Doina Marilena Ciocănea

After the fall of Nicolae Ceaușescu, the Romanian Parliament Palace occupied it followed, in 1997, by the Museum of Abstract Art, a conference center and other administrative offices.

[3] After state-sponsored companies were terminated, Ciocănea was chief architect for PREDA from 1990 to 1994 and later for MACONZ International; during this time, she mainly designed private residences.

In 1996 she won a scholarship for a 4-month residence at the University Complutense of Madrid to specialize in environmental policy and urban ecology.

In 2015 she coordinated the summer school where the students conducted research on the built patrimony in Sibiu, Romania, to then propose areas of architectural heritage to be protected.

In December 2015 the results were exhibited at the National Theatre in Bucharest and in February 2016 in the Information Center of the Town Hall in Sibiu, sponsored by the Romanian Union of Architects.