delavrancea was one of the best known women architects in romania and a significant contributor to the modernist movement. her many villas in the seaside town of balcic (now balchik, bulgaria) built between 1934-38 are especially notable, taking traditional forms and local motifs and reinterpreting them in functional, modern design. here she used rubble stone retaining walls and bases, low pitched tiled roof with wide projecting cornices, combined with plain white rectangular walls. because of the unique foundation requirements of building on the coast, she employed corbelling and consoling techniques for support. the constantiniu house, built in 1935, is the most dramatically site and well known.