igloo 229 / 25 de ani de arhitectură românească contemporană / decembrie 2025 – ianuarie 2026

Issue 229 of Igloo marks the close of the year 2025 and serves as a moment of reflection—on the projects of this year, but also on the 25 years of contemporary Romanian architecture that our editorial archive has curated for a quarter of a century. This issue also marks the entry into the twenty-fifth year of the magazine igloo’s existence.

The dossier is therefore dedicated to the exhibition 25 Years of Contemporary Romanian Architecture. A Visual Archive. 2000–2025, as an attempt to take a clear-eyed look at a landscape in motion. Throughout this time, igloo has functioned as an open archive, a territory in which the present has been discussed, negotiated, and contested. We rediscovered these projects not by treating them with nostalgia, but by re-examining them with pure curiosity, seeking the meaning of a trajectory in constant transformation. We asked ourselves: how have architects’ voices changed? What remains after the accelerated enthusiasm of the past two decades? What remains after crises, after digitalization? Where does the radical freedom of the post-’90s period stand today in relation to the current necessity of responsibility?

The dossier has crystallized into a cartography of professional memory. In a series of in-depth interviews, we debated the connections and turning points of the profession, the fertile tensions between place and the global, and examples of good practice that confirm an optimistic evolution. Emblematic figures—Dorin Ștefan, Iulia Stanciu, Radu Teacă, Vladimir Arsene, Șerban Țigănaș, Adrian Spirescu, Andrei Șerbescu, Florian Stanciu, Andrei Utcan, Corvin Cristian, Vlad Gaivoronschi—appear in the pages of this issue as mature witnesses to questions that reconstruct the path of this profession. Finally, Bruno Andreșoiu, director of igloo media and igloo associated architects, outlines, through the lens of both professional practice and the editorial office, a series of open-ended conclusions.

Size: 230 × 310

Pages: 172