Architecture graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1939, Toma Barbu Socolescu will work during the time of its studies on the interior of the transatlantic liner SS Normandie.

University Assistant at the Ion Mincu Architecture Institute (Bucharest) in 1939, he became the Architect Designer for the Design Institute for Industrial Buildings until 1952.

From 1952 to 1958, he will serve as Chief Architect Designer at the Design Institute dor Oil Refineries Institutul de Proiectari pentru Instalatii Petroliere IPIP SA).

From 1958-1960, he will be acting as Architect Advisor at the Architecture and Buildings Design Institute for Food Industries & Consummers Cooperative Societies.

Professor at the Technical School of Architecture and Town Building (Şcoala Tehnică de Arhitectură şi Construcţia Oraşelor) from 1960 to 1967 He will come back to architectural design between 1967 and 1969, during which he produced many civil and industrial buildings, including a Pepsi-Cola plant in 1966.

Painter, he exhibited his watercolors in an exhibition organized by the Union of Architects of the Socialist Republic of Romania in Bucharest in 1954.
Architecture graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1939, Toma Barbu Socolescu will work during the time of its studies on the interior of the transatlantic liner SS Normandie.
University Assistant at the Ion Mincu Architecture Institute (Bucharest) in 1939, he became the Architect Designer for the Design Institute for Industrial Buildings until 1952.
From 1952 to 1958, he will serve as Chief Architect Designer at the Design Institute dor Oil Refineries Institutul de Proiectari pentru Instalatii Petroliere IPIP SA).
From 1958-1960, he will be acting as Architect Advisor at the Architecture and Buildings Design Institute for Food Industries & Consummers Cooperative Societies.
Professor at the Technical School of Architecture and Town Building (Şcoala Tehnică de Arhitectură şi Construcţia Oraşelor) from 1960 to 1967 He will come back to architectural design between 1967 and 1969, during which he produced many civil and industrial buildings, including a Pepsi-Cola plant in 1966.
Painter, he exhibited his watercolors in an exhibition organized by the Union of Architects of the Socialist Republic of Romania in Bucharest in 1954.
Toma Barbu Socolescu