during world war i, she served as a nurse and married emile gibory in 1918. they lived briefly in paris and then moved to the mountains, living in nehoiu. after two years, they moved to the area of , but in 1924, delavrancea decided to return to her studies. in the 1926-1927 term, she graduated with her diploma and claimed afterward to be the fourth female architect of the country after “ada zăgănescu, virginia andreescu and mimi friedman”. this may or may not be accurate as the romanian architects society, showed six female registrants in 1924: maria cotescu, irineu maria friedman, virginia andreescu haret, maria hogas, antonetta ioanovici and ada zăgănescu. on the other hand, delavrancea designed her first home, called the "german house" in 1921 before she finished school while living in nehoiu. she also might have confused the names, as zăgănescu studied privately with ion mincu and is acknowledged as the first practicing female architect, andreescu-haret is recognized as the first graduate of the superior school in 1919 and the first registered female architect, and cotescu graduated from the high school of architecture in bucharest in 1922.