Teofil Mihăilescu

The album Brașov. Atmosphere, Architecture and Urban Space, published in Romanian, English, French, German and Hungarian, present at national and international book fairs, is the result of a research work (2009-2014) with the idea of ​​closing an arch over time. It presents, together with the texts with historical information, a symbolic number of 365 pairs of twin photos taken in contemporary Brașov, from the same places where the old photographers took their photos in the past. These old photographers are the heroes of the visual preservation of the history of urban development in Brașov, because if photography had arrived in the city with a delay of only a few decades, the whole visual history of its architectural-urban transformations starting from the second half of the 19^th century and until the beginning of the 20^th century would have been lost, along with the people, the situations, the events and the atmosphere that we see “written with light” from the past. This album is both an architectural photography album, an approach to urban anthropology and a book on the history of architecture of my city: it is a unique monograph in images of Brasov, symbolically marking the anniversary of 780 years of documentary attestation of Brașov (1235-2015) and, at the same time, 173 years of photography in Brașov (1842-2015). This album is also a recuperative approach, a manifesto, a journey through time, inviting you to documentation and meditation to rediscover this fascinating medieval city of Transylvania, to understand it and to carry it in your soul.

Forewords:
Prof. Arch. Augustin Ioan, PhD, Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urban Planning, Bucharest
Prof. Ștefan Ungurean, PhD, Transilvania University of Brașov
Arch. Marilena Manolache, Chief architect of  Brașov Municipality