Octavian CIUPITU, architect

Building, interior, and landscape architect

In Sweden:
• Home and mailing address: Furuvägen 4, 69550 Finnerödja
• Mobile: +46.735-135 618.
  

In the U.S.A.:
• Home: 2918 Shadow Trail Dr. Houston, TX 77082
• Mailing address: P.O. Box 820196, Houston, TX 77282-0196
• Mobile: +1.832-359-1513


• E-mail: octavian.ciupitu@octavianciupitu.com

Architectural projects:

• Architectural competitions

  Competition for the Ladugårdsängen community in Örebro, Sweden, 1989.

  Some examples:

  • Competition for the New People's House in Hallsberg, Sweden, 1987.
  • Competition for a protection wall against noise on Hjalmar Branting street in Gothenburg, Sweden, 1989.
  • Competition for the Ladugårdsängen community in Örebro, Sweden, 1989.
  • International competition for the New Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece, 1990.
    Bibliography:
    • The Classicist (USA), no. 2/1995.
  • Competition for the Södertörn College
    in Flemingsberg, Greater Stockholm, Sweden, 1996

Techno-economic studies and technical descriptions.

• Techno-economic studies

  for town planning, new buildings, and major repairs
  and transformations:
  • base for programs,
  • programs for projects,
  • comparing economic studies,
  • studies for localization,
  • facade programs and studies, a. o.

  Some examples:

  • Suggestions to rebuilding and build The Opera Theatres of Gothenburg, Sweden, 1985.
  • Techno-economic study to rebuilding of the Skogås School
    (architect: K. V. Ottesen, 1960) in Skogas (Stockholm), Sweden, 1992.
    Drawings:
    • Plan of ground level.
    • Plan of level 3.
    • South-East facade. Section A-A.

• Building projects

  Architectural drawings and technical descriptions for: survey plans, details of urbanization, building authorizations, applications for building offer, building projects, interior design, building descriptions. Dwelling for one family at Älvängen, Sweden, 1979.

  Architectural drawings and descriptions for building and remaking of: collective dwellings, individual dwellings, schools, dining rooms, self services, restaurants, commercial buildings, libraries, office buildings, educational buildings, muzeums, theatres, exhibitions, fairs, transport buildings, industrial shops, a. o. Suggestion to dwellings for elder people, Sweden, 1988.

  My specialty: interiors which do not produce allergies and cancer, and stimulant architectural experiences in a contemporary classical spirit.

  The extension of the Kville Garage, Gothenburg 1978.

  Some examples:

  • The rebuilding of the Järnbrott School, J House, Gothenburg, Sweden, 1985.
  • The rebuilding of the Karl Johan School
    (architect: Gunnar Asplund, 1927) in Gothenburg,
    Sweden, 1987.
    Drawings:
    • Plan of the attic.
    • Section A-A.
    • Eastern facade.
    Pictures:
    • View toward East.
    • View toward North.
  • Sture Gallery's shop gallery in Stockholm, Sweden, , 1988-89.
    A virtual walk through the shop gallery at the Sture Gallery in Stockholm, Sweden.
    Bibliography:
    • arkitektur the swedish review of architecture, 6/1989, pp. 14-18, 24, 59-60;
      
    • ABITARE (Italy), no. 287/1990, pp. 114-115;
      
    • CURIERUL ROMÂNESC (THE ROMANIAN COURIER) (Sweden), nr. 175-177, pp. 1, 14-15;
      
    • Silvia Constantinescu: EXIL - Oameni si idei, Skogås 1995, pp. 241-248.

• Interior design

  The rebuilding of the attic to a library, the Torpa School, Gothenburg, Sweden, 1980. Interior design at the Café Gateau in the Sture Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, 1988-1989.

  Interior design projects for:
  • restaurants,
  • self service restaurants,
  • schools,
  • meeting halls,
  • office buildings,
  • museums and exhibitions,
  • libraries, a. o.
  Some examples:
  • The rebuilding of the attic to a library,
    the Torpa School,
    Gothenburg, Sweden, 1980.
  • Interior design at the classrooms for
    household education at the Lövgärdet School,
    Gothenburg, Sweden, 1981.
  • Interior design at the Sturehov Restaurant
    in the Sture Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden 1988.
  • Interior design at the Café Gateau
    in the Sture Gallery,
    Stockholm, Sweden 1988-98.

Other consulting activities:

• Graphical and industrial design:

  Lighting fittings in the shop gallery at the Sture Gallery in Stockholm, Sweden, 1988-1989.

  • Graphical design for:
    • advertising flyers,
    • booklets,
    • pamphlets,
    • prints,
    • books,
    • computerized graphical design,
    • pages on WWW.
  • Industrial design for:
    • lighting fittings,
    • furniture, a. o.

  Some examples:

  • Lighting fittings and settee in
    the shop gallery at the Sture Gallery in Stockholm, Sweden, 1988-1989.

• Multimedia presentations:

  multimedia design and production for:
  • CD-ROM discs,
  • WWW.

  Some examples:

  • ALFRED NOBEL
    LIFE, WORK AND LEGACY
    A PRESENTATION
    on CD-ROM disc
    for STCR Publishing House, Skogås, Sweden, 1996.

Knowledge furtherance activities:

• Education

  in the following domains:
  • the history of the architecture,
  • the history of the arts,
  • the history of the furniture and the interior design,
  • drawing,
  • painting in water colors,
  • architectural drawing,
  • compared classic architecture,
  • the methodology of the architectural sketching.

  Some examples:

  • Class of the methodology of the architectural sketching at the Royal School of Technology, School of Architecture, section for the methodology of the architectural design, winter season 1992/1993, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Series of lectures of art history
    at the Folk University of South-West Stockholm, Sweden, 1996.

• Architectural research

  with main interest for:

  • the introduction of the classic architecture in Sweden,
    
  • the king Gustav III as a landscape architect,
    
  • the computerizing of the archives for old architectural drawings,
    
  • the methodology of the architectural sketching.

  Some examples:

  • "Villa Pisani i Bagnolo di Lonigo (Vicenza), Italy - one of
    Andrea Palladio's answer to the villa question",
    article (in Swedish) in
    Nordisk Arkitekturforskning /
    Nordic Journal of Architectural Research,
    vol. 5, no. 1/1992, pp. 123-134.
    
  • "L'origine dell'architettura classica in Svezia" (The origin of the classic architecture in Sweden), paper and lecture (in Italian) at the University "La Sapienza", College of Architecture, Department of history of the architecture, Rome, Italy, on April 30, 1992.
    
  • "I parchi svedesi di età neoclassica", (The Neo-Classic Swedish Parks), paper and lecture (in Italian) at Convegno Dal giardino al parco urbano (The Convent From garden to urban park) in Aosta, Italy, April 15-16, 1993.
    
  • "The garden architecture and the thinking in the French-Swedish 18th Century", paper and lecture (in Swedish) at the Centre Culturel Suédois in Paris, France, on March 19-20, 1994.
    With a grant from the Helgo Zettervall Foundation, Sweden.
    
  • "Dal giardino anglo-francese al parco filosofico - Un saggio sulle vicende delle idee e dei lavori di architettura da giardino del re Gustavo III" (From the English-French garden to the philosophic park - A study of the development of the ideas and the works of garden architecture of the king Gustav III), paper (in Italian) to the IV Convegno Internazionale Parchi e giardini storici, parchi letterari (The 4th International Convent Historical Parks and Gardens, Literary parks), in Racconigi, Italy, on September 22-24, 1994.
  • A VIRTUAL HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE
  • EARLY ARCHITECTURE IN AUSTRIA
  • Gunnar Asplund, architect

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