Irina eftimie

Irina is a Junior Architect at John Toates Architecture and Design who graduated from Drexel University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture. She started her studies in her home country, Romania, and then continued her studies in the US. She had the opportunity to make comparative studies of different cultures, different architectural typologies and the involvement of social, economic and cultural aspects in the architectural setting.  Living and studying in a foreign setting focuses attention on issues taken for granted in familiar surroundings.

In addition to Irina’s passion for architecture, she enjoys caving, discovering and mapping new underground passages in caves all around the world. Inhospitable and hard to access, caves are almost untouched worlds and ideal traps for scientific evidence, environments that promote efficient and effective communication, decision-making, problem-solving, leadership and team dynamics. Irina also enjoys sketching and producing maps for the passages she discovers, a way of exercising her architectural skills in her hobby.

Irina Eftimie
Junior Architect

Education

Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, August 2015 - July 2019
Bachelor of Architecture

Spiru Haret University, Bucharest, Romania, September 2009 - August 2013
Architecture Studies

Professional Experience

DEDC, LLC, October 2014 - January 2016; February 2017 - Present
Senior CAD Operator, Junior Electrical Designer

John Lister Architects, February 2016 - February 2017
Intern Architect

S.C. Concis Prointect S.R.L., July 2011 - October 2013
Intern Architect

A.S. Sfinx Garda, Summer 2010; Summer 2009
Teacher’s Aide

S.C. Total S.R.L., Summer 2008; Summer 2009
Clerk