Gardens Of Bucharest

Name: Gardens Of Bucharest
Start: 2025-06-06T18:00:00+03:00
End: 2025-06-07T11:00:00+03:00
Location: Muzeul Casa Storck

The event will take place between June 6-8, 2025 in 2 of the studied locations.

6 and 7 June

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The event will take place between June 6-8, 2025 in 2 of the studied locations.
June 6 at 18:00 Project presentation in the Storck House Garden
The conclusions of the first phase of the study will be presented. The study is based on 4 private residential gardens and consists of historical, urban, architectural, landscape and botanical analysis. The study is accompanied by archival research in the field of visual arts.
June 8 at 9:30 Planting Action in the Ienachita House Garden.
Str. Ienachita Vacarescu no. 50, sect 4, Bucharest.
We will do some planting in the Ienachita Garden and we are open to receive plants from Bucharest gardens with local identity and flavor. If you have a plant to donate from your garden or home, if you have stories or tales from your grandparents or if you just want to participate in gardening, we are waiting for you, properly equipped.
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Muzeul Casa Storck

Strada Vasile Alecsandri 16, București 010638

The event is an open air exhibition of our research about the lost identity of small residential gardens in Bucharest. Bucharest’s historic gardens, once featured in paintings, photographs and stories, are disappearing. Increasing urban density, changing ownership and renovations are transforming these generous green spaces into decorative gardens without identity or completely eliminating them. Perceived by foreign travelers as representing a garden city, Bucharest has never corresponded to Ebenezer Howard’s definition of garden cities, but has been, for a long time, a city characterized by the presence of numerous private courtyards and cultivated spaces.
We built this project on a working hypothesis: Can the Bucharest garden be considered an element of urban identity? The Bucharest garden is distinguished by an organic, modest character and devoid of Western European or Eastern geometric rigors. It harmoniously combines ornamental flowers such as roses, tulips and chrysanthemums with utilitarian plants – grapevines, lilacs, jasmine, fruit trees and even vegetables. This type of garden, rich in scents and expression, includes traditional elements such as vine arches, flowerpots, summerhouses, planters, stone pedestals, outdoor tables and paved paths. Studying these typologies and deepening their identity character is an essential step for the recovery of an almost disappeared component of urban heritage.