◾️ (alt+) Architect
🟰 Răzvan Mircea Nica is an architect, researcher and educator based in Iași, Romania. He is Associate Professor and Vice-Dean at the “G.M. Cantacuzino” Faculty of Architecture, Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași, where he has taught architectural theory, spatial morphology and the relationship between architecture and society since 2007.
He holds a PhD in Architecture from “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism in Bucharest (2013), with a dissertation on ephemerality in architecture. His research addresses spatial morphology, architectural pedagogy, and the social and cinematic imaginaries that shape built space. He is the author or co-author of four books on architectural morphology and representation, and co-editor of the bilingual volume Beyond Dystopia: Society, Architecture, and Cinema (2026).
He is the founder of Archsynopsis, a visual archive that treats architectural analysis as a drawing practice, an extension of his interest in what diagrams can show that photographs cannot.
Beyond the university, he co-founded ALT+A, an association for education, research and cultural initiatives in architecture. Within it he co-coordinates alt+CONTEST, where architects and students enter open international competitions as equals, treating briefs as research questions and entries as design hypotheses. He coordinates alt+START, a free preparatory programme for high-school students from rural and low-income backgrounds applying to architecture schools. And he is part of SF(a) Society. Film. Architecture, an interdisciplinary laboratory that reads the city through cinema, now in its fifth season, with more than 380 participants and guests including Dan and Lia Perjovschi, Ștefan Ghenciulescu, Dana Vais, Anca Horvath, Viola Ruhse and Federico Babina.
He has lectured as a keynote speaker at Aalborg University, presented at ArtsIT Dubai, and taught as a visiting lecturer in Lisbon, Istanbul and Reggio Calabria.
What connects these is a conviction that theoretical inquiry, visual experimentation and teaching are not three activities but one.
Contact: asociatia@altplusa.org
ORCID: 0009-0008-7705-9090
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