Statement

      I have always put an emphasis on my education and goals and I have been fortunate enough to get all the needed support from my parents.

While looking for the right school for me, Manchester School of Architecture stood out not only due to its excellent reputation and ranking or its ARB and RIBA Accreditation, but also because I had the feeling of belonging to MSA. The same feeling occurred to me while reading every page of the school’s website. Studying in Manchester would allow me to be inspired by the mixture of Victorian buildings and innovative constructions and leisure places like Castlefield Urban Heritage Park, Urbis Museum and Piccadilly Gardens Pavilion of Tadao Ando, who is one of my favourite architects. Therefore I am confident that I will gain the skills, intellection and contacts at MSA to pursue a career in Architecture due to its personalized learning environment and multicultural student community, matters that match my personality.

     My interest in Art and Architecture has always been enhanced by visiting exhibitions and buildings with an architectural value. Last month, I visited an exhibition called “The Credo of Simplicity” by a famous Romanian architect, Horia Creanga, on display at the National Museum of Art. A lot of buildings which I pass by everyday are created by him as he is an important name of modern Romanian architecture. The exhibition presented the architect’s life with a focus on professional and personal training. I was able to admire the original blueprints of some of the buildings as well as recent photography, the architect’s sources of inspiration, along with the story of each of his projects.

What I liked most was the Ottulescu  Building due to its balanced ,subtly asymmetrical  composition of the spaces around the node of circulation. I also liked: the Cantacuzino Villa, the ARO Building  and the Bunescu Villa. This exhibition made me realize that besides of their strong impact on Bucharest architecture ,many of these buildings have spectacular interiors that are worth seeing.

      Among my favourite architects is Zaha Hadid. I appreciate her for her extraordinary courage to adopt a new architectural style that puts a strong emphasis on form. She even claimed that: ‘’There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?” Her architectural projects The Contemporany Art Centre in Rome or The Fire Station for Vitra are a source of inspiration because they give the eyes and the body a sense of motion, of speed. Due to her complex, visionary projects she is the first woman to have won the Pritzker Architecture Prize and I hope to be fortunate enough to follow in her steps some day.

      One work of architecture that I would like to visit is the Museum of Literature in Himeji, Japan, designed by Tadao Ando. My wish of experiencing this place comes from the mixture between old and new that the architect creates, by adding two more buildings to an existing traditional Japanese style pavilion. Moreover, what I find inspiring is the way that Tadao Ando uses water and light to create a relaxing space. I think that visiting this architecture masterpiece would fulfill my desire to make contact with Japanese architecture, which has always fascinated me.