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Andrei Șerbescu

Andrei Șerbescu (1977) lives and works in Bucharest. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of UAUIM in 2002, year since he has also been teaching as a lecturer at the University's design studios. He was invited critic for final projects and presentations at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford (UK) and Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona (Spain). In 2011 he presented his PhD thesis about vernacular architecture in contemporary Romania.

He is one of the two founders of the architectural office ADNBA, since 2003.

Awards, recognitions

• shortlisted among the 40 projects at the European Prize for Arhitecture Mies van der Rohe Awards, Barcelona, 2015
• Milan Zlokovic Prize for the best architecture project in the Balkans area, Belgrade, 2015
• Prize of the Architecture Section – Collective houses, at the Bucharest Architecture Biennale, 2014
• Prize of the Architecture Section – Collective houses, at the Bucharest Architecture Annual, 2014
• Shortlisted project at the World of Architecture Festival, Housing Section, Singapore, 2014
• First Prize – Rehabilitation and remodeling of the Johannes Honterus courtyard, Biserica Neagră, Brașov (ADNBA + Exhibit Arhitectura), 2011
• Mention – Remodeling of Piața Universității, București (ADNBA + Exhibit Arhitectura), 2011
• Mention – Extension of the Central University Library, Cluj-Napoca, 2011
• Prize of the Timișoara Architecture Annual, category > 1000sqm, 2010
• Second Prize - Europan 10, Eisenstadt, Austria, 2010
• Second Prize ex aequo – Arhetipuri / competition for public space, Bucharest
• First Prize – Extending and functional remodeling of the National University of Arts premises, Bucharest, 2008
• Mention – Europan 9, Bisceglie, Italia, 2008
• Runner-up, RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) President’s Medals for Architectural Education, London, 2002
• Nominations at: Bucharest Architecture Biennale, Collective houses, 2014; Romanian Green Building Council Awards, Bucharest, 2014; Bucharest Architecture Biennale, category > 1000sqm, 2010; Arhitext Design Awards, rehabilitation section, 2011; Arhitext Design Awards, dwellings section, 2009; Bucharest Architecture Biennale, interior design section, 2004;

Publications, exhibitions

• Dwelling together. 6 apartment buildings by ADN BA (Locuind împreună. 6 blocuri de ADN BA), Zeppelin Zoom, Zeppelin & “Ion Mincu” University Press, Bucharest, 2014 (with Ștefan Ghenciulescu, Adrian Untaru and Bogdan Brădățeanu)
• Projects by ADNBA published in: Detail, A10, Deutsche Bauzeitung, Zeppelin, Igloo, Arhitext Design and others
• Projects by ADNBA exhibited in: Bucharest, Barcelona, Bruxelles, London, Venice, Belgrade, Vienna, Rome

“Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urban Planning (UAUIM) // lecturer

ADN BA // founder and partner, www.adnba.ro