Foto Cosmin Caciuc

Cosmin Caciuc

Associate Professor at the Basics of Architectural Design Dept.

Research projects

Workshop EAAE (European Association for Architectural Education) - "Working Group Periodicals" - member appointed by UAUIM (2010-2015).
Workshop "Research through project and architectural creation" - Diaspora in Romanian scientific research "- member appointed by UAUIM (September 17-19, 2008, UAUIM Bucharest).
FULBRIGHT postdoctoral fellowship at the College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Colorado at Denver, USA, Sept. 2007- Mar. 2008. Research title: Transdisciplinarity and Theory of Architecture.

Conference participation


Section moderator at the European Symposium on Architectural Research in Architecture and Urban Design (EURAU) 2016, UAUIM Bucharest, September 28-30, 2016.
Member of the scientific committee at the International Conference on Architectural Research ICAR 2015, Bucharest, March 26-29, 2015.
Speaker and author “Laudatio Wolf D. Prix” and “Laudatio Glenn Murcutt” at ROCAD - Romanian Convention of Architecture and Design, May 7-8, 2014, Bucharest, Patriarchate Palace.
Speaker and author “Laudatio Dominique Perrault” and “Laudatio Daniel Libeskind” ROCAD - Romanian Convention of Architecture and Design, Parliament Palace, May 15-17, 2013.
Speaker and author “Laudatio Gottfried Böhm” and “Laudatio Eduardo Souto de Moura”, “(RE) writing history”, ICAR 2012 (Bucharest, UAUIM, 18-20 May 2012).

Publications and articles

Transdisciplinarity and Theory of Architecture, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2015.
Dominique Perrault - critical directions for large architectural projects, “Ion Mincu” University Publishing House, “In nuce” collection, Bucharest, 2014.
Eduardo Souto de Moura - the congruence between architectural thinking and the constructive act, “Ion Mincu” University Publishing House, “In nuce” collection, Bucharest, 2013.
The American avant-garde: 50 years of architecture: from modernism to minimalism, Zeppelin Publishing House & “Ion Mincu” University Publishing House, Bucharest, 2010.
Kenneth Frampton. Professional practice, critical historiography and architectural theory at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. "Ion Mincu" University Publishing House, Bucharest, 2010.
Transdisciplinarity and architecture, Paideia Publishing House, Bucharest, 2010.
Over-theorizing architecture, Paideia Publishing House, Bucharest, 2007.

Workshops, competitions

The prize of the journalism contest of the Timișoara Architecture Annual a_ta 2014, as an author.
Ex-aequo award at the National Architecture Biennale (BNA) 2014, publications section, as co-editor within the Zeppelin team.
Award of the Design section at the Bucharest Architecture Annual 2013, interior design category, as co-author within the Zeppelin team.
The prize of the section “Architecture by word”, within the Bucharest National Architecture Biennale (BNAB) 2012, as author of the volume Transdisciplinarity and architecture, Paideia Publishing House, Bucharest, 2010.
Arhitext Design Award for Essay, 2000, as an author.

Other information 

Translation of the volume Jonathan A. Hale, Building ideas - an introduction to the theory of architecture, Paideia Publishing House, Bucharest, 2011.