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Anca Petrescu

1949 - 2013

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Mira Anca Victoria Mărculeț Petrescu (20 March 1949 – 30 October 2013) was a Romanian architect and politician. Born in Sighișoara, Romania, Petrescu graduated from the Ion Mincu Institute of Architecture in Bucharest in 1973. In 1986, on the orders of Romanian leader Nicolae Ceaușescu, Petrescu became chief architect of the colossal Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, a thirteen-year megaproject constructing the world's second-largest civilian administrative building after the Pentagon. During the 1970s and 1980s, she was involved in many of Bucharest's redevelopment projects, which led to the relocation of thousands of residents in order to demolish their old, poor neighborhoods, replacing them with modern residential developments. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anca Petrescu is the 312th most popular architect (up from 329th in 2019), the 244th most popular biography from Romania (up from 256th in 2019) and the most popular Romanian Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Anca Petrescu ranks 312 out of 518. Before her are Joseph Poelaert, Friedrich Gilly, Giovanni da Udine, Ernst Ziller, Ernst May, and Sándor Tarics. After her are Paul Wallot, Carlo Rossi, Ineni, Heinrich Tessenow, Galeazzo Alessi, and Christian Frederik Hansen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Anca Petrescu ranks 292. Before her are Guillaume Faye, Abdullah Senussi, Juan Manuel Asensi, Idir, Tony Cragg, and Ed O'Ross. After her are Pamela Reed, Simon Callow, Nancy Meyers, Trevor Horn, Ali Akbar Salehi, and Ivan Patzaichin. Among people deceased in 2013, Anca Petrescu ranks 196. Before her are Josip Kuže, Emile Griffith, John Tavener, Alain Mimoun, Hiroshi Nakajima, and Saye Zerbo. After her are Yusef Lateef, Richie Havens, Armando Trovajoli, Aleksandr Serebrov, Jim Hall, and Aslan Usoyan.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Anca Petrescu ranks 244 out of 844. Before her are Liviu Rebreanu (1885), Reuven Feuerstein (1921), Elena Văcărescu (1864), Ecaterina Teodoroiu (1894), Adolf Albin (1848), and Theodor Aman (1831). After her are Ion Heliade Rădulescu (1802), Nicolae Titulescu (1882), Titu Maiorescu (1840), Ivan Patzaichin (1949), Elek Schwartz (1908), and Nikolai Spathari (1636).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Romania

Among architects born in Romania, Anca Petrescu ranks 1. 

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