410:. This work comprises thirteen letters written between May 1955 and the winter of 1959, addressed to his friend Simon Bayer. The first seven, from 1955-1956, appear autobiographical in intent: the author alludes to their joint experiences as young men and their supreme self-confidence. The tone of the later ones, composed from 1957 onward, shifts. While autobiography is not completely abandoned, the focus is far more philosophical, featuring reflections on questions that had troubled the author throughout his life.
83:; the two recorded their impressions in a series of drawings that was soon the subject of an exhibition. In 1919, the friends left by ship for Marseilles and then went to Paris, where Cantacuzino met his father (still in the diplomatic service) after an absence of several years due to the war. In the French capital, they were joined by three other Romanians, including linguist
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England in 1939 with the couple's son and daughter; due to the intervention of World War II and communism, none of them ever moved back to Romania or saw him again. Sanda Cantacuzino died in the 1990s, while Șerban too became an architect. The architecture section of the
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Cantacuzino, the book included sixty-four plates and a short introduction in which the author explained his architectural philosophy. Gromort commented that the architects had conceived a Palladian palace with a strictly utilitarian purpose, likening the neoclassical building to a palazzo of
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and country houses. At the same time, he wrote essays commenting on other realms of visual art, particularly within traditional
Romanian forms. He published a substantial introductory text on architecture in 1926. The same year, he married Sanda Stirbey, also of noble descent.
153:; in Italy, he had undertaken minute research into the Renaissance architect's buildings. The book, which included twelve sketches by the author, appeared in French with a Romanian publishing house. His son Șerban was born that September. In 1929, he published
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of 1944. In the period immediately after the war, he continued his architectural activity, designing a number of villas as well as other projects, the most imposing of which is the
Institute for Studies and Power Engineering building in Bucharest.
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made a first attempt at reviving his legacy. He published a
Romanian-language volume of his writings in Paris in 1966, but its impact was not felt. A thorough anthology appeared only in 1977, but this did not include
382:, but as he could not officially declare he had given work to the blacklisted architect, paid him a salary out of his personal funds. Meanwhile, Cantacuzino set down a series of personal reflections eventually titled
418:, which became a faculty in 2003, was named after Cantacuzino in 1992. Ion Mihai Cantacuzino, a distant relative, published a biography in French in 2011; this appeared in Romanian translation the following year as
55:. His father had arrived in the Austrian capital in 1895 to work at the Romanian embassy. The family lived there until 1909, when the elder Cantacuzino was recalled and briefly named a general secretary within the
281:, an annual magazine of art and criticism that appeared in eight editions, through 1947. Cantacuzino was one of four editors, and his office and studio, at the corner of Calea Griviței with
277:. He returned to the United States in the summer of 1939, in order to attend the World's Fair, and again took to the airwaves on the subject. That autumn marked the first appearance of
250:. A tireless traveler in Europe and Asia, he published articles on Baghdad, Shiraz, the desert and the waters of the Tigris here. These were subsequently included in the 1938
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directorate. For the next three years, he was deeply preoccupied with cataloguing
Romania's old monuments. In 1956, he restored several churches in northern
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authorities against its architect, Cantacuzino. However, an inquiry determined that the building fell due to other causes, and he was not prosecuted.
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314:, a passionate plea for humanism and patriotism, was published in 1947. The same year, he wrote a still-unpublished study on the historiography of
244:. In addition to his radio work, Cantacuzino remained in the public eye through a series of columns on Romanian art and architecture published in
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59:. As an adolescent, he attended high school at Montreux and Lausanne in Switzerland, spending his vacations in Romania, especially in the
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