CURRICULUM VITAE PERSONAL INFORMATION: Dana Sorina OPINCARIU Date of birth: 11. 09. 1967 Place of birth:sebes,alba Employer: Technical University of Cluj-Napoca Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism Profession: Architect Position: Academic assistant Domain of activity: Higher Education in Architecture: - Titular of course Perspective 2 nd year of study - Titular of course Ambient 3 rd year of study - Coordinator Specialised project Ambient 3 rd year of study - Coordinator Tutorials Study of Forms 1 st year of study Known foreign languages: English, French STUDIES / PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1992 Diplomat architect Ion Mincu Architecture Institute Bucharest Speciality: Architecture and Urbanism 1993-1997 Teacher Junior Assistant at the The Faculty of Civil Enginnering Department of Architecture UTCluj at the course Study of Forms and Visual Representations 1997-2003 Teacher Assistent at the The Faculty of Civil Enginnering Department of Architecture UTCluj at the courses Architecture design, Architecture design, Study of Forms and Visual Representations 2001 1
Doctoral student in the field of Civil Engineering at the The Faculty of Civil Enginnering UTCluj - Scientific supervisor Prof.Dr. Honoris Causa Mircea MIHĂILESCU 2004-2009 Teacher Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture UTCluj at the courses Architecture design, Specialized design, Perspective (Course and tutorial), Ambient (Course and tutorial) 2009-2011 Teacher Assistant at the Faculty of Architecture UTCluj at the courses - Study of Forms and Visual Representations (Tutorials), Perspective (Course and tutorial), Ambient (Course and tutorial), Specialized design PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY Authored projects: - 12 Famlily housing projects, Interior design, Urban planning studies - firm S.C. Medar S.R.L. - Sebeş-Alba Co-authored projects: - 3 projects through UTCluj contracts - 1 urban planning study through UTCluj contracts Member of: The Architects Chamber of Romania, Transylvannia Branch The Professorial Council of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, UTCluj ACADEMIC ACTIVITY Courses: Perspective 2 nd year of study, Ambient 3 rd year of study Projects/Tutorials coordination: Architecture design, Perspective Tutorials, Specialised project Ambient, Study of Forms and Visual Representations Tutorials Coordinated activities, organized within the FAU - UTCluj: 1995 Exposition - 25 years of Architectural Education in Cluj Museum of Art Cluj Collections department 1996 International student exchange UTCluj University of Liverpool UK Experimental project project tutor 1996 Study trip during the student exchange UTCluj University of Liverpool Bucharest Exhibition with the awarded projects International Contest - Bucharest 2000 1998-2011 - Preparation course for admissions at the Faculty of Architecture UTCluj 2002 Student research reference papers for the Ambient Course 2
- Exhibition of student works STUFO-Cluj - Student Fest Timişoara 2003 Exhibition of student works - Architecture versus design within the Cluj Days of Architecture - Architecture exhibition of the Transylvannia Branch of the Architects Chamber of Romania - Cluj, Student works Section - Exhibition of student works at the beginning of the academic year 2003-2004 2011 - Works and Student exhibition Architecture and Fashion within the Days of Architecture - Works and Student exhibition Architecture Object/ Object Architecture within the Days of Architecture Initiatives in the academic activity: 1998 Structure and update of the Study of Forms and Visual Representations Syllabus first year Architecture 2003 - Structure and update of the Ambient Syllabus third year Architecture 2006, 2010- Structure and update of the Perspective Syllabus second year Architecture SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH Research fields: Civil engineering and Architecture Research subject: The Structure-Shape Relation in Civil Buildings Doctoral Thesis : The implication of structures in the conception of architectural space - Scientific supervisor Prof. Dr. Ing. Mariana BRUMARU Scientific research activity: 2003 Doctoral research within an Academic research core in the field of The implication of structures in the conception of architectural space with the participation of various disciplines and teachers from UTCluj engineers and achitects (initiator) 2009-2011 Organising the research laboratory «GRAPHICS AND DESIGN CENTRE» within FAU-UTCluj - Development of the research program - Communication through drawings in architecture and civil engineering during the design process (initiator) Scientific research contracts: 1994 - Scientific research UTCluj - Valorisation of sloped terrain for residential purposes - contract 3003/1994-9B-phase 1-beneficiary M.I.S. (coauthor) 3
1995 - Scientific research UTCluj - Valorisation of sloped terrain for residential purposes -contract 5003/1995-57B-phase 2, 3 beneficiary M I.S. (coauthor) PUBLICATIONS Specialty books: 1-Mircea Sergiu MOLDOVAN, Dana Sorina OPINCARIU Designing and building chimneys -UTCluj 1996 2-Felicia OLARIU, Dana OPINCARIU, Şerban ŢIGĂNAŞ Courses and contests The Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism - collection of subjects, UTPress, 2002, ISBN 973-8335-69-8 3-Felicia OLARIU, Dana OPINCARIU, Şerban ŢIGĂNAŞ Drawing for architecture collection of subjects for admission, Utpress, 2008, ISBN 978-973-662-309-7 4- Felicia OLARIU, Dana OPINCARIU, Şerban ŢIGĂNAŞ, Ana Maria RUSU Technical Drawing & Hand Drawing collection of subjects for admission, UTPress, 2010, ISBN 978-973-662-503-4 5- Dana OPINCARIU Form and Structure Academic and research methods in architecture, UTPress 2010, ISBN 978-973-662-553-4 Specialty Catalogues: 1-Adrian IANCU, Gheorghe VAIS, Rodica CODOREANU, Dorina VLAD, Dana OPINCARIU, Şerban ŢIGĂNAŞ Architecture Design project catalogue of the first year of study, UTCluj, 1999 2-Dana OPINCARIU Ambient Project catalogue of the third year of study 2008-2009, UTPress, Cluj, 2011, ISBN 978-973-662-625-8 3-Dana OPINCARIU Ambient Project catalogue of the third year of study 2009-2010, UTPress, Cluj, 2011, ISBN 978-973-662-629-6 4-Dana OPINCARIU Ambient Student Essays, UTPress, Cluj, 2011, ISBN 978-973-662-630-2 4
National/International scientific papers: 1-Felicia OLARIU, Carmen MARZA, Eugenia DUCA, Dana OPINCARIU The Geometrical Loci-an Instrument for solving tangent problems, using the descriptive Geometry Methods, The 9 th International Conference of Geometry and Graphics, Johannesburg, South Africa, 28-31July, 2000 2-Dana OPINCARIU, Şerban ŢIGĂNAŞ, Felicia OLARIU CAD Graphics in Architecture, Method and Practice, National symposium with international attendance, Technical Graphics and Design, Transylvania University, Brasov, June 5-7, 2003, ISBN 973-635-196-3 3- Felicia OLARIU, Dana OPINCARIU, Anca Andreea SUCIU Geometric transformations used in technical symmetric representations, National symposium with international attendance, Technical Graphics and Design, Transylvania University, Brasov, June 5-7, 2003, ISBN 973-635-195-5 4-Dana OPINCARIU, Şerban ŢIGĂNAŞ Graphic Connections in Architectural Design, Constructions 2003 International Conference, UTCN, Cluj, May 16-17, 2003, ISBN 973-9350-87-9 5-Dana OPINCARIU, Şerban ŢIGĂNAŞ Graphic Structures in the Education of the Architects - Constructions 2003 International Conference, UTCN, Cluj, May 16-17, 2003, ISBN 973-9350-87-9 6-Dana OPINCARIU, Şerban ŢIGĂNAŞ Textures, the Apparent Face of the Building Elements - Constructions 2003 International Conference, UTCN, Cluj, May 16-17, 2003, ISBN 973-9350-87-9 7-Şerban ŢIGĂNAŞ, Dana OPINCARIU Conceiving the Architectural Space as Light Shaping - Lighting 2003 International Conference, UTCN, Cluj, June, 2003 8-Dana OPINCARIU, Şerban ŢIGĂNAŞ The perfection of imperfection - Days of Architecture International Conference, UTCN, Cluj, Act Urban, May 12-17, 2003, UTPress ISBN 973-662-038-7 9-Florin POP, Şerban ŢIGĂNAŞ, Dana OPINCARIU Lighting in Eastern Europe: A Romanian Case Study, Conceving the Architectural Space as Light Shaping - International Invited Seminar on- Advanced Daylighting and Artificial Lighting System in Architecture, Kyung Hee University, Korea, October 15, 2003 10-Dana OPINCARIU Extremes in the aesthetic attitude of architecture and structure, IAHS International Conference, 2007, Melbourne, Australia 5
ISBN 978-1-921166-68-6 11-Dana OPINCARIU, Şerban ŢIGĂNAŞ STUFO:Study of forms- Comunicating by Design Conference,Sint Lucas, Brussels, April 2009, ISBN 9789081323802 12- Şerban ŢIGĂNAŞ, Dana OPINCARIU, What the architects are expecting from the artificial light / Lighting International Conference, LAEL, 2009/Lighting engineering Cluj, ISSN 1454-5837 13- Dana OPINCARIU Structural systems and the quality of daylight in buildings, Acta Technica Napocensis - Civil Engineering Architecture vol.54 / Cluj /August 15 2011 ISSN 1221-5848 14- Dana OPINCARIU Structure and building façades. The new concept of ornament, Acta Technica Napocensis - Civil Engineering Architecture vol.54 / Cluj /August 15 2011 ISSN 1221-5848 Published specialty articles: 1- Şerban ŢIGĂNAŞ, Dana OPINCARIU, Religious architecture today: Where are churches being built?-arhitext Design, 12, 1996 2-Dana OPINCARIU Windows- Arhitext Design, 3, 2001, ISSN 1224-886x 3-Dana OPINCARIU About admissions in architecture: The Fish of Columbus - Logia, 5/2002, UTPress, ISSN 1454-8771 4-Dana OPINCARIU STUFO experiments - Logia, 5/2002 UTPress, ISSN 1454-8771 5-Felicia OLARIU, Dana OPINCARIU, Şerban ŢIGĂNAŞ Admission in Architecture 2003 - Logia 6/2003, UTPress, ISSN 1454-8771 6-Dana OPINCARIU STUFO Event - Logia, 6/2003, UTPress, ISSN 1454-8771 7- Felicia OLARIU, Dana OPINCARIU, Şerban ŢIGĂNAŞ New in Architecture Admissions Logia 8/2005, UTPress, ISSN 1454-8771 8- Dana OPINCARIU, Şerban ŢIGĂNAŞ Workshop experiments Logia 8/2005, UTPress, ISSN 1454-8771 6
9 - Dana OPINCARIU, Şerban ŢIGĂNAŞ Architects + Engineers = Builders Logia 8/2005, UTPress, ISSN 1454-8771 7