1126. Bucaresti, B-dul Take Ionescu

Dear Elena,

The cinema Scala in Bucharest was built by one of 

the leader architects of the 1930s pioneering Modernist movement in Germany: Rudolf Fränkel. He was also 

the designer of the Lichtberg Cinema, another celebrated film theater built in Berlin in 1929, that shares with the Scala its reminiscences of the compelling expressionist architecture of Erich Mendelsohn.

Kind regards,
R

1024. Bucaresti, Calea Victoriei. Palatul Adriatica

Dear Adrian,

Although I know your favorite city is Tel-Aviv 

I'm sending you a vintage postcard of Bucharest, 

another city that you like too. The building in the 

picture is the Adriatica Asigurarea Building, a 

hidden jewel of Modernist architecture. It was 

built in 1935 by German-Jewish architect Rudolf 

Fränkel who had to flee from Nazi Germany in 

1933. Fränkel also completed another fantastic 

Modernist building of Bucharest: the Scala cinema.

Best regards,
R