Toma Barbu Socolescu [SEP] father
Toma Barbu Socolescu
Toma Barbu Socolescu a Romanian architect, son of Toma T. Socolescu and grandson of Toma N. Socolescu, functionalist in spite of himself, he had to espouse the directives of the Socialist Republic of Romania.
Biography.
Architecture graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1939, Toma Barbu Socolescu will work during the time of its studies on the interior of the transatlantic liner "SS Normandie".
University Assistant at the Ion Mincu Architecture Institute (Bucharest) in 1939, he became
Career Communist period.
He refused to integrate into the Communist-sponsored organization of architects, and was considered as an "enemy of the people" and was persecuted by the Communist authorities. His property was nationalized in the 1950s. He was not allowed to practice as an architect and was expelled from his Păulești estate on 21 February 1952. He moved in with his son Toma Barbu Socolescu in Bucharest. The Socolescu family was harassed by the "Securitate" almost until his death in 1960. Left without an income, he