He had hoped that an amusement park and an ornamental pond c 3 could be built to provide a large relaxing green space Păulești is located 7 km from Ploiești The project began around 1930 but was not completed before the Second World War It was revived under the name of Parc Pădurea Păulești in 1995 After many legal disputes between the city and the construction company the project was halted and then re activated in July 2007 6 Work resumed in 2009 7 In 2007 in recognition of the benefits provided by the architect the commune college was renamed Arhitect T T Socolescu 8 In May 2011 another ceremony was held in his honour unveiling a bust in his image that was installed in the school s courtyard 9 Cultural and artistic work edit To support the culture life of his city he launched initiatives that equipped Prahova County with its first museum and cultural institutions Supported by Ploiești and Nicolae Iorga he founded its first history museum its first public library and its first museum of fine arts Regional Museum of Prahova editIn 1914 aided by Nicolae Iorga to appeal for the intervention of Ion Duca then Minister of Education he saved an historic house dating from the 18th century from destruction b 8 preserving it in its original form the coppersmith dealer house of Hagi Prodan Casa Hagi Prodan In 1919 as County Architect in Chief he founded a small regional ethnographic and religious art museum a 2 in that house It was the city s first museum b 7 initially called Muzeul Județului or Muzeul Prahovei a 3 nbsp Balcony illustration Extract from Toma T Socolescu s sketchbook After a public appeal and fundraising campaign b 9 he collected art from across the county with the help of priests and teachers The museum was stocked with furniture clothing and icons forgotten in the region s attics During the period 1940 1944 the museum s inventory was eventually lost or stolen citation needed and replaced with other objects collected by Professor Nicolae Simache assisted by Socolescu Known as the Muzeul Hagi Prodan since 1953 the museum was renamed on 18 June 2005 Casa de Targoveț din Secolul al XVIII lea al XIX lea 10 Popular University Nicolae Iorga edit As a political and cultural companion of Nicolae Iorga Socolescu actively participated in Summer courses Known from 1920 as Universitate Populara N Iorga that Iorga established in 1911 in Vălenii de Munte In addition to completing the plans of the classrooms b 8 Socolescu regularly participated as a speaker along with other professors and prominent figures from Romanian cultural and political life b 10 Socolescu was a regular speaker among other professors and prominent figures of Romanian cultural and political life The renown and popularity grew to such an extent that the openings of the Summer courses attracted leading politicians and ministers King Ferdinand of Romania Prince Carol II of Romania and Princess Elisabeth of Wied attended Iorga s lectures On 17 August 1938 Maria Tănase sang for the closure 11 Popular Library Nicolae Iorga edit In 1921 he founded the Biblioteca Populară Nicolae Iorga 12 originally installed on the municipal baths right wing 13 Heading the Management Committee he expanded the library collection with help from donors b 11 In the same place on the ground floor he developed an art gallery by collecting Western European artists reproductions as well as original Romanian oils and watercolors Inaugurated on 20 March 1921 it originally held 1 250 volumes By 1937 more than 11 000 books and more than 3 500 publications were available free of charge to its 8 000 registered readers Socolescu donated over 250 volumes from his collection a 4 Museum of Fine Arts edit He founded and developed an art gallery by collecting reproductions of Western Europe artists as well as original Romanian oils and watercolors a 5 on the ground floor of the same building For this purpose he was helped by a group of Ploiești intellectuals including lawyer art collector and politician Ion Ionescu Quintus b 12 c 4 the historian Dumitru Munteanu Ramnic as well as by city mayors including Ștefan Moțoiu who provided substantial financial support Created around 1930 within the framework of the Cultural Foundation Nicolae Iorga 14 the pinacotheca subsequently became the Ploiești Art Museum It was inaugurated by Socolescu in November 1931 15 The wopening speech is reproduced in extenso in Amintiri b 13 It was only in 1965 that the museum would be moved to the current building the Ghiță Ionescu palace former County Prefecture In Arhitectura in Ploești studiu istoric a 6 and Monografia orașului Ploești appear photographs a list of all the exhibited painters as well as some remarkable works present in the museum in 1938 The latter was then installed in the old municipal baths 16 Some oils and watercolors by Toma T Socolescu which the latter donated 17 to the museum still exist as do some works by the artist Toma Gh Tomescu 18 but are currently on display in the museum Other cultural activities and foundations in Prahova edit Socolescu founded a library and museum in Păulești in the 1930s The library was looted during the Second World War It continues to operate and displays a work of lose friend Romanian painter Toma Gh Tomescu 4 19 He organized and funded training in viticulture and fruit crops for the commune on his own farm located at Socolescu manor Socolescu painted many watercolors that met some success He built a house for Tomescu in the latter s hometown of Vălenii de Munte in 1926 1927 20 Socolescu bought many of Tomescu s works that he later donated to Muzeul Prahovei Communist period edit He refused to integrate into the Communist sponsored organization of architects and was considered as an enemy of the people and was persecuted by the Communist authorities His property was nationalized in the 1950s He was not allowed to practice as an architect and was expelled from his Păulești estate on 21 February 1952 He moved in with his son Toma Barbu Socolescu in Bucharest The Socolescu family was harassed by the Securitate almost until his death in 1960 Left without an income he worked until the age of 74 at the Institute of Urban Planning and Construction ISPROR 21 From 1953 within the framework of Institutul Central pentru sistematizarea orașelor și regiunilor ICSOR he was seconded to the Department of Historical Monuments for four years b 14 On 12 February 1957 he was forced to retire on a reduced pension b 14 Socolescu nevertheless continued to protest projects that he considered to be against his idea of architecture 22 Socolescu published many writings b 15 He deliberately did not claim credit for all of his works To protect other families his memoirs omitted some details during the communist regime citation needed The Securitate particularly attacked wealthy families of the interwar period and seized their property and jailed many Romanians Legacy edit Toma T Socolescu is still studied at the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism and is still considered as an architectural eminence in Romania Until recently 23 no reference to Socolescu was visible in the streets of Ploiești or the capital A Technical High School in Ploiești is named after his father 24 while a Technical College for architecture and public works in Bucharest is named after his uncle A street is named after his father in Ploiești However since 21 October 2010 and the 50th anniversary of his death he has come out of oblivion Other ceremonies 25 were held from 2009 to 2011 including the installation of a bust 26 in front of the Central Market Hall of Ploiești and the naming of the adjacent park for the architect On 29 September 2010 Socolescu was posthumously awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of the City of Ploiești 27 nbsp His friend Ion Ionescu Quintus at the Păulești manor around 1930 any of his works were destroyed partly by the American bombardments of 1943 44 that were especially harsh 28 in Ploiești and more were razed by Nicolae Ceaușescu s policy of systematization 29 that removed all traces of the soul of Romanian architecture Many surviving properties were returned to him in a degraded state 30 such as his manor house in Păulești 31 or his building in Ploiești which was disfigured during the 1950s 32 His house of Păulești 33 is on the regional list of Historic Monuments 34 after 45 years of neglect by the state Built by another architect with no link to the Socolescu style it was returned to the heiress in a much damaged state Stripped of its land and of its ornamental garden organized by Socolescu it lost most of its original beauty and harmony The estate was sold by the family in August 2010 nbsp A gathering of friends and family in the manor of Păulești in 1937 His Ploiești apartment house suffered badly during 1944 It was nationalized in 1950 and disfigured by a rehabilitation It was partially returned to the family in 2006 32 Most of the finest edifices of Ploiești including several built by the Socolescus were demolished in the 1970s and 1980s under pretext of structural weakness due to the earthquakes of 1940 and 1977 After 1949 Socolescu devoted his spare time to his memoirs He continued to work on the project until 1960 In 2004 after more than fifty years of neglect by various Romanian institutions his family published the first part of his memoirs called Amintiri the only part he had finished which covers the period from his birth up to 1924 35 The Fresco of architects who have worked in Romania in the modern era from 1800 to 1925 a far more important work was completed in 1955 and also published in 2004 by his family 36 His book dedicated to the architecture in Ploiești Arhitectura in Ploești studiu istoric published in 1937 was recognized by the Romanian Academy 4 The first page of a small booklet he wrote in French in 1941 37 sums up his credo 38 La puissance creatrice de notre peuple est completement prouvee par son bel art populaire plusieurs fois millenaire ainsi que par l architecture plus recente de nos eglises habitations princieres et voivodales La Creation etant le but supreme d un peuple c est par notre apport personnel que nous justifierons notre existence de demain En Architecture il ne faut pas a tout prix rechercher le nouveau et nous garder des formules sacro saintes comme par exemple il faut etre de son temps L architecte ne peut rester en arriere il a au contraire pour mission d entrainer ses contemporains dans sa marche vers le progres L architecture ne peut etre internationale elle doit etre conservatrice et suivre evolutivement la chaine des traditions d un peuple La construction et la decoration formant l une le squelette l autre l enveloppe doivent se completer et satisfaire aux deux exigences imperieuses la logique et le sentiment Un grand penseur europeen H Keyserling croit que notre peuple est appele a ressusciter l art byzantin qui est a la base de notre Eglise et de notre architecture et que par une reprise de nos traditions d art de l esprit duquel a jailli l art de notre passe nous devons diriger nos pas vers une renaissance moderne de nos arts plastiques Toma T Socolescu died on October 14 1960 in Bucharest at the home of his son Toma Barbu Socolescu leaving the second part of his memoirs unfinished period after 1924 He is buried in the Socolescu family vault at Bellu Cemetery in Bucharest Official duties titles and public responsibilities editSocolescu had a limited political commitment His service as mayor municipal councilor and deputy allowed him to advance cultural urban planning or architecture projects His links with Nicolae Iorga led him to take responsibility within the Nationalist Democrat Party 39 He developed relationships and friendships with people from other political sides such as Ion Ionescu Quintus from the National Liberal Party His only national political action was his support for the bill regarding the Organization of the Corps of Architects and the Romanian Register of Architects in 1932 Adopted by parliament a royal decree of application was signed on 15 July 1932 40 His official positions include Professor of Theory of Architecture at the Bucharest National Higher School of Architecture 1927 1947 Chief Architect of the Prahova County 1919 1920 Mayor of Ploiești from December 1919 March 1920 c 5 Councilor of Ploiești 10 March 1926 20 March 1929 under Mayor Ion Georgescu Obrocea c 6 Prahova County deputy c 7 under the government of Nicolae Iorga 19 April 1931 6 June 1932 within the Nationalist Democrat Party 39 Vice president of the Nationalist Democrat Party from May 1929 41 Mayor of the commune of Păulești February 1938 November 1940 February 1942 January 1945 5 Awarded the Order of the Cross Regina Maria for his military buildings during the first world war 42 Work award first class for his teaching May 1927 upon the opening of the Palace of Business Schools main body in Ploiești i 42 Member of the Order of the Crown of Romania to the rank of officer by order of King Ferdinand I of Romania in 1925 43 Ploiești Rotary Club member from April 1937 Founder and Chairman of the Cultural Foundation Nicolae Iorga 14 in the 1930s Selection Committee member of the Romanian architecture journal Arhitectura in the beginning of the 1940s Member of the Society of Romanian Architects 1 Member of the Union of Architects of the Popular Republic of Romania 1953 44 Honorary citizen of the City of Ploiești posthumously since September 2010 27 Honorary citizen of the Municipality of Păulești posthumously since May 2018 45 Genealogy editThe Socol family of Berivoiul Mare formerly part of Făgăraș or Făgăraș land is a branch of the Socol family of Muntenia which lived in the county of Dambovița A Socol great boyar and son in law of Mihai Viteazul 1557 1601 had two religious organizations in Dambovița county still existing Cornești and Răzvadu de Sus He built their churches and another one in the suburb of Targoviște This boyar married Marula daughter of Tudora din Popești sister of Prince Antonie Vodă Marula was recognized by Mihai Viteazul as his illegitimate daughter following an extra marital liaison with Tudora Marula is buried in the cemetery of Răzvadu de Sus church 46 Iorga found Socol ancestors among the founders of the town of Făgăraș b 16 b 17 Around 1846 five Socol brothers came to Muntenia from Berivoiul Mare in the Land of Făgăraș where the name of Socol is widespread It is told that an ancestor of Socol would come to Muntenia including the region of Targoviște home of the family Socol being so far next to Targoviște the Socol valley and their two religious endowments Răzvadul de Sus and Cornești a 7 One of the brothers was architect Nicolae Gh Socol 1872 He settled in Ploiești and named himself Socolescu He married Iona Săndulescu from the Sfantu Spiridon suburb He had a daughter died in infancy and four sons a 8 two of whom became major architects Toma N and Ion N Family TreeNicolae Gh Socol 18 1872 architectIoana Săndulescu Alexandrina Nicolau 1860 1900 Toma N Socolescu 1848 1897 chief architect of PloieștiNicolae N Socolescu timber merchantGhiță N Socolescu artist painter dead during his graduate studiesIon N Socolescu 1856 1924 architect Florica Tănescu 1887 1969 Toma T Socolescu 1883 1960 professor architectFlorica T SocolescuSmaranda T SocolescuIoan T SocolescuCoralia Ioana Margareta T Socolescu Mircea Socolescu 1907 1978 settled in France in 1945 married without childrenToma Gheorghe Barbu Socolescu 1909 1977 architectIrena Gabriela Vasilescu 1910 1993 artist painter teacher Mihai Ștefan Marc Socolescu 1942 1994 teacherMaria Lois 1942 2021 teacher Laura Socolescu 1967 settled in France doctor of Science and tango teacherArchitectural contests editSocolescu won many prizes in architectural design competitions First prize for model plan for a small wooden church with one steeple and for a model plan for a bigger one with several steeples Pantocratul 1907 b 18 Second prize for the Normal School of Buzău b 19 The first prize was not awarded because only two architects participated First prize in the contest for the unification of the Palace of the newspapers Adevărul and Dimineața facades More than 30 architects participated in the contest in 1914 Socolescu s project was published in Dimineața 47 and in Arhitectura in 1916 and 1924 d 3 The construction was never built because of the First World War A different facade was built in the 1920s First prize in the contest for building the Creditul Prahovei of Ploiești around 1923 Pictures and plans of the bank were published in Arhitectura in 1926 d 4 First prize in the contest for the Palace of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Ploiești probably around 1920 following the acquisition of adjacent buildings by the Chamber of Commerce The work was only partially completed The Chamber was abolished by the Communists in 1949 after 84 years of activity The palace was destroyed during the communist period First prize in the contest of the Orthodox cathedral of the town of Targu Mureș in 1924 The cathedral was constructed according to the design of another architect who had lost the competition 48 First prize in the contest for the Palace of the Municipality of Bucharest in 1925 The project was published in Arhitectura in 1926 d 5 This success was the opportunity to celebrate Socolescu in Ploiești 49 It was never built First prize in the contest of the Casino of the Astra Romană Refinery in Ploiești It was published in the July October 1937 issue of Arhitectura d 6 The project was never built First prize in the contest of the covered market of the town of Predeal The project was not executed First prize in the contest for the Labour Palace of the City of Ploiești The project was not executed Architectural achievements editSocolescu signed his works on the rooftops by a stylized reversed lily often made of zinc or copper The signature is visible on many of his works nbsp The Palace of Business Schools became the National College Ion Luca Caragiale in 1948 In Ploiești edit Palace of Business Schools 50 at now 98 Gheorghe Doja street Construction was carried out between 1924 and 1938 a 9 It hosted business schools for boys from 1938 51 under the name Liceul Comercial Spiru Haret until the communists came to power in 1948 It now houses the National College Ion Luca Caragiale 52 It is classified as an historical monument 34 nbsp Former Primary teachers house of Ploiești or Casa corpul Didactic Primary teachers house of Ploiești 53 The building is located at 8 Ștefan cel Mare street Its construction began in 1925 and was probably completed in 1931 54 It was inaugurated on 2 October 1932 55 It was affected by the 1940 and 1977 earthquakes Integrating the facilities for teachers and their families it housed a theater cinema a bookstore and a printing press in the basement a 10 It no longer houses the teachers Nationalized by the Communists in 1962 it was recovered by the County League of Prahova Free Teaching Unions 56 in a decrepit state 57 It was sold several times and underwent rehabilitation from 2010 to 2013 The building must be converted into a polyclinic It is classified as an historical monument 34 Courthouse designed in collaboration with French architect Ernest Doneaud Implementation began before the war a 9 under the prefect Luca Elefterescu Socolescu was nominated executive architect responsible for all construction from 1923 until its completion in 1932 58 This edifice became the Palace of Culture in 1953 while still hosting the appeal court Weakened and damaged by the war and the earthquake of 1977 it was strengthened in the 1980s Its restoration resumed in 2006 It was published in Arhitectura in 1924 d 7 The palace has been classified as an historical monument 34 nbsp The Courthouse transformed into the Palace of Culture Central Market Hall of Ploiești is a masterpiece a 11 The construction contract was signed in 1912 based on the municipal council decision of 9 November 1912 chaired by Mayor Scarlat Orăscu 59 Work began in June 1930 60 and was completed in 1935 c 8 Its construction is based on the principles of hygiene and logistics and echoed across Europe Socolescu carried out a study tour in Vienna and Budapest in the winter of 1913 b 20 before starting the project and undertook two others during its execution He visited Geneva Basel Stuttgart Frankfurt am Main Leipzig Munich and Breslau He completed his study by visiting the food floors of department stores in Berlin the halls of Reims Lyon and Dieppe in France the fruit hall of Milan in Italy and finally the halls of Budapest in Hungary In the article he wrote for French magazine La Construction moderne in September 1936 Socolescu detailed his project its objectives and its layout and operations The Market Hall eventually became the symbol of the City of Ploiești Partially damaged by the bombing it was consolidated in the 1980s The project nearly failed due to new mayor Ion Georgescu Obrocea who in 1929 gave the project to another company although Socolescu had had a contract since 1913 Socolescu successfully challenged this new contract thanks to his friend lawyer Grigore Ivănceanu 61 b 21 59 The whole edifice is classified as an historical monument 34 On 27 February 1936 Socolescu officially introduced a construction project that was never realized 62 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Central Market Hall nbsp The former Creditul Prahovei Creditul Prahovei at the intersection of Republicii boulevard with Take Ionescu street facing what was at that time the central square of the city Piață Unirii 63 It later became the Banca Romanească Since the 1990s the building houses the Banca Comercială Romană or BCR The work was designed around 1923 and probably completed in 1926 Photographs and plans of the bank were published in the Arhitectura journal in 1926 d 4 The building is classified as an historical monument 34 Cinematograph Scala still visible is sited on Traian Moșoiu street It was originally a brewery a 9 constructed on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce of Ploiești around 1933 64 Decommissioned and abandoned in the 2000s the place was renovated in 2009 2010 nbsp The Scala cinematograph St John the Baptist Cathedral Catedrala Sfantul Ioan Botezătorul In 1912 Socolescu had worked on the old St John the Baptist church According to his plans the main dome was elevated 5 meters c 9 The work was carried out between 1923 c 10 and 1939 The cathedral honors the dead of the First World War and is part of a national religious momentum The steeple is classified as an historical monument 34 Only the 60 meter high 200 ft bell tower and the first part of the work were completed a 12 c 11 stopped by the war The project for the rest of the building that would replace the existing church remained unfulfilled until work resumed in 2008 inspired by Socolescu s plans The facade is particularly unique to the time and two monumental statues line the entrance The interior s furniture is remarkable The pre project and the plans of the cathedral were published in the 1925 and 1926 issues of Arhitectura d 8 nbsp nbsp Cathedral St John the Baptist in Ploiești In Prahova county edit nbsp Boys High School of Campina Socolescu designed the boys high school of Campina 65 at 4 Doftanei avenue Plans were realized and approved by the Ministry of Education in 1926 nbsp Boys High School of Campina Its central part as well as the wing facing Doftanei avenue were built between 1928 and 1929 The second wing facing the Mihai Eminescu street the Carrare marble staircase the marble interior ornaments the carved oak internal doors in the main hall as well as the wrought iron ones from the outside were carried out between 1932 and 1942 It was damaged by the earthquake of 1940 and by the bombing the Mihai Eminescu wing and the gym were destroyed The wing was rebuilt in 1957 1958 The 1977 earthquake left the building unusable The building now houses the Nicolae Grigorescu National College formerly named in 1930 Liceul Dimitrie Barbu Stirbey 66 Archaeology and heritage conservation editSocolescu had pursued a specialty in Romanian archaeology He was interested in architectural history and preservation of architectural heritage In addition to the renovation of old churches he worked several times with Nicolae Iorga from 1919 onwards to protect remarkable ancient edifices His projects included Renovation around 1919 of the house of the boilermaker trader Hagi Prodan built in 1785 It is regarded as a typical residence of a Ploiești merchant in the 17th and 19th century 67 It is classified as an historical monument 34 Hagi Prodan house was the first History museum of the City of Ploiești founded by Socolescu After being renamed and dedicated to other purposes the museum is now 23 called Casa de Targoveț din Secolul al XVIII lea al XIX lea museum 10 Rediscovery and repair of a small and archaic ruined church in Ploeștiori or Ploieștiori in the commune of Blejoi around 1919 1920 dating from the first half of the 18th century Socolescu saved icons and religious art objects that he placed in the County Museum a 3 Originally installed in the Hagi Prodan house the Muzeul judetului no longer exists under that name The location of these objects is unknown as of 2010 68 They may be in one of the museums gathered in 1955 in the Muzeul județean de Istorie și Arheologie Prahova institution to which the Hagi Prodan House is now attached In 1929 a 13 Socolescu brought Nicolae Iorga there Iorga uncovered ancient murals hidden beneath the coating A related article was written by the historian in the Bulletin of the Historical Monuments Commission 69 The church baptized Sfantu Visarion church is classified as an historical monument 34 In October 2010 the ruins were abandoned and endangered The land where they are located was sold in the 1990s by the mayor to a private owner Archaeological studies and topographic map of the Dobrescu house Casa Dobrescu in Ploiești a typical house of merchants from the beginning of the 19th century 70 a 14 Located at 1 Kutuzov street the house became the Ion L Caragiale Museum on 30 January 1962 71 Sfantu Pantelimon church located at 71 Democrației street The work was done over a period of 24 years between 1912 and 1936 due to funding constraints c 12 Father Ene Dumitrescu was the initiator of the project He asked Socolescu to develop the project The earthquake of 1940 caused the collapse of the great tower The 1977 quake damaged the walls Two phases of reconstruction and consolidation took place in 1946 and between 1977 and 1994 including the renovation of frescos 72 Sfantu Haralambie church at 65 Mărășești street Between 1931 and 1932 Socolescu made renovations restorations and exterior embellishments He radically changed the appearance of the church by rebuilding the small towers of the facade and adding a brancovenesc style porch It also received a reinforced concrete ceiling The church experienced consolidations and changes after the earthquakes In 1979 the parish priest built a great tower which existed previously and burned in 1925 c 13 This addition was made without the approval of civil authorities 73 nbsp Saint Pantelimon church nbsp Neo brancovenesc porch of Saint Haralambie nbsp Another view of the same porch Religious works of Toma T Socolescu Reconstruction in 1937 1938 of the Ploeștiori a 15 or Ploieștiori church on the outskirts of Ploiești about the Valeni barrier near the Vega refinery The church has undergone several renovations It already had a concrete structure that collapsed during the 1977 earthquake According to the parish priest 74 in September 2009 a monograph on the church was written Partial reconstruction of the Măgula village church in Tomșani commune between 1933 and 1938 The new church was inaugurated in November 1938 75 The altar and the porch of the church are classified as historical monuments 34 From 1953 to 1957 in the Department of Historical Monuments he worked on the restoration of sites and monuments b 8 including the Brebu Monastery Prahova Huniade Castle of Timișoara the Church of the Holy Emperors Constantine and Helen Sfanta Impărați Constantin și Elena of Targoviște the churches of Ploeștiori or Ploieștiori in Ploiești suburbs and Heresti Ilfov 76 as well as other Gothic churches of Transylvania Other achievements editPloiești edit Villa of pharmacist N Hogaș brother of the writer Calistrat Hogaș Gh Lazăr street During its construction Socolescu reserved the ceiling of the lounge for a future fresco by Tomescu a 16 Built around 1907 the house was destroyed during World War II This was Socolescu s first work Pasapeanu House b 22 a small house on now Barbu Dela Vrancea street built around 1908 This is his smallest work House b 22 on 31 Vlad Tepes street 77 that was made around 1908 House b 8 on București avenue near the South Railway Station Gara de Sud built around 1908 The house was destroyed by the Communists to make room for the Plants of 1 May Rental property a 17 on Lipscani street probably built about 1910 razed by Communists 78 Orăscu residential house at 18 Independenței boulevard c 14 Built around 1920 in the Art Nouveau fashionable French style of the time Its interior was luxurious The house was confiscated by the Communists then turned into a popular canteen b 23 It later became a polyclinic for children 23 The house is classified as an historical monument 34 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp The Scarlat Orăscu house Europa Hotel renovation and addition of a floor in collaboration with Ion N Socolescu before 1914 1915 The hotel first called the Victoria Hotel was originally planned by his grandfather Nicolae Gh Socol a 18 b 24 79 It was demolished by the Communists in 1960 nbsp Hora țărănească in Ploiești planned around 1913 destroyed around 1950 House built along with Ion Socolescu a 19 shortly before the First World War It was damaged in the bombing and demolished in 1950 House at 12 Ștefan cel Mare street built before the First World War destroyed by the bombing according to Memoirs of Socolescu It housed the city s Technical Services in 1938 a 10 However an ancient house remains which matches Socolescu s style for its ground floor part 80 The originally one story house was expanded by one floor during the communist era nbsp Villa of Zaharia Leon on Drosescu street Villa on now C T Grigorescu street dates from 1913 to 1914 The villa was destroyed by the bombing 23 A later built house has partially preserved the original wall and gate Villa a 10 at 8 Maramureș street Built before 1914 it was nationalized by the Communists The house is classified as an historical monument 34 and hosts the National Department of Highways 23 nbsp The house of Toma T Socolescu in Ploiești His own work Socolescu rental property at 2 Ștefan cel Mare Aurel Vlaicue street Built from 1914 the building was habitable from 1915 and probably completed after World War I Socolescu borrowed from banks to finance it He installed his office and worked there until the bombing partially destroyed it b 25 The structure was confiscated and transformed by the Soviets in the 1950s 81 The original facade was replaced by a more sober style Originally the building had 7 shops on the ground floor and 5 apartments and housed Socolescu and his family b 26 Rental property a 20 in the old market Obor at 1 Emile Zola Built in the 1920s it was nationalized in 1950 The block of houses where it is located escaped communist destruction Villa on Eminescu street Built in the 1920s and destroyed by bombing Probably built in 1922 as shown by an inscription in the lobby It is located on Kogălniceanu street formerly Franceză street was published 36 Nationalized the building was only partially recovered by the Bogdan s heirs 82 The house is one of the few remnants of the ancient town center of Ploiești that was razed and rebuilt in a modern style around 1980 nbsp The Gheorghe Bogdan s building Toboc building at 1 Democrației street According to the family 83 of the former owner and other corroborating sources Socolescu designed and built the building The style is reminiscent of his brancovenesc style The construction resembles the rental structurethat he had planned for himself a few years before at 2 Ștefan cel Mare street Achieved between 1920 and 1924 nicknamed Toboc squat man the building was nationalized in 1950 It has been 23 occupied by tenants since the 1977 earthquake The construction is listed as a maximum seismic risk building 84 nbsp nbsp nbsp The Toboc building House at 6 Rahovei road Built around 1920 it was damaged in the bombing but was rebuilt almost identically under Socolescu s supervision The house was renovated in 2009 and preserves much of its original style A photograph was published in Arhitectura in 1925 d 9 House built in 1933 1934 at 4 Italiană street 85 It was confiscated and internally damaged during the communist period 86 The house is classified as an historical monument 87 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp The Ștefan Z Ghica Ghiculescu house Theater and cinematograph Odeon It was built in 1927 and inaugurated on 28 February 1928 88 It was operating as a cinema in 1932 89 Renamed Rodina after its nationalization in 1948 90 it sheltered from 1955 the Teatrul de Stat din Ploiești 91 It was transformed and modernized by the Communists in 1954 92 It was recognizable in 1957 after a long renovation during which its capacity increased to 600 seats 93 At an unknown later date as a result of the 1977 earthquake it was buried at the foot of a Soviet style residential block It is renamed the Toma Caragiu theater on 6 September 1991 94 nbsp Odeon theater around 1970 Portal of the Ploiești exhibition center Built in the 1930s it later became the hippodrome gate Destroyed by the bombing the current portal is a poor copy of the original c 15 Renovation of the ground floor a 17 of the Ploiești Central Bank 95 in the 1930s Affected by the 1977 earthquake the bank was razed by the Communists Peasant inn at the Bucov barrier 96 at 2 Strada Oborului Probably one of Socolescu s last works 1938 1939 it was planned to accommodate merchants and farmers The market was moved to the outskirts of the town after the construction of the central hall It was originally surrounded by horse stalls It is a one story building Romanian villa style with a large terrace in front carved oak pillars and tiled roof At the rear of the courtyard stood a barn for 40 animals and a smaller office building At the time of the legionnaire regime it became a shelter for refugees from Transylvania Later it welcomed the nervous disease hospital of Cernăuți evacuated following the Soviet invasion of Northern Bukovina It then became officially the Hospital of the Peasant Inn Seriously affected by the bombing the hospital was evacuated to Filipeștii de Pădure A section for Soviet troops was opened in October 1944 In 1951 the department of nervous diseases returned The building functioned continuously as a hospital through at least 2010 97 Family grave of the Gheorghiu family in the Viișoara cemetery A picture was published in Arhitectura in 1925 d 10 The tomb still existed in 2009 although changed and degraded According to some sources 98 the Memorial to the heroes of World War I in the Bolovani cemetery was done by Socolescu Partially destroyed by the bombing it was rebuilt but the bronze eagle that covered the top was never rebuilt Prahova county edit Manor of Gerard Joseph Duque in Păulești on the town s southern border built from 1920 to 1935 The house was commissioned by Obrocea Ion Georgescu then transferred to Duque for repayment of debts 99 it was redesigned by the architect for Duque nbsp T T Socolescu school Town Hall primary school public baths small maternity ward stables and carved wood Trinity memorial of the Păulești commune The works were completed between 1937 and 1944 The stables became a bakery The memorial was moved to the village cemetery Two houses for family members of I Diamandescu c 9 and Costică Dușescu b 8 built around 1907 in Campina Villa of D Ștefănescu in Campina Designed in 1916 and built later the outside appearance of the house was slightly changed It survives at 112 Carol I boulevard A 1916 issue of Arhitectura exhibited Socolescu s plans and sketches d 11 nbsp D Ștefănescu Villa around 1930 Voiculescu Pharmacy Campina It was demolished after the 1977 earthquake Villa of Dr Gheorghiu Campina The villa is unchanged on Carol I boulevard crossing Aleea Rozelor nbsp Villa of Dr Gheorgiu Villa of Nicolae Popescu Campina around 1933 The villa is well preserved 100 Courthouse 101 of Campina located at 14 1 Decembrie 1918 street The plans were drawn around 1924 102 In 1931 the construction was completed and the Judecatoria de Pace Mixta Campina began operations 103 The building still shelters 23 the Judecatoria as well as the Prefecture offices Courthouse 101 of Vălenii de Munte located at 26 Mihai Bravu street Construction began in 1923 104 The exterior is in good shape but as of 2010 was abandoned 23 House in Vălenii de Munte restored b 8 between 1907 and 1908 House in Vălenii de Munte built about 1926 1927 20 Its original appearance changed It is located at 12 Mihai Eminescu street Mortuary chapel of Tomescu s family 20 in Vălenii de Munte built around 1938 1939 The painter created and executed the murals Baptised as Holy Triniy chapel 105 it serves as a chapel for the town cemetery Royal villa in Vălenii de Munte for Princess Elena and Prince Michael Designed and built under the guidance of Nicolae Iorga A section plan is visible in the 1930 edition of Arhitectura d 12 The project was not fully realized b 27 The villa was destroyed by the Communists Villa of Nicolae Iorga in Sinaia built around 1918 It is classified as an historical monument 34 The house is at 1 Gheorghe Doja street and is perfectly preserved by the family Villa of lawyer Grigore Ivănceanu in Sinaia It survives at 4 Piatra Arsă street Villa of N Scorțeanu in Sinaia in the Cumpătu district A photograph of the house was published in Arhitectura in 1925 d 13 Villa C I Ionescu in Sinaia 106 Villa Al Radovici in Sinaia transformations 106 Town Hall of Sinaia renovation Villa of Florica Socolescu built in 1925 It sits at 22 Cumpătu street in Sinaia Cumpătu Socolescu built it for Florica Renovated in the 2000s it has barely changed Photographs and an inside plan of the villa were published in 1925 and 1941 in Arhitectura d 14 nbsp The villa in 1925 nbsp The villa in 2009 nbsp Neo brancovenesc balcony nbsp The main door Florica Socolescu villa Town Hall public baths and agricultural center of Urlați Construction started before 1916 nbsp Royal house Vălenii de Munte plan Monument of the Trinity in carved wood for the town of Dumbrăvești 107 It no longer exists Izvoarele church built from 1931 108 Assumption s church Adormirea Maicii Domnului in the town of Scăeni 109 It was built between 1936 and 1938 and published in Arhitectura in March 1938 d 15 The roof and towers were later altered One of the two original towers was replaced by two small ones 110 The original aesthetic has disappeared House of engineer Toma Călinescu at 1 Monumentului street House of teacher Emil Popescu at 1 Armoniei street in the Boldești Scăeni commune 110 Bucharest edit Rental property on Brancoveanu street Rental property at 105 Șerban Vodă avenue It adopted the same model as the Gheorghe Bogdan house of Ploiești The apartment house was later modernized destroying the original design A photograph of the building was published in Arhitectura in 1924 d 16 nbsp The Tilman brothers building in Bucharest around 1925 Tilman brothers building It is located at the intersection of FIilitti street and Tonitza street This apartment house was probably built between 1923 and 1925 111 A piece of its upper front sprocket is no longer present nbsp D Ionescu villa Bucharest Villa on Mitropolit Antim Ivireanul street published in Arhitectura in 1924 d 17 No longer in existence House of Engineer Al Gheorghiade located in Bonaparte Park A photograph of the house was published in Arhitectura in 1926 and 1941 issues d 18 Villa D Ionescu built in 1927 at 26 Gheorghe Brătianu now street Two pictures of the house were published in Arhitectura in 1930 d 19 It is classified as an historical monument 112 Other counties edit Boys High School of the railway station in Buftea Ilfov County It is located at 76 Mihai Eminescu boulevard As of 2009 its name was Buftea Barbu Știrbei Economic High School 113 Sfantu Nicolae și Alexandru church of Netezești Cummune of Nuci Ilfov county on Principală street near the City Hall The construction 114 and the interior all furniture were probably made between 1912 and 1916 It is classified as an historical monument 115 The Netezești church was erected at the expense of Mrs Al Serghiescu Its interior paintings were executed under the guidance of painter Pavlu by artists Tonitza St Dumitrescu Schweitzer Cumpana and Bălțatu b 28 Attributed works non exhaustive list editMany buildings of the period adopted Socolescu s style and signature Some buildings have been attributed to him for which adequate documentation is not available House at 10 Nicolae Bălcescu in Ploiești House at 120 Cantacuzino street crossing with Traian street Ploiești built in 1924 House at 17 Cantacuzino street Ploiești nbsp Nicolae Bălcescu street No 10 nbsp Cantacuzino street No 17 nbsp Cantacuzino street No 120 House at 3 Constanței street was published 3 Ploiești House at 7 Constanței street was published 7 Ploiești Twin houses at 34 Decebal street and on 33 Primaveri street Ploiești They were the property of Tănase Vasilescu 116 nbsp Entry of house on Constanței street No 3 nbsp Constanței street No 3 nbsp Primaveri street No 33 nbsp Constanței street No 7 nbsp Remarkable roof of house on Constanței street No 7 Unbuilt works editOf Socolescu s ten contest wins only two were built the Creditul Prahovei and partially the Palace of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Many other projects were not built including Project for South East European Institute b 29 probably designed around 1910 Church project in Slănic realised during the 1913 summer and exposed at the Romanian Athenaeum of Bucharest in spring 1916 It was published in Arhitectura in 1920 d 20 Public garden project on the Piață Unirii in Ploiești offered free by Socolescu to the city in 1922 117 Wholesale covered market project in Ploiești imagined behind the Central Market Hall in 1936 Palace of Culture project for Ploiești in 1937 118 The project was to modify the former courthouse built by Socolescu and Ernest Doneaud which was renamed Palace of Culture in 1953 Church projects for Predeal around 1956 with his son 119 and for the Păulești commune 1939 Town hall Project for Făgăraș Publications editIn Mihail Sevastos monograph on the City of Ploiești Monografia orașului Ploești 1937 Socolescu wrote the chapters on the city s architecture Central Market hall urbanism history of city plans and culture visual artists museums and the Nicolae Iorga library Some of his watercolors and drawings are included In the Bulletin of the Committee on Historical Monuments BCMI 120 numerous articles including Sfantu Nicolae church of Bălteni 121 archaeological studies and topographic map Published in 1908 in the first issue Third quarter under the title Architectural notes pp 114 119 122 Casa Hagi Prodan in Ploiești archaeological studies and topographic map Published in 1916 67 in the final issue before the war The article will also be published in his book Arhitectura in Ploești studiu istoric a 21 Having suffered from the bombing of 1944 the house was restored and the museum re inaugurated on 1 May 1953 b 11 Casa Dobrescu in Ploiești a typical house of merchants and small manufacturers from the beginning of the 19th century archaeological studies and topographic map 70 a 14 In Arhitectura from 1916 to 1944 Many illustrated articles on Romanian architecture Portraits of disappeared architects including Ion N Socolescu Alexandru Clavel D Herjeu and Toma N Socolescu d 21 Note de drum din Italia Travel notes in Italy A 7 page illustrated article published in 1925 pp 30 36 Plans and photographs of finished works drawings and watercolors of old Romanian buildings The issue of January March 1941 contains an article dedicated to the old Romanian art in Bessarabia illustrated on several pages with Socolescu s waterpaintings A profession of faith entitled Principles and improvements Towards a Romanian modern architecture in the April June 1941 issue d 22 The author ses preserving the national cultural wealth and the Romanian national genius while seeking progress and modernity Socolescu rejected international architecture The same year he published this article in a French version 123 An article proposing an institute dedicated to promoting and developing Romanian architecture An institute of Romanian architecture in the issue of 1943 1944 d 23 nbsp Old house of Ploiești Județul Prahova Romania as it was until the beginning of the 20th century In Simetria one article on Romanian architects who studied at the Beaux Arts de Paris In Romania Viitoare Travel notes on Romania and Italy Literary articles on Anna de Noailles the Countess of Noailles Brancoveanu Auguste Rodin Octavian Goga etc Studies on some old houses and historical monuments of Ploiești including in 1915 The ruins of the Saint Nicolas the Old church at 105 Sfantu Nicolae Vechi Mihai Bravu street 124 c 16 An old house similar to the Hagi Prodan house s style located on 23 Ștefan cel Mare street 125 An illustrated publication Prin Ardeal note de drum ale unui arhitect 126 The travel journal is also included in Amintiri pp 96 104 In the Biblioteca Urbanistă collection two volumes of translations with introductory studies and illustrations Urbanism la indemana tuturor pentru uzul consilierilor comunali și județeni arhitecților inginerilor medicilor ofițerilor agronomilor și al tuturor persoanelor ce se interesează de mai buna stare a orașului of Jean Raymond 127 Igiena urbană the translation of a reference book published in 1921 in Paris on the subject of urban hygiene 128 b 30 Articles about the Central Hall of Ploiești nbsp Ploiești Central Hall Pre projet 1913 of Toma T Socolescu far from the final version adopted in 1929 Romania two issues of Arhitectura 1931 1933 and July 1936 including a long article with photographs d 24 The 1936 article appears in Monografia orașului Ploești pp 597 603 and in Soloclescu s Arhitectura in Ploești studiu istoric pp 96 101 in Ploiești On 21 April 1929 an article entitled The building of the halls about a legal dispute over the Central Market Hall construction contract France Three illustrated studies regarding the Central Market Hall of Ploiești written in French by the architect himself L Architecture d Aujourd hui Paris year 7 number 11 November 1936 pp 44 45 129 Techniques des Travaux Paris year 12 number 8 August 1936 pp 413 417 130 La Construction moderne Paris year 51 number 46 September 1936 pp 945 955 131 United Kingdom The Architect London Germany A study by Professor Ing R Saliger and Ing Friedrich V Baravalle Vienna Der Bauingenieur Berlin 26 May 1933 No 14 Jahrgang 1933 Heft 21 22 132 dd Newspaper articles editHe published in Ploiești Iași and Bucharest newspapers on issues including architecture town planning local politics and culture He was the subject of numerous articles The following list is not exhaustive and states when Socolescu is not the author in Romanian Cronica literary journal Bucharest on May 22 1916 About the exhibition of architect T T Socolescu on the exhibition at the Romanian Athenaeum of Bucharest in spring 1916 by Spiridon Cegăneanu b 31 in Romanian Epoca Bucharest on May 24 1916 an artistic chronicle written by Criticus on the painting and architecture exhibition of the painter Toma Gh Tomescu and Toma T Socolescu at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest in Romanian Dimineața Bucharest Celebrating the architect Toma T Socolescu published on July 12 1925 about the celebration in Ploiești of Socolescu s victory in the Palace of the capital Town hall contest The piece includes an interview in Romanian Propășirea literary journal Iași From the past of Ploiești houses and store dealers On the occasion of the 50 years Jubilee of the Moțoiu firm on March 4 1929 in Romanian Virtutea About the need of a civic council a political article written on March 28 1929 in Romanian Dimineața Bucharest Approaching the municipal elections of Ploiești on May 15 1929 in Romanian Prahova Ploiești The archpriest Nae Vasilescu March 1 1935 obituary in Romanian Prahova Ploiești The Nicolae Iorga Popular Library in July 1935 in Romanian Neamul romanesc Bucharest Aedileship on May 27 1937 by Nicolae Iorga criticizing Ploiești s inertia over addressing shacks and garbage behind the Central Market Hall The article contrasts this with the work of Socolescu for the city in Romanian Gazeta carților literary journal Bucharest Architecture in Ploiești Historical study by Toma T Socolescu January February 1938 written by D M Rimnicat the occasion of the book s release in Romanian Gazeta carților literary journal Bucharest Memories of Octavian Goga an obituary on the writer poet journalist playwright and politician June 1938 in Romanian Romania Bucharest The main roads an article written in July 1938 on the insufficiency of the Romanian national roads in Romanian Neamul romanesc Bucharest Letter from Socolescu to Nicolae Iorga entitled Architecture is learned in the workshops not in the pulpit November 1938 in Romanian Excelsior Iași The main roads an article about the poor quality of Romanian national roads written on January 7 1939 in Romanian Prahova Noastră Ploiești The festivities of Păulești written on May 21 1939 in Romanian Prahova Noastră Ploiești A friend has left us Victor Rădulescu mayor of Campina 1926 1928 obituary written on July 2 1939 in Romanian Excelsior Iași The traffic and accidents written on August 12 1939 in Romanian Excelsior Iași The development of fruits on the development of fruit production in August 1939 in Romanian Universul Bucharest An old Romanian house from Chișinău a first article on the rural architectural tradition in Bessarabia written on July 22 1940 Other articles were to follow in later issues in Romanian Prahova Noastră Ploiești Costică Marinescu stair joiner an obituary in tribute to the master published in February 1942 in Romanian Prahova Noastră Ploiești The forecasts of V Blasco Ibanez on the Spanish author Vicente Blasco Ibanez on May 10 1942 in Romanian Prahova Noastră Ploiești The street names of Ploiești an open letter to the mayor on the relevance of street names on May 20 1943 in Romanian Gazeta carților literary journal Bucharest The need to create an institute of Romanian architecture January 1944 The latter appeared in Arhitectura in 1943 1944 d 23 in Romanian Presa Ploiești Backing M I A Bassabarescu an open letter to support the reconstruction of the house of the teacher writer destroyed by bombing on 14 February 1945 in Romanian Presa Ploiești Reconstruction of High School Saint Peter and Paul on February 21 1945 in Romanian Opinia liberă journal Ploiești Restoration of Ploiești on post war reconstruction by Dr Mircea Botez 133 that was published in No 72 and 73 of the newspaper Presa on November 15 1946 in Romanian Neamul romanesc Bucharest A final word on the issue of the Central Market article in defense of his work and the Central Market disparaged and criticized by Botez inPresa 1946 Painting and architecture exhibitions editArchitectural projects watercolor and church furniture in the Romanian Athenaeum of Bucharest Painter Toma Gh Tomescu also exhibited oils and watercolors a 22 Almost all the paintings were purchased 134 b 31 nbsp Watercolor painted by Toma T Socolescu then transferred to the Museum of the City of Ploiești in the years 1920 1930 Subject House of Ion Petre said Boiangiul located in Ploiești Ulierului street Exhibition of Central Market Hall project at the official Architecture Exhibition of 1930 135 Architecture and Decorative Arts Exhibition of 1933Sources edit in French and Romanian Socolescu family s archives Paris Bucharest including a photographic collection in Romanian Manuscripts of the memoirs of Toma T Socolescu Amintiri written between 1949 and 1959 in Romanian Manuscripts of Fresca arhitecților care au lucrat in Romania in epoca modernă 1800 1925 of Toma T Socolescu written between 1949 and 1954 in Romanian Historical Study of Toma T Socolescu on the City of Ploiești Arhitectura in Ploești studiu istoric 136 printer Cartea Ramanească București Preface by Nicolae Iorga 1938 reference 16725 111 pages in Romanian Monografia orașului Ploești Mihail Sevastos Editura Cartea Ramanească București 1938 1 vol 905 pages in Romanian Journal Arhitectura 137 published by the SOCIETY OF ROMANIAN ARCHITECTS 1 Bucharest published from 1906 to 1944 138 in Romanian Library of the Ion Mincu Architecture and Urbanism University 139 in Romanian Central University Library of Bucharest 140 and particularly numerous issues of the Romanian architecture journal Arhitectura in Romanian Prahova County Department of National Archives 141 in Romanian Official documents of the Romanian institutions in Romanian Lucian Vasile historian expert and head of office at the Institute for the Investigation of the Crimes of Communism and the Memory of the Romanian Exile president of the Association for the Education and Urban Development AEDU 142 native of Ploiești and author of the site specializing in the city and its history Republica Ploiești in Romanian Gabriela Petrescu architect in Bucharest author of a doctoral thesis ARHITECȚII SOCOLESCU 1840 1940 Studiu monografic dedicated to Socolescu architects published at the University of Architecture and Urban Planning Ion Mincu 2014 330 pages The thesis is available at the UAIM Summary of Gabriela Petrescu s thesis in French Le style national roumain Construire une nation a travers l architecture 1881 1945 Carmen Popescu Presses Universitaires de Rennes Simetria Rennes 2004 1 vol 375 pages ISBN 2 86847 913 8 Simetria ISBN 973 85821 8 0 in Romanian Comuna Păulești Județul Prahova Scurtă monograph Ing Constantin Ilie monograph about the Păulești comune Editura Ploiești Milenium III Ploiești 2005 1 vol 103 pages ISBN 973 87051 3 4 in Romanian Bicericile din Ploiești I Bisericile orthodoxe Constantin Trestioreanu Gheorghe Marinică Editura Ploiești Milenium III Ploiești 2003 203 pages ISBN 973 85670 4 1 in Romanian Monografia orașului Boldești Scăieni Cristian Petru Bălan Editura Premier Ploiești 2007 253 pages ISBN 978 973 740 062 8 in Romanian Constantin Ilie civil and industrial engineer construction technical expert for 35 years Born in 1929 in Păulești M Ilie knew personally Toma T Socolescu Since 2004 until now he is studying his work in Romanian Gerard Joseph Duque traversandu și epoca 1866 1956 Vincent G Duque et Paul D Popescu book about the life of Gerard Joseph Duque Editura Ploiești Milenium III Ploiești 2006 1 vol 189 pages ISBN 973 87924 5 2 and ISBN 978 973 87924 5 6 in French Vincent Gerard Duque grandson of Gerard Joseph Duque Ploiești The grandfather of Mr Duque was a friend of the architect Both were active members of the Rotary Club of the city Bibliography edit in Romanian Toma T Socolescu Amintiri 143 Editura Caligraf Design Bucharest 2004 1 vol 237 pages ISBN 973 86771 0 6 144 in Romanian Toma T Socolescu Fresca arhitecților care au lucrat in Romania in epoca modernă 145 Editura Caligraf Design Bucharest 2004 1 vol 209 pages ISBN 973 86771 1 4 146 in Romanian Toma T Socolescu Arhitectura in Ploești studiu istoric 136 Editura Cartea Ramanească București Preface by Nicolae Iorga 1938 111 pages reference 16725 147 The book includes most of the chapters written by Socolescu for the Monograph of the city of Ploiești by Mihail Sevastos in Romanian Mihail Sevastos Monografia orașului Ploești 148 Editura Editura Cartea Romanească București 1938 1 vol 905 pages 149 Toma T Socolescu is one of the authors of the monograph He wrote the chapters devoted to architecture the Central Market Hall urban planning the city maps history and culture visual artists museums and the Nicolae Iorga library in French Toma T Socolescu Vers une architecture roumaine moderne Extrait du Bulletin de l Ecole Polytechnique de Bucarest XII e annee No 1 and 2 Tipărire Finanțe Si Industrie Poetul Mecedonschi street No 8 București 1941 5 pages in Romanian Toma T Socolescu Prin Ardeal note de drum ale unui arhitect 126 including illustrations Editura Cartea Romanească Biblioteca Romania viitoare No 5 Ploiești 1923 32 pages illustrations 16 cm 150 in Romanian Toma T Socolescu Romanian translation and introductory study of the French book written by Jean Raymond L urbanisme a la portee de tous 151 under the Romanian title Urbanism la indemana tuturor pentru uzul consilierilor comunali și județeni arhitecților inginerilor medicilor ofițerilor agronomilor și al tuturor persoanelor ce se interesează de mai buna stare a orașului 127 Jean Raymond R Dautry Biblioteca Urbanistă collection Editura municipiului Ploiești Cartea Romanească 1927 172 pages illustrations figures tables 19 cm 152 in Romanian Toma T Socolescu Translation and introductory study of Paul Juillerat s book L hygiene urbaine under the Romanian title Igiena urbană 128 Paul Juillerat Biblioteca Urbanistă collection Editura municipiului Ploiești Cartea Romanească unknown publication date in Romanian Toma T Socolescu Monografie Ion Mincu 153 București 408 pages vol I 69 pages illustrations 32 cm vol II ref II166 154 b 32 in French Carmen Popescu Le style national roumain Construire une nation a travers l architecture 1881 1945 Presses Universitaires de Rennes Simetria Rennes 2004 1 vol 375 pages ISBN 2 86847 913 8 Simetria ISBN 973 85821 8 0 155 in Romanian Zina Macri and Ionuț Macri Toma T Socolescu arhitect roman 1883 1960 156 Caligraf Bucharest 2011 and Editura Universitară Ion Mincu Bucharest 2013 1 vol 264 pages 2011 ISBN 978 973 86771 6 6 and 2013 ISBN 978 606 638 062 1 157 in Romanian Gabriela Petrescu architect in Bucharest author of a doctoral thesis ARHITECȚII SOCOLESCU 1840 1940 Studiu monografic dedicated to Socolescu architects published at the University of Architecture and Urban Planning Ion Mincu 2014 330 pages The thesis is available at the UAIM Summary of Gabriela Petrescu s thesis Notes and references edit in Romanian Toma T Socolescu Arhitectura in Ploești studiu istoric 136 Editura Cartea Romanească București Preface by Nicolae Iorga 1938 111 pages reference 16725 Also in in Romanian Mihai Sevastos Monografia orașului Ploești Translation of the conclusion s last paragraph p 72 p 212 p 23 p 163 a b p 70 p 210 pp 92 93 pp 818 819 pp 88 92 pp 814 818 pp 85 92 pp 811 818 Translation of page 37 pp 105 106 pp 214 215 a b c p 62 p 202 a b c p 61 p 201 A long technical and architectural description as well as illustrations pp 95 101 pp 597 603 pp 12 13 pp 69 70 pp 209 210 a b pp 20 21 pp 160 161 p 69 p 209 p 86 p 42 a b p 60 p 200 pp 37 38 pp 45 photograph of the former Victoria hotel and 47 pp 177 178 185 and 187 pp 57 59 pp 197 199 pp 61 62 pp 201 202 pp 16 21 pp 86 88 Socolescu extensively describes the painter s style and work pp 812 814 in Romanian Toma T Socolescu Memoirs of Toma T Socolescu and book of Toma T Socolescu Amintiri 143 Editura Caligraf Design Bucharest 2004 1 volume 237 pages page 23 pages 19 et 22 pages 21 23 et 24 His father Toma N Socolescu was involved in a number of projects and heavily in debt a b page 24 Even his uncle the great architect Ion N Socolescu would not encourage him to pursue the path of architecture Toma T will thus first enroll in law studies that he will quickly abandon p 57 pp 92 95 a b pp 84 85 a b c d e f p 43 p 84 pp 43 44 a b p 85 pp 66 69 pp 86 87 a b Note at the bottom of page 43 Hence in the manuscript of his memoirs page 7 of the book Amintiri the author says after enumerating a list of his personal works I listed above only a portion of the work I performed as well as my work as an architect and my publications considering it redundant to further extend this list but also because it is difficult to remember all page 15 page 14 Toma T Socolescu writes around 1950 My grandfather Nicolae Gh Socolescu also an architect having finished his studies in Vienna was a descendant of a family that through a distant ancestor had obtained a noble rank in 1655 from G Rakoczy The original document written in calfskin in Latin with gold letters and the family emblem in colors laced and bearing the princely seal in red wax is in the possession of Major S Socol former mayor of the city of Făgăraș where he lives there N G Socolescu Socol in Ardeal came to Muntenia from the Berivoiu Mare commune located at the foot of the mountains in the Făgăraș region and settled in Ploiesti together with his five other brothers around the revolution around 1846 namely in Sf Spyridon outskirts During my childhood and until later there was his house on Culea Căleni a house with a ground floor with a general square shape set far back from the street and surrounded by a garden He married Ioana born Săndulescu from the same slum and his name appears among the founders in the church records and as was customary at that time I think he was also buried there although the research I did remained fruitless in 1872 Translated from Romanian p 42 pp 45 46 p 107 pp 71 72 a b p 43 the architect wrote in his memoirs in the late 1950s that it still exists p 46 p 185 pp 50 51 p 51 pp 43 to 45 According to local sources unconfirmed by the Royal House of Romania it seems that the villa was used for the universities of the historian and politician Nicolae Iorga as part of the Princess Helena Principesa Elena foundation Translated note written by Toma T Socolescu taken from his memoirs The note No 30 appears at the bottom of p 53 The text which the note is related to specifies that the architect and the painter Toma Gh Tomescu were still working on furnishings of the church in 1916 p 31 p 93 note 49 a b pp 55 56 The album of over 130 photographs of works by Mincu the second volume of the monograph which is mentioned by the architect several times in his memoirs as on page 33 in note below and on the first page of the copy available at the library of the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism seems to have mysteriously disappeared from the documentary fund of the library in Romanian Mihail Sevastos Monografia orașului Ploești Editura Cartea Romanească București 1938 905 pages A long architectural and technical description and illustration pp 597 603 pp 616 634 p 615 Ion Ionescu Quintus 1875 1933 is the fifth son of Ghiță Ionescu great banker merchant and politician of Ploiești 1833 1898 pp 429 430 Ghiță Ionescu pp 435 435 Ion Ionescu Quintus pp 422 435 and pp 442 443 Toma T Socolescu was Mayor from January to March 1920 and Chairman of the Interim Committee from December 1919 to March 1920 under the period of government Alexandru Vaida Voevod from 1 December 1919 to 12 March 1920 p 444 p 435 p 584 The Halls will be opened on 1 November 1935 a b p 752 p 751 Prince Carol II of Romania will lay the foundation stone on 18 November 1923 pp 152 153 and pp 751 752 pp 151 152 and p 756 pp 151 152 761 the monograph in deed evokes a fire shortly after 1923 that would have consumed the great tower of the church pp 179 422 433 434 p 630 vintage photograph 1937 p 149 in Romanian Society of Romanian Architects SAR 1 architecture journal Arhitectura published from 1906 to 1944 Toma T Socolescu Case vechi romanești din Chișinău watercolor reproductions 1926 year V p 98 Toma T Socolescu Vechea artă romanească in Basarabia issue of January March 1941 year VII No 1 pp 122 124 Toma T Socolescu Palatul Ziarului Adevărul drawing 1916 year I No 2 May p 67 Toma T Socolescu Palatul Adevărului drawing 1924 year III p 147 a b Toma T Socolescu Banca Creditul Prahovei Ploești Plans drawings and photographs 1926 year V pp 111 114 Toma T Socolescu and Pretrescu Gopeș D Concursul pentru Palatul Primăriei Orașului București Plans and drawings classed I 1926 year V pp 50 51 Toma T Socolescu De la concursul Astrei Romane pentru executarea cazinoului funcționarilor săi din Ploești Un concurs de schițe Plans drawings and text July October 1937 issue No 9 10 pp 19 20 Ernest Doneaud Palatul Justiției din Ploești drawing 1924 year III p 74 Toma T Socolescu Catedrală Monument Sf Ioan a eroilor Prahovei drawing dating of 1923 1924 year III p 144 Toma T Socolescu Catedrală Ortodoxă Ante proect drawings 1925 year IV pp 73 74 Toma T Socolescu Vila Avocat Gr Ivănceanu Ploești photograph 1925 year IV p 77 Toma T Socolescu Cavoul Fam Gheorghiu Ploești photograph 1925 year IV p 54 Vila Ștefănescu la Campina drawings and plans 1916 year I No 2 may p 66 Toma T Socolescu Vilă Regală Vălenii de Munte plan 1930 year VI p 43 Toma T Socolescu Vila N Scorțeanu Sinaia Cumpătul photograph 1925 year IV p 76 Toma T Socolescu Vila proprie Sinaia Cumpătul outlook photographs and ground floor plan 1925 year IV pp 74 75 Toma T Socolescu Vilă la Sinaia photograph January March 1941 year VII No 1 p 193 Toma T Socolescu Biserica din comuna Scăeni județul Prahova photograph and plan March 1938 year IV No 11 pp 28 29 Toma T Socolescu photograph 1924 year III p 143 Toma T Socolescu photograph 1924 year III p 145 Toma T Socolescu Prop Ing Al Gheorghiade Parcul Bonaparte photograph 1926 year V p 113 Toma T Socolescu Casa Gheorghiade photograph January March 1941 year VI No 1 p 193 Toma T Socolescu Vila Ionescu Șos Kiseleff photographs 1930 year VI pp 37 38 Toma T Socolescu Proect de biserică Comuna Slănic Prahova article and plans January 1920 pp 21 24 Toma T Socolescu Ion N Socolescu article in memoriam 1924 year III p 146 Toma T Socolescu A Clavel Cateva note article in memoriam 1925 year IV pp 14 15 Toma T Socolescu La mormantul lui D Herjeu article in memoriam 1926 year V pp 7 8 Toma T Socolescu Ion N Socolescu article in memoriam January March 1941 year VII p 58 Toma T Socolescu Toma N Socolescu article in memoriam January March 1941 year VII p 58 Toma T Socolescu Principii și indreptări Către o arhitectură romanească modernă article April June 1941 year VII No 2 pp 17 18 a b Toma T Socolescu Un institut de Arhitectură romanească article 1943 1944 years IX X pp 5 6 Toma T Socolescu Halele Centrale ale orașului Ploești 5 indoor and outdoor photographs of the hall 1931 1933 pp 40 41 86 Toma T Socolescu Halele Centrale Ploești article plans drawings and photographs July 1936 No 6 pp 13 16 21 30 Other references a b c d Founded by Ion N Socolescu in 1891 and become the Union of Romanian Architects UAR UAR internet site historic in Romanian Arhitectura in Ploești studiu istoric in Romanian Approved by the Higher Technical Council of the City published in the official journal of 6 March 1935 No 24 a b c in Romanian Ilie Constant Memories autobiographical notes pp 22 23 Local Council collection of Păulești File No 12 1953 1957 National Archives of Prahova County in Ploiești It is available at the Bibliotheque nationale de France a b in Romanian Source National Archives of Prahova County Prahova Prefecture fund File No 265 1938 pp 1 74 Prefecture appointment decision No 1226 of 18 February 1938 File No 263 1940 pp 1 4 Prefecture Revocation decision No 856 of 18 November 1940 and appointment of Grigore Dincă File No 433 1942 pp 1 3 6 and 7 Groups of people from Păulești asks to the Prefect that the Professor architect is re installed as mayor Appointment decision by Prefecture No 231 of 27 February 1942 File No 155 1945 pp 15 38 Prefecture revocation decision No 71 of 29 January 1945 Note researches of engineer Constantin Ilie Ploiești conducted from 26 October 2009 to 9 February 2010 in Romanian July 2007 decision and historical disputes since 1995 Source Municipal Council of Păulești in Romanian Gazeta de Păulești No 4 February 2009 p 4 Link to the document Archived 2011 10 09 at the Wayback Machine in Romanian Municipal Council of Păulești 31 April 2007 decision School name translation Architect Toma T Socolescu in Romanian Source articles published in local newspapers SĂRBĂTOAREA CIREȘELOR LA PĂULEȘTI 2 June 2011 Ioan Popescu newspaper Actualitatea Prahoveană Omagiu marelui profesor arhitect Toma T Socolescu Actualitatea Prahoveană 2 June 2011 Dumitrescu N Ziarul Prahova Ploiești 30 May 2011 La Paulești a fost dezvelit bustul arhitectului Toma T Socolescu Ziarul Prahova 30 May 2011 a b Translation Seventeenth nineteenth Century City Dweller Museum Museum internet site in Romanian Roșca Maria Maria Tănase Privighetoarea din Livada cu duzi volume II Ed Ginta Latină București 2000 p 347 in Romanian in 1965 the library became Biblioteca Județeană N Iorga or County Library N Iorga A work of art made by his father Toma N Socolescu a b Așezămantul Nicolae Iorga in Romanian Art Museum of Ploiești in Romanian RepublicaPloiesti net Vintage photographs of the municipal baths These would be demolished by the Communist regime around 1955 to make way for apartment buildings in Romanian Source National archives of Prahova county Ploiești City archives File No 449 1939 p 28 Așezămantul Nicolae Iorga Inventory of Socolescu and Tomescu paintings registered under No 53 30 November 1945 Note researches of engineer Constantin Ilie Ploiești conducted from 26 October 2009 to 9 February 2010 They were kindly shown to Laura Socolescu heir of the architect by the museum curator in August 2009 in Romanian Source National Archives of Prahova County Prahova Prefecture fund File No 97 1945 p 225 243 Investigation file against Toma T Socolescu for incitement and sabotage agent of the Armistice Agreement Declaration of Toma T Socolescu Note researches of engineer Constantin Ilie Ploiești conducted from 26 October 2009 to 9 February 2010 a b c in Romanian Source illustrated brochure on the painter Toma Gh Tomescu Toma Gh Tomescu 1881 1949 published by Arts Museum of Ploiești in 1974 thanks to the work of its director Ruxandra Ionescu This brochure is archived at the Museum of Art It was available in August 2009 The I P C Institutul de Proiectare a Construcțiilor is renamed by I S P R O R Institutul de Studii și Proiectare a Orașelor on 1 January 1953 in Romanian As his correspondence testifies An exchange of letters with the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church from 15 November 1959 to challenge some painting and furniture provided in the New St Eleftherios Church of Bucharest Biserica Sfantul Elefterie din București Source Socolescu family archives Paris Correspondence No 776 of the Romanian Orthodox Church Patriarch s Office dated 27 November 1959 signed by the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church A detailed 11 pages critical presentation sent to the Vice President of the Regional Council of Ploiești Engineer Cristescu following a conference held on 5 June 1959 at the Palace of Culture of the city about the project of systematization of the town center Source Socolescu family archives Paris a b c d e f g h In September 2010 in Romanian Liceul Toma N Socolescu in Romanian Articles published in the local press in 2009 and 2010 Initiativa Pentru Comemorarea a 50 de Ani de la Moartea Lui Toma T Socolescu Ziarul Prahova newspaper of 6 July 2009 Ploiestenii Pot Contribui la Monografia Despre Toma T Socolescu Ziarul Prahova 24 September 2009 Concurs Pentru Bustul Lui Toma T Socolescu Ziarul Prahova 13 May 2010 La Concursul Pentru Realizarea Bustului Lui Toma T Socolescu n a Fost Ales Niciun CastigatZiarul Prahova 16 July 2010 Va Mai Amintiti de Toma T Socolescu Adevărul de Seară 28 September 2010 Parcul Toma T Socolescu in Ploiesti Adevărul de Seară 4 October 2010 Toma T Socolescu Omagiat la Ploiesti Si Paulesti Ziarul Prahova 13 October 2010 Maine Se Implinesc 50 de Ani de la Moartea Lui Toma SocolescuZiarul Prahova 20 October 2010 Astazi la Ploiesti Manifestari ample in memoria marelui arhitect Toma T Socolescu Ziarul Prahova 21 10 2010 Remember Profesor Arhitect Toma T Socolescu 1883 1960 50 Informația Prahovei 15 October 2010 Archived 2011 02 23 at Wikiwix in Romanian Articles published in the local press in 2011 Actualitate Ploiesti Mihai Eminescu Ploiesti Evocare Eminescu Ploiesti Toma Socolescu Ploiesti Adevărul de Seară 13 January 2011 Un Bust Din Bronz al Lui Toma T Socolescu a Fost Dezvelit Ieri in Centrul Ploiești Ziarul Prahova 15 January 2011 a b in Romanian Source Municipal order No 316 of 29 09 2010 Ploiești was a main oil source for the German Third Reich during the Second World War It has been regularly bombed between 1942 and 1944 see the Oil Campaign chronology of World War II Sources in French Durandin Catherine Le systeme Ceausescu Utopie totalitaire et nationalisme insulaire Vingtieme Siecle 1990 Volume 25 No 25 pp 85 96 in French Roumanie la destruction radicale d un patrimoine national s a Continuite No 45 1989 p 58 PDF Giurescu Dinu C The razing of Romania s past international preservation report Washington D C U S Committee International Council on Monuments and Sites Distributed by the Preservation Press Kress Foundation European Preservation Program of the World Monuments Fund 1989 68 pages ISBN 0 911697 04 7 pp 38 68 Nationwide urban and rural destruction and resettlement chapter Visan Laura Houses that Cry Online Civic Participation in Post Communist Romania The McMaster Journal of Communication journal Vol 7 Issue 1 2011 pp 50 52 Sources in French Rufat Samuel Roumanie Les transformations en trompe l œil d une capitale liberale revue Grande Europe No 29 February 2011 La Documentation francaise Direction de l information legale et administrative in French L impossible restitution des biens en Roumanie Arielle Thedrel Le Figaro 21 April 2006 in Romanian SOS Casa Socolescu din Paulesti Prahova 2010 Costin Pătrașcu Blog ART Arhitectura Romanească Tradițională Bucharest published on 8 June 2009 Article and pictures about the Socolescu manor of Păulești a b in Romanian Sources in Romanian Minutes No 1177 of 28 March 2006 issued by the Heritage Department of the Ploiești Municipality for partial possession of the building following the decision No 3855 2005 issued by the Mayor by which was restituted in kind but partially the building located on Ștefan cel Mare No 2 in Romanian and in French Socolescu family archives and photos Bucharest Paris The commercial spaces and the cellar of the building will be occupied by a Russian Roman joint society or SovRoms in the 1950s then by a food store and a bakery from 1956 and finally by various businesses from 1980 1990 Members of the Securitate and communists leaders will occupy a long time his property When the building will be returned only partly by the City Council to his heiress in 2006 the cellar had been flooded and used as a dump the courtyard had been used as public open toilets the roof had been torn by wild antennas and part of the building was squatted by homeless people The building had in fact not been maintained for over 30 years in French and Romanian Source Socolescu family Bucharest Paris The Toma T s conac or manor has been completely looted and stripped of all its decorations ornaments tiles and equipment The house has been returned in a state of half ruin on a very reduced land compared to its land before the forfeiture The ornamental gardens spread on several hectares an original initiative for the time created by Toma T have totally disappeared Many different constructions made in the 1990s including a cooperative have replaced it a b c d e f g h i j k l m in Romanian Ministerul Culturii Și Cultelor Institutul Național al Patrimoniului List of Historical Monuments of Prahova County 2015 In France Amintiri can be found at the National and University Library of Strasbourg A typewritten version had already been available in Bucharest at the Union of Romanian Architects Library and also at the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism Library probably since 1955 Both books are available at the National Library of Romania and at the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism The Central University Library of Bucharest and the British Library also have a copy of the Fresco in French Vers une architecture roumaine moderne Translation Towards a Romanian modern architecture En francais dans le texte a b Partidul Naționalist Democrat Political party founded in 1910 by Nicolae Iorga Legea privind Corpul Arhitecților din Romania Și a Registrului Arhitecților Union of Architects of Romania internet site page Istoric University of Architecture and Urbanism Ion Mincu internet site page Istoric in Romanian Source Ploiești i newspaper year VII article of 12 May 1929 a b in Romanian Source Toma T Socolescu Autobiography upon admission to Rotary Club of Ploiești Mesagerul rotarian 24 April 1937 p 87 in Romanian Source Socolescu family archives Paris Sinaia Decree of 25 June 1925 The appointment was made following a report by the Foreign Minister Chancellor of the Order reference No 30578 The deed is in possession of the Socolescu family in Romanian Source Socolescu family archives Paris admission form to the Union of Architects of the Popular Republic of Romania Minutes of 3 and 10 April 1953 membership card No 311 30 November 1953 in Romanian Article from the Păulești Gazette The illustrious architect Toma T Socolescu receives the posthumous title of honorary citizen of the commune of Păulești decision of the municipal council of 24 April 2018 Decision No 32 of the City Council of Păulești dated 24 04 2018 Archived 2018 08 25 at the Wayback Machine Inclusion of the cross on the tombstone of Răzvadu de Sus Died the servant of God Marula Master of the Royal Court Lady of Messire Socol former Grand Master of the Royal Court daughter of the late Prince Mihai and Lady Tudora in the year 1647 during the reign of Prince Ion Matei Basarab in 17 December around the tenth hour of the night solar calendar of the 21st year according to the Romanian translation done by G D Florescu in 1944 from an original slavon version A răposat roaba lui Dumnezeu Marula clucereasa jupanului Socol fost mare clucer fiică a răposatului Io Mihai Voevod și a jupinesei Tudora la anul 1647 in zilele lui Ion Matei Basarab voevod in luna decembrie 17 zile spre al zecilea ceas din noapte crugul solar temelia 21 in Romanian Source G D Florescu Idem Un sfetnic al lui Matei Basarab ginerele lui Mihai Viteazul in Revista istorică romană XI XII 1941 1942 pp 88 89 in Romanian Front page of the issue No 3616 28 March 1914 in Romanian Cathedral construction history on the Targu Mureș Town hall internet site cathedral history in Romanian Source Dimineața newspaper Bucharest Celebration of architect Toma T Socolescu published on 12 July 1925 in Romanian Palatul Școalelor Comerciale in Romanian Source Informația Prahovei newspaper article of 22 December 2010 136 de ani de invățămant comercial prahovean in Romanian The name and location of this school has changed often since the origin of its establishment Internet site of the National College Ion Luca Caragiale page Istoric Casa corpului Didactic also called Căminul invățătorilor prahoveni in Romanian Source Școala și Vieața revista Asociației Generale a Invățătorilor din Romania an X nr 1 sept 1939 director T D Iacobescu pp 155 255 Reference found on the Testimony testimoniale page Prahova pragraph from the Romania General Association of Teachers internet site Asociația Generală a Invățătorilor din Romania in Romanian Source National archives of Prahova county Ploiești City archives File No 42 1932 p 72 invitation to the inauguration ceremony sent by the Teaching Body Society to the Mayor of the city Note researches of engineer Constantin Ilie Ploiești conducted from 26 October 2009 to 9 February 2010 in Romanian Ligii Județene a Sindicatelor Libere din Invățămant Prahova in Romanian Source Ploiești Teachers Union History in Romanian Source National archives of Prahova county Prahova Prefecture fund File No 97 1927 contract signed between the Prefecture and architects Toma T Socolescu and Ernest Doneaud in 1923 along with other documents Note researches of engineer Constantin Ilie Ploiești conducted from 26 October 2009 to 9 February 2010 a b in Romanian Source National archives of Prahova county Ploiești City archives File No 52 145 1912 pp 1 40 Acts related to the construction of the market hall contract No 9088 913 established between the City and the architect Toma T Socolescu correspondences of 1912 1913 and 1929 complete plans of the hall pre project dating from 1913 Notes researches of the Socolescu family conducted on 21 January 2010 in Romanian Source National archives of Prahova county Ploiești City archives File No 201 1930 pp 4 5 Municipal Council Minutes No 1 11 June 1930 in which was agreed the implementation of the Central Hall Note researches of engineer Constantin Ilie Ploiești conducted from 26 October 2009 to 9 February 2010 in Romanian Ploiești i newspaper article The Central Market hall construction of 21 avril 1929 written by Eugeniu Ionescu in Romanian Source National archives of Prahova county Ploiești City archives File No 92 1936 pp 17 20 project plans and holographic texts of the author of a whosale hall located behind the Central Market Hall Note researches of engineer Constantin Ilie Ploiești conducted from 26 October 2009 to 9 February 2010 in Romanian Lucian Vasile RepublicaPloiesti net Ploiești 2011 The old Ploiești and the location of the Union Place Piață Unirii articles Gradina publica Hora Taraneasca De la Calea Campinii la Bulevardul Republicii and Bulevardul Independentei Gradina publica Hora Taraneasca De la Calea Campinii la Bulevardul Republicii Bulevardul Independentei as well as the article and photographs of the Piața Unirii Centrul Ploiestiului comparatie anii 30 vs azi Gerard Joseph Duque was at that time president of the Ploiești Chamber of Commerce and Industry Source Gerard Joseph Duque traversandu și epoca 1866 1956 p 105 in Romanian Liceu de Băieți din Campina in Romanian Source Correspondences preserved in the archives of the Education Ministry Historique du lycee National Nicolae Grigorescu publie dans le journal tribuna invatamantului ro du 26 03 2019 De la Liceul Dimitrie Barbu Știrbey la Colegiul Național Nicolae Grigorescu 100 de ani de istorie 100 de ani de cunoaștere Archived 2020 03 29 at the Wayback Machine a b in Romanian Toma T Socolescu Casa Hagi Prodan din Ploiești studiu arheologic și releveu BCMI year IX April to June 1916 pp 82 90 The bulletin is available at the library of the University of Architecture and Urban Planning Ion Mincu Library website Direct link to the list of numbers BCMI available in pdf The architect wrote in 1938 in Arhitectura in Ploești studiu istoric that the objects were still there in Romanian Nicolae Iorga BCMI Fasc 59 Year XXII 1929 p 94 Sources Arhitectura in Ploești studiu istoric page 70 and Monografia orașului Ploești p 210 a b in Romanian Toma T Socolescu Casa Dobrescu din Ploiești BCMI year XIX April to June 1926 pp 58 60 The bulletin is available at the library of the University of Architecture and Urbanism Ion Mincu Library website Direct link to the list BCMI numbers available in pdf Muzeul Ion L Caragiale in Romanian Constantin Trestioreanu Gheorghe Marinică Bicericile din Ploiești I Bisericile orthodoxe pp 83 84 in Romanian Constantin Trestioreanu Gheorghe Marinică Bicericile din Ploiești I Bisericile orthodoxe pp 103 104 in Romanian Dan Todesrașcu in Romanian Sources Tomșani town hall internet site Church history Institutul de Memorie Culturala CIMEC Institutul de Memorie Culturala Biserica Adormirea Maicii Domnului In an administrative reorganization that occurred in 1968 the villages of Herești Hotarele Izvoarele and Scărișoara constituted a new town called Hotarele in the județ of Giurgiu Giurgiu County The exact address has been confirmed in September 2009 by the heir of the teacher Filip Nicolae He now lives in this ground floor house in Romanian RepublicaPloiesti net Strada Lipcani article and photographs in Romanian Toma T Socolescu Fresca arhitecților care au lucrat in Romania in epoca modernă 1800 1925 Editura Caligraf Design Bucharest 2004 1 vol 209 pages p 46 Source visit of the house by the Socolescu family France in September 2010 The style is in deed Socolescu in Romanian The building has been nationalized by application of the 92 1950 decree Direct link to the decree Romanian Chamber of Deputies in Romanian RepublicaPloiesti net Casa Gheorghe Bogdan article and photographs F Dragomirescu Family living next to the building on Ștefan cel Mare street at No 37 in 2010 in Romanian Source Issue of 9 March 2010 from the newspaper Adevărul de Ploiești Direct link to the article in Romanian Article and TV reporting of Valea Prahovei TV entitled Nou monument de arhitectură in Ploiești or A new architectural monument in Ploiești broadcast on 22 January 2011 Mihai Bădulescu s Interview about his house in Romanian Source Mihai Bădulescu Ploiești August 2009 in Romanian Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Classification decree No 2561 4 October 2010 in Romanian De la Sala Odeon la Teatrul Toma Caragiu Lucian Vasile RepublicaPloiesti net Ploiești May 2016 De la Sala Odeon la Teatrul Toma Caragiu Toma T Socolescu in viata cultural artistica a Prahovei LXXIII Paul D Popescu newspaper Ziarul Prahova Ploiești 29 June 2011 issue Toma T Socolescu in viata cultural artistica a Prahovei LXXIII in Romanian Ziarul Prahova Newspaper article of 20 March 1927 A 1932 press article presenting the films that were played in Ploiești from 20 May 5 June 1932 including the Odeon movie theater Informatorul newspaper Ploiești 24 May 1932 issue A 1932 press advert in Informatorul newspaper Archived 2014 12 14 at the Wayback Machine in Romanian Decree No 303 of 3 11 1948 The cinema Odeon ploiești is listed in the attached table State Theater of Ploiești in Romanian Femei prahovene de azi de ieri si mai demult Paul D Popescu newspaper Ziarul Prahova Ploiești 7 December 2010 Femei prahovene de azi de ieri si mai demult TOMA CARAGIU UN ARTIST DE GENIU Al I Badulescu newspaper Ziarul Prahova Ploiești 21 August 2010 issue TOMA CARAGIU UN ARTIST DE GENIU Mrs Revent retired actress and Constantin Ilie born on 18 March 1929 in Păulești engineer in Ploiești witness of the transformation works carried out in the 1950s in Romanian Article and photographs of the Communist newspaper Flamura Prahovei from Mai 11 1957 The issue is available in the old newspapers archives of the Central University Library of Bucharest in Romanian Toma Caragiu theater Bancă Centrală din Ploiești a remarkable building designed by the architect I Negrescu based on the Charles Garnier s style for Ghiță Ionescu and belonging to the banker Max Shapira The bank had to leave during the bank crisis of 1929 1933 The area hosts a bakery and then a fabric store Nationalized in 1950 the building will then be converted into a food store Mercur on the ground floor and a shoemaker on the floor Vintage photographs are available on RepublicaPloiesti net Bancă Centrală din Ploiești article and photographs in Romanian Hanul Țărănesc de la Bariera Bucov in Romanian Source National Archives of Prahova County Note researches of Lucian Vasile Ploiești conducted in 2010 in Romanian Main source Asociației Nationale Cultul Eroilor filiala Prahova However this information is not corroborated in Romanian Source book about the life of Gerard Joseph Duque Gerard Joseph Duque traversandu și epoca 1866 1956 DUQUE Vincent G and Paul D Popescu Editura Milenium III Ploiești 2006 1 volume 189 p ISBN 973 87924 5 2 and ISBN 978 973 87924 5 6 pp 134 135 in Romanian ceașcadecultură ro Photographs and article on the house a b The Romanian translation is Judecatoria corresponding to the Magistrates Court England and Wales in Romanian Source National Archives of Prahova County Prahova Prefecture fund File No 50 1924 pp 1 16 drawings and plans signed by Socolescu and stamped by the Administration dated 12 August 1924 Note researches of engineer Constantin Ilie Ploiești conducted from 26 October 2009 to 9 February 2010 in Romanian Source Romanian Ministry of Justice internet site Courts of law portal Judecatoria Campina in Romanian Source National Archives of Prahova County Prahova Prefecture fund File No 39 1923 pp 1 21 According to T T Socolescu s plans the work started on 1 September 1921 Note researches of engineer Constantin Ilie Ploiești conducted from 26 October 2009 to 9 February 2010 in Romanian Capela Sfanta Treime a b in French Source Le Style National Roumain Construire une nation a travers l architecture 1881 1945 Carmen Popescu 2004 Presses Universitaires de Rennes Simetria p 272 in Romanian Source Monograph of Dumbrăvești town p 29 Link to the document Archived 2012 01 18 at the Wayback Machine in Romanian Source Institutul de Memorie Culturala CIMEC Institutul de Memorie Culturala Biserica Izvorul Tămăduirii și Nașterea Maicii Domnului The commune of Scăeni has been merged with Boldești in 1968 a b in Romanian Source Monograph of Cristian Petru BĂLAN Monografia orașului Boldești Scăieni Ploiești Editura Premier 2007 253 pages ISBN 978 973 740 062 8 p 99 Monografia orașului Boldești Scăieni in Romanian Source a commercial book of the Great Romania dating from 1925 available on the Library of Congress under reference Anuarul Socec al Romaniei mari vol 1 mentions on p 272 the address of a tailor Weintraub S sor amp Irimia Weisberg whose store is located in the building Its sign is visible on an old photograph of the building On the other hand its style is very similar to that of Creditul Prahovei of Ploiești done around 1923 Another old picture shows an already blackened facade so the photographic view has very likely been made several years after construction in Romanian Ministerul Culturii Și Cultelor Institutul Național al Patrimoniului List of Historical Monuments in the City of Bucharest 2015 in Romanian Grupul Scolar Economic Administrativ și de Servicii Barbu A Stirbey Buftea in Romanian Photographs on the Romanian internet site MNIR in Romanian Ministerul Culturii Și Cultelor Institutul Național al Patrimoniului List of Monuments Historical Department Ilfov 2015 Source M Pătrașcu current owner of the house of Primaveri street The other house on Decebal street is degraded and inhabited by Gypsies in Romanian Source National archives of Prahova county Ploiești City archives File No 45 1922 pp 1 2 72 112 Letters and original drawings on layers from Toma T Socolescu Memorial act for the public garden inauguration on 24 May 1926 Note researches of engineer Constantin Ilie Ploiești conducted from 26 October 2009 to 9 February 2010 in Romanian Source National archives of Prahova county Ploiești City archives File No 124 1937 pp 1 4 5 The architect plans movie theaters and theaters a library an art gallery exhibition halls a museum etc Note researches of engineer Constantin Ilie Ploiești conducted from 26 October 2009 to 9 February 2010 in Romanian Source Socolescu family archives Paris Complete file of the project in Romanian In Romanian Buletinul Comisiunii Monumentelor Istorice published between 1908 and 1945 under the initial direction of the historian Nicolae Iorga the publishing will thereafter be stopped during 25 years in Romanian Monastery images and comments on the internet site of Crestinortodox ro County Directorate for Culture Cults and National Cultural Heritage Archived 2011 01 19 at the Wayback Machine in Romanian Toma T Socolescu Biserica din Bălteni Note arhitectonice BCMI anul 1 1908 p 114 119 The journal is available at Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism library Internet site of the Library Direct link to the list of BCMI numbers available in pdf In the same issue pp 112 113 include the Descriptives notes of Nicolae Iorga in French Toma T Socolescu Vers une architecture roumaine moderne Extract of the Bulletin de l Ecole Polytechnique de Bucarest year XII Nos 1 and 2 Tipărire Finanțe Și Industrie Poetul Mecedonschi street No 8 București 1941 5 pages in Romanian Toma T Socolescu Romania Viitoare Anul 1 No 45 article O ruină Ploiești 17 May 1915 Source Arhitectura in Ploești studiu istoric p 9 in Romanian Toma T Socolescu Romania Viitoare Anul 1 No 45 Ploiești 17 May 1915 Source Arhitectura in Ploești studiu istoric p 20 a b Translation In Transylvania Travel notes of an architect a b Translation City planning for all for use of county and municipal councilor architects engineers doctors agents agronomists and all persons interested in a better condition of their city Original book of RAYMOND Jean L urbanisme a la portee de tous a l usage des fonctionnaires et conseillers municipaux des coloniaux officiers ingenieurs architectes administrateurs et de toutes personnes s interessant au mieux etre dans la cite Editions Dunod Preface of Renee Dautry Paris 1925 187 pages a b in French Paul Juillerat L hygiene urbaine Edition Ernest Leroux Collection Urbanisme Serie I Paris 1921 254 pages The book includes an introductive study written by the architect from page 89 to 92 Paul Juillerat 1854 1935 was Head of the Technical Department of Sanitation and Housing in the Prefecture de la Seine Paris He proposed in 1894 a genuine system of health information on the 70 000 Parisian buildings based on the principle of field surveys He records the presence of equipment cleanliness and state of maintenance of buildings communal areas in French Source L enquete sanitaire urbaine a Paris en 1900 Sanitary survey in Paris in 1900 by Yankel Fijalkow Universite de Paris 7 CNRS LOUEST 2004 in French The scanned article is available at the Bibliotheque de la Cite de l architecture et du patrimoine Direct link to the document in French The scanned article is available at the Bibliotheque de la Cite de l architecture et du patrimoine Direct link to the document in French The scanned article is available at the Bibliotheque de la Cite de l architecture et du patrimoine Direct link to the document in French The article is available at the library of Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Switzerland but in restricted access Link to the journal reference at the EPFL Mayor of Ploiești from March 1939 to September 1940 in Romanian Led by the writer I N Theodorescu Arghezi 2nd year No 67 22 May 1916 entitled Cu prilejul exposiției de arhitectură T T Socolescu signed by Spiridon Cegăneanu in Romanian Source Virtutea newspaper article 24 May 1930 a b c Translation Architecture in Ploiești historical study translation Architecture All issues of the journal are available in Romanian at the Library of the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urban Planning ro informare documentare biblioteca virtuala revista arhitectura Page where all issues are available pdf in Romanian Library of the Ion Mincu Architecture and Urbanism University in Romanian Central University Library Carol I of Bucharest Biblioteca Centrală Universitară Carol I in Romanian Arhivele Naționale ale Romaniei Direcția Județeană Prahova a Arhivelor Naționale Link to the address of the Prahova archives department in Romanian Asociația pentru Educație și Dezvoltare Urbană and Resume of Lucien Vasile at IICCMER a b Translation Memoirs The work is available in Romanian at the County Library Nicolae Iorga of Ploiești in Romanian at the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism library internet site Direct link in the BUAUIM catalog reference clasificare III 5037 in Romanian at the National Library of Romania in the BNR catalog reference IV 71751 in French at the Bibliotheque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg in the Strasbourg BNU catalog reference cote BH 32 336 Translation Fresco of the architects who have worked in Romania in the modern era from 1800 to 1925 The book is available in Romanian at the County Library Nicolae Iorga of Ploiești in Romanian at the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism library internet site Direct link in the BUAUIM catalog references III 5036 and III 2892 for the copy dating from 1955 in Romanian at the Central University Library of Bucharest Biblioteca Centrală Universitară Carol I reference UNITATEA CENTRALA IV518874 in Romanian at the National Library of Romania on the BNR catalog reference cota IV 71752 at the British Library in the BL catalog reference YF 2006 b 1101 The book is available in Romanian at the County Library Nicolae Iorga of Ploiești as a photocopy in French at the Bibliotheque nationale de France on the BnF Catalog reference notice Nr FRBNF31380368 Translation Monograph of the City of Ploiești The monograph can be found in Romanian at the County Library Nicolae Iorga of Ploiești in Romanian at the Central University Library of Bucharest Biblioteca Centrală Universitară Carol I reference UNITATEA CENTRALA 65293 in Romanian and also at the Romanian Academy Library The book is available in the Romanian Academy catalog reference III 814535 in Romanian The book is available at the Central University Library Carol I of Bucharest reference UNITATEA CENTRALA 13869 Translation Town planning for everyone in Romanian The book is available in Romanian at the Central University Library Carol I of Bucharest reference UNITATEA CENTRALA 48665 in Romanian and also at The Romanian Academy Library The book is available in the AR catalog reference Număr de sistem 000200461 Translation Monograph of Ion Mincu in Romanian A copy of the monograph offered by the architect around 1958 is available at the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism library Internet site of the Library Direct link The book is available in Romanian at the Romanian Academy Library The work can be found in the RA catalog reference II 833046 in French at the Cite de l architecture et du patrimoine library reference 720 949 8 POP in French at the Bibliotheque nationale de France reference FRBNF39296853 as in numerous French university libraries in French at the Bibliotheque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg on the BNU Strasbourg catalog reference cote BH 134 582 at the British Library on the BL catalog reference Shelfmark YF 2006 a 18623 Traduction Toma T Socolescu romanian architect 1883 1960 The book is available in Romanian at the County Library Nicolae Iorga of Ploiești in Romanian at the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism library internet site Direct link in the BUAUIM catalog references clasificare II 7787 in Romanian at the National Library of Romania in the BNR catalog reference IV 96393 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Toma T Socolescu nbsp Romania portal nbsp Arts portal nbsp Architecture portal in Romanian RepublicaPloiesti net is a site specializing in architectural history of the City of Ploiești It contains numerous photographs of the city taken between the beginning of the twentieth and 1945 Several works of Toma T Socolescu are presented in Romanian Association for Education and Urban Development Association whose objectives are the preservation and enhancement of urban heritage the organization of educational and cultural activities in the field of history sustainable development and the protection of human rights in Romanian Atunci și acum Blog allows comparison over several Romanian cities of yesterday and today s streets views and houses Historic Houses of Romania A reference site on the finest Romanian homes created by Valentin Mandache Romanian architectural heritage expert The site has also a Romanian version in Romanian Case de Epoca in Romanian Three Romanian sites mainly dedicated to the history and architecture of the ancient Bucharest Bucureștii Vechi și Noi locuri in București și istorii despre ele Unknown Bucharest in Romanian County Museum of History and Archeology of Ploiești in Romanian National Institute of Historical Monuments Institutul National Al Monumentelor Istorice Official list of historical monuments of Prahova county Lista Monumentelor Istorice 2015 Official list of historical monuments of Ilfov county Lista Monumentelor Istorice 2015 Official list of historical monuments of Bucharest Lista Monumentelor Istorice 2015 Internet site describing all historical monuments in Romania Asociația Prietenii MNIR By the law of 21 December 2005 was established in Romania an official institution to investigate the crimes of communism It is also allowed to refer before a court in sentencing and reparation The Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of Romanian Exile The destruction of the national heritage is also considered as a crime in Romanian Library of the Ion Mincu Architecture and Urbanism University in French Paris Palais de Chaillot Database of articles and publications available Cite de l Architecture et du Patrimoine Association ProPatrimonio for safeguarding the architectural heritage of Romania in Romanian Salvați Bucureștiul Save Bucharest an association that fights to preserve Bucharest against the frequent destruction of its historical heritage Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Toma T Socolescu amp oldid 1209101961, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
