Wallachia vs transylvania
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Sherban Cantacuzino CBE 1928 – 2018
Sherban Cantacuzino was an architect, conservationist, writer, lecturer, critic, teacher of the history of architecture and secretary of the Royal Fine Art Commission (RFAC). When he was 11 he left Romania for Paris and then an English education with his mother and sister, by which time his father was stranded at home amid WWII and the subsequent Communist regime. The family never again saw George Matei Cantacuzino – described as a Ruskin of Romania – despite constant attempts to do so. But though Sherban lived with the fact that his father was cruelly restricted for 32 years of both their lives, there was an extraordinary parallel in their cultural trajectories.
Sherban studied architecture at Cambridge, a subject his father had also studied. There he met such contemporaries as Philip Dowson – later head of Arup Associates – who often recalled Sherban’s greatest skill, as a cook. Later, lunch at the RFAC, courtesy of Sherban’s own hand, became a treasured event.
He started his architectural career in pract
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Șerban Cantacuzino
Prince of Wallachia between 1678 and 1688
For the actor, see Șerban Cantacuzino (actor). For the Romanian architect, see Serban Cantacuzino (architect).
"Șerban Vodă" redirects here. For the inn he founded and that bore his name, see Șerban Vodă Inn.
Șerban Cantacuzino (Romanian pronunciation:[ʃerˈbankantakuziˈno]), (1634/1640 – 29 October 1688) was a Prince of Wallachia between 1678 and 1688.
Biography
Șerban Cantacuzino was a member of the Romanian branch of the Cantacuzino noble family. He was forced to take part in the Ottoman campaign which ended in their defeat at the Battle of Vienna, despite sympathizing with the Holy League.[1] According to Gaster (1911) it was alleged that he conceived the plan of marching on Constantinople to drive the Ottoman Empire out of Europe, the western powers having promised him their moral support.[2]
Cantacuzino introduced maize to Wallachia and present-day Romania,[3][4] in time the staple food—it was not yet extensively cultivated during his reign. He agre
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Serban Cantacuzino (architect)
Romanian architect
Șerban[1] Cantacuzino, CBE (6 September 1928,[2][3] in Paris – 22 February 2018 in London[4]) was a Romanian architect and the founder and president of Pro Patrimonio foundation.[5][6][7]
Cantacuzino was the son of architect, painter and essayist Prince George Matei Cantacuzino, of the noble Cantacuzino family. His grandmother descended from the Wallachian ruler Gheorghe Bibescu and his mother Sanda was the daughter of Barbu Dimitrie Știrbei, also of a family of Romanian aristocrats.[8] Following his parents' separation and his mother settling in England with her children in 1939,[4][9] Cantacuzino was educated at Winchester College and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and was the secretary of the Royal Fine Arts Commission for more than a decade.[4][7]
He was made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 19
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