ABSTRACT
The fame Anca Petrescu (1949–2013) gained as the author of the People’s House in Bucharest seemed unfair to those who worked as architects in the last decade of Ceaușescu’s regime. Even if professionals consider the building to be a monstrous work of kitsch, it is still the best known and the most visited piece of communist architecture in Romania. The people after whom it is named are actually proud of it. Anca Petrescu lived and died being proud of it, too.
