Horia Creangă

Horia Creangă (20 July 1892 – 1 August 1943) was a Romanian architect and key figure of the modernist movement in Romania.

His mentor, Gustave Umbdenstock, then secured a position for him in the Romanian Nord Railway company,[3] and in late 1926, he returned to Romania with his wife Lucia.

[3] Creangă was one of the first architects in Romania to adopt the basic elements of modernist design, in designs which progressed rapidly from complex stepped forms in his first projects of the late 1920s to simple unadorned volumes, or dominant horizontal and vertical massing in the 1930s.

In 1935, he opened an office with architects Haralamb Georgescu and Nicolae Nedelescu, working primarily for three clients: ARO insurance, Malaxa industries, and Bucharest City Hall.

The ARO building which made his reputation and influenced the embrace of Modernism in Romania was fiercely criticized as well.