Page "Marcel Janco" Paragraph 76

The Romanian communist regime, which cracked down on modernism, reconfirmed the confiscation of villas built by the Birou de Studii Moderne, which it then leased to other families.

One of these lodgings, the Wexler Villa, was assigned as the residence of communist poet Eugen Jebeleanu.

The regime tended to ignore Janco's contributions, which were not listed in the architectural who's who, and it became standard practice to generally omit references to his Jewish ethnicity.

He was however honored with a special issue of Secolul 20 literary magazine, in 1979, and interviewed for Tribuna and Luceafărul journals ( 1981, 1984 ).

His architectural legacy was affected by the large-scale demolition program of the 1980s.

Most of the buildings were spared, however, because they are scattered throughout residential Bucharest.

Some 20 of his Bucharest structures were still standing twenty years later, but the lack of a renovation program and the shortages of late communism brought steady decay.