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Name
MIHAELA CRITICOS

Present Position
PhD – Associate Professor Architect, Director of the Department of History & Theory of Architecture and Heritage Conservation (DITACP), “Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urban Planning (UAUIM), Bucharest

Education
Doctor’s Degree in architecture at the "Ion Mincu" Institute of Architecture, Bucharest (2004)
Senior Fellow in the Getty Program of the New Europe College, Bucharest (2001-2002)
Graduated as architect at the "Ion Mincu" Institute of Architecture, Bucharest (1981)
Professional affiliations
Order of Romanian Architects

Professional Experience and Academic Activity
• since 2011 – Director of the Department of History & Theory of Architecture and Heritage Conservation (DITACP), UAUIM
• 2008-2011
Head of the Chair of History & Theory of Architecture, DITACP, UAUIM
• since 1994 - teaching activity in UAUIM: courses in Theory of Architecture and tutoring for restoration projects; guidance for dissertations and diploma projects; member of dissertation, diploma or PhD commissions
• since 2010, Visiting Professor at the Department of Architecture of the “Gabriele d’Annunzio” University in Chieti-Pescara, Italy
•1981-1994
Architect at “Carpati” Design Institute, Bucharest (1983-1994) and CJP Buzau (1981-1983)
Architectural and interior decoration projects for administrative, office and hotel buildings

Research Activity
• Research studies for collective or individual contracts, grants and cultural projects focused on the Romanian architectural heritage, architectural modernity, the architectural/urban problems of the city of Bucharest, the question of ornament and its modern acceptions
• certified expert of the Ministry of Culture in the field of heritage conservation
• since 2010 - coordinator of a bilateral research programme on restoration topics activated between UAUIM and the Department of Architecture of the “Gabriele d’Annunzio” University in Chieti-Pescara
• coordinator of research projects for heritage conservation financed by the Union of Romanian Architects or the Municipality of Bucharest

Publications
• Authored books:
- Art Deco sau modernismul bine temperat / Art Deco or Well-Tempered Modernism, Ed.
Simetria, Bucureşti, 2009
- Ornamentul – tema şi variatiuni, Editura Universitara “Ion Mincu”, Bucureşti, 2005
• Contributions in collective volumes published by: Editura ICR, Bucuresti (2003, 2006), Editura Simetria, Bucuresti (2009), Editura Universitara “Ion Mincu”, Bucuresti (2006, 2007, 2008, 2010), EAAE, Leuven (2012), Technion IIT, Haifa (2014);
• Articles in specialized reviews (Arhitext Design, Arhitectura, Revista Monumentelor Istorice) or cultural magazines (Dilema Veche, Secolul XX)

Lectures, workshops & scientific events
Scientific papers at national and international conferences / seminars (3d Workshop of the EAAE - ENHSA Conservation Network, UAUIM, Bucharest, 2011; Symposium on Bucharest architectural modernism, Technion Institute, Haifa, 2012; Humboldt Symposium ”On Form and Pattern”, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, 2014; lectures at the Faculty of Architecture of the University “Gabriele d’Annunzio” in Chieti-Pescara - since 2009)

Exhibitions
Author/curator of the exhibitions Petit Paris – Architecture et Urbanité, Bucharest, Sala Dalles, 2006, and Bucarest – le petit Paris¸ Luxembourg, Abbaye de Neumunster, 2010