

Art Safari, Artmark, SinCronic, ART7, ARGO, Urban Scenarios for Bucharest, Fundația Comunitară București have been with us since the beginning. The friends who have encouraged and counseled us are Urban INC, MKBT and ARCEN. Those who shaped our words and ideas are Laura Iane and VÂNĂ. And those who offered us support, even if we had just gotten introduced, are New Concept Travel – American Express.
If you want to help us with a donation, download, fill in and file until March 25 th the D200 or D230 form.
Maria Duda studied architecture in the same Swiss village as Matei Bogoescu, a small forgotten place where the only options were dining, talking and working together with the other 150 foreign students and teachers. Matei went on for masters studies in Delft, where he met Alexandru Belenyi, freshly escaped from Bucharest’s academic system. Once returned home, they all went into teaching: Maria teamed up with Raluca, also freshly back from Leuven, at Spiru, while Matei and Alex held studios in City Planning at Mincu. Ștefan Hillerin is the one changing the variables in our matrix and giving us a different grasp on reality. He is a cinematographer and film producer, and while also working with people, places and ideas, his views and experience enhance our take on things. Since last winter BAZA welcomed two honorary members: Adrian Buga, art historian and curator, and Alexandru Dumitrescu, a lawyer with a passion for socio-cultural projects.
1. BAZA opens buildings, streets, minds and urban treasures
2. BAZA is the place we gather to in order to change the city
3. BAZA welcomes and grows the active fresh minds of the city
4. BAZA hosts plans, ideas, dreams and revolutions, but mostly evolutions
5. BAZA desires a present and a future. The past holds back
6. BAZA intervenes in the city, offering it new approaches and dimensions
7. BAZA understands the city because it does not believe, it seeks
8. BAZA listens, writes, reads, podcasts, webs and publishes
9. BAZA makes up a new Bucharest onto the old one’s structure
10. BAZA denies recipes, elitism, long speeches, star systems and stubborn freezes in the project!
the city, immersing ourselves in its urban situations. We look for the questions that start dialogues with the public we then involve into understanding and critically searching for answers and solutions.
means to better and promote the city’s livability and urban culture.
applying the minimal intervention that generates the largest impact, offering that substantial, but unexplored, improvement.