ABSTRACT
Buildings considered for this study were selected based on the typology: Multi-storey structure with reinforced concrete frame. In most cases they were for housing, housing being the predominant architecture program of the Modern Movement, translated also in representatives of the so-called "other modernism"s. Examples of conservation of residential buildings, however, are rare, so the typology selection had to be extended to other programs and / or periods of time. Representatives from the countries where residential real estate is in central urban context, such as sustainable housing identified by Sonne (2009) as such, have been chosen, in addition to those in Romania and Italy, the subject of study: comparative examples from countries of medium or moderate seismic risk. If we think at representatives from Greece, where the Athens Charter 1933 was launched, defining urban regulations that have helped defining the typology in Romania and Portugal, where seismic codes were applied to the frame structure between the onset of modernity in 1755, when this was done in timber. Since they are not geographically adjacent countries, to find the influence of structures typical of other European countries is to be seeked for in the mobility of architects, considering in this work the first architect moving between Romania and Italy and an architect from Germany, the country has implemented a third material for framework structures, steel, but from where the structural principles for reinforced concrete construction in Romania come.
