Andra Panait

Research projects

FFCSU 2024 VRMAP Grant – Development of research, development, and innovation infrastructure within UAUIM by introducing new digital media in the presentation of innovative research results through projects in the Design Departments and Diploma Projects of the Faculty of Architecture.

FFCSU Grant 2024 B:ID UAUIM 3.0 – UAUIM Branding: History and Design 3.0 – Continuation of the visual identity project developed in previous phases, testing graphic and object design solutions aimed at contributing to the accessibility and navigation of university spaces, completed with the production of these visual materials.

FFCSU Grant 2024 DigitArh 2024 – Digitization of the UAUIM archive – Diploma projects (1960s-1970s)

FDI Grant 2023 MINCU_HUBS – Development of infrastructure to support the teaching and research activities of UAUIM

Grant VR TRANSFORM - UNREAL, Grant PhD KIT - presentation of doctoral studies in architecture and urbanism from UAUIM, Grant CASA - INFOGRAPHIC on the Academic Community, School of Architecture (UAUIM Internal Competition, 2021)
Member of the implementation team and all the graphic materials related to the research results

Grant Creative Danube: Innovative teaching for inclusive development in small and medium-sized Danubian cities, Program: Erasmus +, 2019-2022 (DANUBIAN_SMCs); Implementation Team Member and Research Results https://sites.google.com/view/danubian-smcs/home

Grant ERASMUS + VVITA - Modernizing Learning and Teaching for Architecture through Smart and Longlasting Partnerships leading to sustainable and inclusive development strategies to Vitalize heritage Villages through Innovative Technologies, 2017-2019 (VVITA); Member of the management team, all visual materials related to research results and publication editor
https://vvita.uauim.ro/home;

Member of the UEFISCDI Grant implementation team “Urban blocks in protected central areas, exposed to multiple hazards - assessment, mapping and risk reduction strategy; Bucharest case study: the area destructured by the demolition of the communist regime ”, 2012–2016 (URBASRISK); Member of the implementation team and coordinator of publications
https://www.uauim.ro/cercetare/urbasrisk/

Member of the UEFISCDI Grant implementation team “Reducing the effects of the urban thermal island for improving urban comfort and balancing energy consumption in Bucharest”, 2014–2016 (REDBHI); Member of the implementation team and coordinator of publications
https://www.uauim.ro/cercetare/redbhi/

Conference participation

Curator of the FAST Festival of Architecture Schools of Tomorrow, a project funded by the Romanian Order of Architects through the architecture stamp - 2023 edition, Timișoara, and 2024 edition, Cluj, 2025 edition, Iași.
https://fast.oar.archi/2023/fast-pavilion-concept-and-team/

UAUIM Housing Hub 2020 conference within the Architecture Annual 2020, co-organizer
https://www.anuala.ro/2020/uauim-housing-hub/, https://www.uauim.ro/evenimente/masa-rotunda-oras-locuire-arhitectura-pandemii/

EURAU Conference, member of the organizing team and coordinator of publications
https://eurau2016.uauim.ro/

ICAR 2015 Conference, Re [Search] through Architecture, member of the organizing team and coordinator of publications
https://icar2015.uauim.ro/

ICAR Conference 2012, [Re] Writing History, member of the organizing team and coordinator of publications
https://icar2012.uauim.ro/

Publications and articles

Article Workshop Archives, no. 3, 2024: Visual Archives: A Polyphonic Exploration
https://arhive-de-atelier.uauim.ro/2024/arhive-vizuale-o-explorare-polifonica

Article INCD_INCERC, Journal "Urbanism. Architecture. Construction, Vol. 16, no. 1 / 2025, ARCHITECTURAL PEDAGOGY. TUTORS AND STUDENTS ADDRESS GLOBAL CHALLENGES
https://uac.incd.ro/Art/v16n1a4.pdf

Article Argument 16/2024: "Hypostases of spatial-volumetric form," LIVING IN COMMON COURTYARDS – TWO MORPHOLOGICAL AND SPATIAL HYPOSTASES. Contemporary interventions in a minor fabric with historical value
https://argument.uauim.ro/f/a/ARG16_14_PANAIT_co.pdf

Article Workshop archives – studies and research in architectural design, 2020-2022: Collective living in Rahova: dialogue, gradation, permeability
https://arhive-de-atelier.uauim.ro/2022/locuire-colectiva-in-rahova-dialog-gradare-permeabilitate

Article Argument 14/2022: Distance and distancing in public urban spaces during the Covid-19 pandemic
https://argument.uauim.ro/f/a/ARG14_StanPanait.pdf

Book Doctoral Research Laboratory. Danube Cities as a Research Laboratory, ISBN 978-606-638-279-3 (editor)
https://lcdi.uauim.ro/f/LCDI-2022.pdf

Digital processes - experiment in contemporary architecture
https://editura.uauim.ro/pub/199

Visions on mass housing sustainable rehabilitation - Student workshop, Bucharest
https://editura.uauim.ro/pub/203

Romanian applied study on rural heritage. Sustainable revitalization methodology approaching inter-multi- and trans-disciplinarily of build culture aiming to promote social inclusion for disadvantaged and remote communities. Vvita Workshop, Danube Delta, 18-27 May 2019
https://editura.uauim.ro/pub/423

European Architectural Medals for the Best Diploma Projects (EAM BDP)
https://editura.uauim.ro/pub/407

National Architecture Biennale 12th edition, 2016: Recovering landmarks
https://editura.uauim.ro/pub/382

Abstracts - ICAR 2015 "" Re [Search] through Architecture
https://editura.uauim.ro/pub/329

CATALOG OF PROJECTS PARTICIPATING IN B.N.A.B. 2012
https://editura.uauim.ro/pub/318

Abstracts - ICAR 2012
https://editura.uauim.ro/pub/238

Workshops, competitions

Participation in the "Buna Ziua, Cluj" Park Design Competition - International Competition - 5th place, 2022

Participation in the RE_USE ITALY, Reuse the Thermae - Curinga 2022 competition

Finalist Mention Winner Dubai Sea House Competition, YAC Architecture Competition, 2022

First Honorable Mention Winner Caramel Shore Traveller Rooms Competition, Latvia, Buildner Architecture Competitions, 2022

Mention Bioclimatic House Competition, OAR Bucharest 2021

Workshop Adaptive Workplace 22, a pilot project aimed at finding creative solutions with a low budget for reconfiguring the workspace of UAUIM workshops, in the context of the COVID 19 pandemic. https://www.anuala.ro/2020/adaptive-workplace-22/

Nomination / Kaira Looro 2021 Competition, https://www.kairalooro.com/competition_womenshouse/winningproject_finalists.html#DRAAITNIA1121

Annual Architecture Award 2019 Section “Research through architecture / participatory architecture”, VVITA - Modernizing Learning and Teaching for Architecture; https://www.anuala.ro/proiecte/2019/284/

Mention 1 Barcelona International Project Competition 'Barrio Social Housing Competition' (2016); https://startfortalents.net/results-barcellona-barrio-social-housing-contest/

Prize 2 - Contest of ideas - Arrangement of public space by opening the courtyard of St. Ilie's Church in the "Historic Center pilot area - Craiova", organized by O.A.R. Oltenia Territorial Branch with the support of O.A.R., 2015;
https://www.oar.archi/ro/concursuri/proiect/amenajare-spatiu-public-prin-deschiderea-curtii-bisericii-sfantul-ilie-din-centrul-istoric-zona-pilot-craiova/31

Nomination - Bucharest National Biennial of Architecture Competition, 2012, Image Architecture section; https://www.uar-bna.ro/2012/proiecte/8/14/

1st Prize - Identity Contest Bucharest National Architecture Biennale, 2012; https://www.uar-bna.ro/

Other information

Exhibition featuring projects from the CITY WHISPERS workshop, as part of RDW 2024
https://program.romaniandesignweek.ro/soaptele-orasului-atelier-andra-panait

Solo exhibition Objet trouvé – memories from a forgotten place, Dimitrie Leonida Technical Museum, as part of RDW 2023
https://romaniandesignweek.ro/portofoliu/objet-trouve-amintiri-dintr-un-loc-uitat-muzeul-tehnic-dimitrie-leonida

Exhibition with workshop projects LIVING TOGETHER, within RDW 2023
https://www.uauim.ro/evenimente/expozitia-connections-living-together/

Exhibition with workshop projects BUCHAREST ARCHITECTURE CENTER ON A FORMER FACTORY SITE, 11 IUNIE ST., as part of Design Week Sf. Gheorghe, 2023
https://www.uauim.ro/evenimente/design-week-sf-gheorghe/

RDW exhibition: DesignGO! | FORWARD >> A Cluster of houses, as part of RDW 2022
https://romaniandesignweek.ro/design-go-2022/forward-cluster-houses

Personal exhibition EVERYWHERE & THOUGHT CATCHING MACHINE, at RDW 2021
https://portfolio.andrapanait.ro/pestetot-masina-de-aprins-ganduri

TOGETHERNESS personal exhibition, at RDW 2021
https://portfolio.andrapanait.ro/togetherness

ADAPTIVE WORKPLACE exhibition, within RDW 2020
https://romaniandesignweek.ro/portofoliu/adaptive-workplace

International exhibition and workshop ADAPTIVE WORKPLACE, within the Bucharest Architecture Annual 2020
https://www.anuala.ro/2020/adaptive-workplace-22/

International exhibition - Ideas for the center of Bucharest, Stories of future houses, within the Bucharest Architecture Annual 2019, curator
https://www.uauim.ro/departamente/bp/expo/

International exhibition: 19 OUTSTANDING ROMANIAN WOMEN ARCHITECTS FOR 2019, London, UAR, all graphic materials
https://www.uniuneaarhitectilor.ro/19-outstanding-romanian-women-architects-for-2019

International exhibition: 7 Jewish Pioneers of Modern Architecture in Romania: Tel Aviv, 2020, UAR, all graphic materials
https://portfolio.andrapanait.ro/jewish-pionieers-of-modern-architecture-in-romania

International Exhibition European Architectural Medals for the Best Diploma Projects 2017, co-organizer
https://eam.uauim.ro/projects/2017/