Fig. 9
Project for the Victory Square, by architect Duiliu Marcu.
(Duiliu Marcu: Architecture, București, 1946)
Fig. 8
Palace Square with the monument of Carol I, before 1940.
(The Romanian Academy Library)Fig. 10
Project for the Victory Square with the monument of
Ferdinand I, 1937 (National Archives - Bucharest)Fig. 11
Victory Palace, 1956. (Agerpres Archive)were proposed during the authoritarian reign of King
Carol II (1930-1940), when the architectural and
urbanistic decisions started to be more politically
driven than before, thus becoming the expression of
his reign.
None of these projects was finalized, but each of
them was meant to be dedicated to a historical
Romanian monarch. The reference to each monarch
consisted in the building of his statue and of one or
more representative buildings surrounding it. Even
though these ideas of creating the three squares
for the kings appeared in a relatively short period
of time, based on the researched archive materials
we could not trace if these squares were part of a
more coherent project or if they were conceived
separately. What can be mentioned is that the
projects for the first two squares (the Royal Palace
and the Victory squares) were similar to the “place
Monica Sebestyen