Cristina Purcar

Cristina Purcar is an architect and lecturer at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, where she teaches architectural history, art history, architectural design, and supervises diploma projects and master’s theses. She holds a post-master’s degree from the Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation (2002) and a PhD in architecture (2009), both from the Catholic University of Leuven. She is a member of INVENTARIUM, a research group for the (re)cognition of built and landscaped heritage, ICOMOS Romania, DOCOMOMO Romania, and the International Railway History Association. Her research explores the shared territories of art, architecture, and urbanity, with an ongoing focus on industrialized space in general and railway space in particular. In 2021, she was a guest lecturer of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain as part of the seminar series “‘Shall my valley be green again?’ Encounters with the post-industrial landscape.” Between 2023 and 2024, she coordinated the traveling exhibition The Art of the Urban Project. Post-Industrial Regeneration in the Practice of Marcel Smets and edited the bilingual critical catalogue of the same name. In 2025, she co-edited the collective volume of the academic conference held as part of the 2024 “Festival for Architecture Schools of Tomorrow,” Dismantled Modernities. Studies on Architecture Through the Lens of Fashion.