EAHN (European Architectural History Network) announces its future study
tour, which is opened for subscriptions.

EAHN ROMANIAN TOUR
July 1-7, 2008

BUCHAREST AND THE PAINTED MONASTERIES IN BUCOVINA

Join the EAHN on a five-day tour to Bucharest and Bucovina from
1 to 7 July, following the ETH/SAH/EAHN conference in Zurich.
The tour will begin with three days in Bucharest, where there
will be an opportunity to meet with colleagues from the University
of Architecture. We will examine Bucharest's urban development from
the Middle Ages through the nineteenth century and then focus on
the various forms of architecture in the twentieth century: the
national style, modernism, monumental neo-classicism, and the
socialist city. We will also visit the open-air Village Museum,

which features over fifty examples of rural architecture, before
leaving for Suceava. From there we will travel by bus to view some
of the painted churches of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,

including Voronet, Humor, Moldovita, and Sucevita, all of which
are UNESCO monuments. Their interior and exterior frescoes reveal
a complex and fascinating iconography. The tour ends in Bucharest.

As with all tours organized by the EAHN, every attempt is made to
keep the costs of the tour low and to encourage interchange with
local experts.

Estimated cost: 470 euros (including the accommodations in Bucharest
and Bucovina; the train ticket - sleeping coach; and private bus
in Bucharest and Bucovina). The tour price does not include the
flight to Romania or the meals; these are the responsibility of
the participant.

To express interest in participating in the tour or for more information,
please contact Carmen Popescu (crmvclicknet.ro) before April 20.

For more information see the following links:
University of Architecture "Ion Mincu", Bucharest:
www.iaim.ro/en/

UNESCO monuments: www.cimec.ro/Monumente/UNESCO/UNESCOen/index2C32.htm