Horia Creangă

Who was Horia Creangă?

Horia Creangă was a Romanian architect important in the modernist movement. Described in 1999's Romanian Modernism as "the true founder of the modernist age", he was the designer of the first important modernist structure in Romania, the Asigurarea Romaneasca insurance building. He was one of the key designers in adopting modernist design into housing, but is even more prominent in modernist industrial design. The Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture indicates that "[d]espite the austerity of Creanga's modernist vocabulary, he reached a remarkable expressive force that remained unequaled in the production of the industrial architecture."

Horia Creangă was the grandson of the famous Romanian writer Ion Creangă.