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Henrieta Delavrancea

Henrieta Delavrancea
Henrieta Delavrancea - Gibory.jpg
Portrait by Eustațiu Stoenescu
Born (1897-10-19)19 October 1897
Bucharest, Romania
Died 26 March 1987(1987-03-26) (aged 89)
Bucharest, Romania
Nationality Romanian
Other names Henrieta Delavrancea-Gibory
Occupation architect
Known for First female admitted to the Superior School of Architecture in Bucharest
Spouse(s) Emile Gibory (married in 1918)

Henrieta Delavrancea (1897–1987) was a Romanian architect and one of the first female architects admitted to the Superior School of Architecture in Bucharest, but because of the suspension of her classes during World War I, she was not the first female to graduate. She was one of the most known women architects in Romania and a significant contributor to the modernist school of Romanian architecture, until state-controlled design in the communist era curtailed individuality.

Henrieta Delavrancea was born on 19 October 1897 in Bucharest, Romania to Maria Lupaşcu and Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea Because her family was from the upper levels of society and her father was both a politician and a literary figure, Delavrancea grew up surrounded by noted members of Romanian society. One of those early mentors was Ion Mincu, one of the most known Romanian architects and proponents of preservation of the nationalist identity for architecture. In 1913, she enrolled in the Superior School of Architecture, in a class of twenty, with only one other woman, Marioara Ioanovici. Though she was one of the first women admitted, she suspended her studies in 1916 because of the war.

During World War I, she served as a nurse and married Emile Gibory in 1918. They lived briefly in Paris and then moved to the mountains, living in Nehoiu. After two years, they moved to the area of Penteleu, Romania (), but in 1924, Delavrancea decided to return to her studies. In the 1926-1927 term, she graduated with her diploma and claimed afterward to be the fourth female architect of the country after “Ada Zăgănescu, Virginia Andreescu and Mimi Friedman”. This may or may not be accurate as the Romanian Architects Society, showed six female registrants in 1924: Maria Cotescu, Irineu Maria Friedman, Virginia Andreescu Haret, Maria Hogas, Antonetta Ioanovici and Ada Zăgănescu. On the other hand, Delavrancea designed her first home, called the "German House" in 1921 before she finished school while living in Nehoiu. She also might have confused the names, as Zăgănescu studied privately with Ion Mincu and is acknowledged as the first practicing female architect, Andreescu-Haret is recognized as the first graduate of the Superior school in 1919 and the first registered female architect, and Cotescu graduated from the High School of Architecture in Bucharest in 1922.


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