I express my passion for life by doing: architecture, woodworking, design, sports, music, drawing, learning about consciousness, and other stuff. In my perception, passion and creativity are very close to each other and fuel one another. Passion ignites the creativity. The energy of passion and creativity drive us from within. Through our actions they become expressed outside of ourselves through different aspects like architecture or woodwork.

I was born in Romania in the region known as Transylvania, in a small city called Deva. I grew up in a family where the study of mathematics, geometry, and engineering where very present. My father worked as an engineer and my mother as a math teacher. This is how I fell in love with geometrical shapes and numbers.

It was in my last years of study at the “School of sports and gymnastics”, when the time came to choose the high school I should follow. When I was 13 years old, I remember starting to build shapes out of paper and somehow managed to build all of the basic geometric shapes. At that point, the passion for expressing myself through drawing, painting, and woodworking began to intensify. At the age of 14 I realized that I would love to learn about Architecture at The School of Arts and Music. I found out that there was a class of Architecture at that school, so for the next 4 years I played with painting, woodworking, scale modeling, and pottery. These were activities that I dearly loved.

After graduating from high school, I wanted to become an architect and went on and followed the University of Architecture and Urban Planning in the city of Cluj-Napoca. From the third year of school, I started working as intern student architect for an architecture and urban planning office. Here’s where I found a wonderful team that was open, supportive, very creative and dynamic. Soon enough I felt in love with the place and with the team. At first I was working on scale models, an activity that became one of my favorites even to this day, later on I bake a draftsmen. For me, the whole process of birthing a house or a office building felt amazing and very rewarding.

After I graduated from the University, I gained more experience over the next couple of years and started to work at bigger projects. I was finally a freelancer in partnership with other architects and independent contractors. At the age of 28 I received an invitation to work in Oslo, Norway and was self-employed in partnership with a general contractor and a friend of mine. For the next four years I designed and built custom made furniture out of solid wood.