Serban Cantacuzino (architect)

{{Short description|Romanian architect}}

Șerban{{Cite news |date=2018-05-04 |title=Sherban Cantacuzino, architectural writer – obituary |language=en-GB |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/05/04/sherban-cantacuzino-architectural-writer-obituary/ |access-date=2023-06-29 |issn=0307-1235}} Cantacuzino, CBE (6 September 1928,{{cite web | url=http://www.arhitectura.tuiasi.ro/facultate/g-m-cantacuzino/ | title=G.M. Cantacuzino – biografie – Facultatea de Arhitectură "G.M. Cantacuzino" }}{{cite web | url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/eekeNkTUADun7Fsqhb2KPk9b9tY/appointments | title=Sherban CANTACUZINO personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK }} in Paris – 22 February 2018 in London[https://www.libertatea.ro/ultima-ora/printul-serban-cantacuzino-murit-2152783 Prințul Șerban Cantacuzino a murit. Reputatul om de cultură s-a stins la 90 de ani], libertatea.ro, 22 February 2018. Retrieved 2018-02-22) was a Romanian architect and the founder and president of Pro Patrimonio foundation.[http://www.romanianculturalcentre.org.uk/post.php?id=76&v=1 Serban Cantacuzino.] Romanian Cultural Centre in London. Retrieved 19 March 2016.[http://www.propatrimonio.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=74&Itemid=125&lang=en Oamenii.] Pro Patrimonio Foundation. Retrieved 19 March 2016.Mihai Goțiu, [http://voxpublica.realitatea.net/politica-societate/la-o-cafea-si-un-coniac-zaraza-cu-printul-cantacuzino-o-alta-solutie-pentru-romania-43434.html La o cafea și un coniac Zaraza, cu prințul Șerban Cantacuzino. O altă soluție pentru România], realitatea.net, 22 May 2010. Retrieved 2018-02-22

Cantacuzino was the son of architect, painter and essayist Prince George Matei Cantacuzino, of the noble Cantacuzino family. His grandmother descended from the Wallachian ruler Gheorghe Bibescu and his mother Sanda was the daughter of Barbu Dimitrie Știrbei, also of a family of Romanian aristocrats.{{cite web | url=http://www.arhitectura.tuiasi.ro/?page_id=703 | title=G.M. Cantacuzino – biografie – Facultatea de Arhitectură "G.M. Cantacuzino" }} Following his parents' separation and his mother settling in England with her children in 1939,{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/05/04/sherban-cantacuzino-architectural-writer-obituary | title=Sherban Cantacuzino, architectural writer – obituary | newspaper=The Telegraph | date=4 May 2018 }} Cantacuzino was educated at Winchester College and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and was the secretary of the Royal Fine Arts Commission for more than a decade.

He was made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1988 New Year Honours.

Cantacuzino was survived by his widow, Anne, and their daughters Ilinca and Marina.{{cite web | url=https://www.ribaj.com/culture/sherban-cantacuzino-cbe-1928-2018-obituary | title=Sherban Cantacuzino CBE 1928 – 2018 | date=12 April 2018 }}