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One of the projects presented in the architecture section look at the creation of an underground experimental theatre, completed this year by architects Razvan and Ioana Luscov. The architects transformed the abandoned basement of an important theatre building in Bucharest into an art space, a multifunctional stage, a hall and foyer. Once occupied by a theatre company, the basement had been closed in 1948 due to the political climate at the time. It had been in a state of decay until 2008. The question of such transformations and the general state of Romanian theatre will also be presented through an illustrated history of the 1963 project of the National Theatre in Bucharest, in which architect Romeo Belea covered the building in a new façade that changed the its aesthetics and urban character. We will also present the current architectural debate about redoing the façade. We have also invited the architect Angelo Roventa to present his project, a temporary extension of the National Theatre in Iaşi, an important cultural centre in northeast Romania completed in 2008: A black cube at the centre of town that hosts one of the theatre’s stages, an object that brings the poetry of the play onto the street. The presentation will include architectural drawings (plans, cross-sections, elevations), free-hand sketches, 3D perspectives of the buildings’ interior and exterior, “before” and “after” pictures the site and the urban context, pictures of the inside and outside of the buildings, architectural details, statements by the architects and project histories, as well as a description of their role within Romanian theatre today and in the future.