Anca Petrescu

Mira Anca Victoria Mărculeţ Petrescu (born 20 March 1949 in Sighişoara, † October 30, 2013 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian architect and politician. She designed, among other things the Palace of Parliament in Bucharest.

Petrescu was the daughter of a physician. In 1973 she completed her studies in architecture at the University of Architecture and Urban Planning Ion Mincu in Bucharest from and dedicated her diploma from the " urbanization of urban wasteland ." As the then completely unknown person in 1980 she won the architectural competition for the "House of the People", the later Parliament Palace, a monument to the power of the dictatorial ruling Nicolae Ceauşescu. As the site of the 15 -meter-high hill Arsenal in the otherwise rather flat Bucharest was chosen. With the start of construction in 1983 she took over the responsibility for up to 20,000 workers. For the palace and the one before running Magistrale thousands of people had relocated, demolished much of the old town and at times up to 40 percent of the gross national product of the impoverished country to be expended. One requirement was that all the materials of the palace had come from Romania.

With the death of Ceausescu's a multi-year freeze was imposed and sought a solution to the palace. Petrescu designed, meanwhile, holiday resorts for the Club Med in Florida and the Bahamas. From 1993 she was entrusted with the completion of the palace. In 2004, Petrescu into politics. They ran in circles Mehedinţi for the nationalist oriented Partidul România Mare and was until 2008 Member of the Romanian Parliament.

Petrescu was married and had two children. On August 5, 2013, it had a serious car accident near Izvin. Petrescu fell in September into a coma from which she never awoke, and died of complications a month later, on October 30, 2013, in Spitalul Clinic de Urgenţǎ Floreasca in Bucharest. At the funeral she was laid in her palace.