
Sorina-Ioana Dumitru
ASFA Member & AYLP Fellow 2024
Sorina Dumitru is an architect practicing in Romania. She is the president of the HUBS Association, an NGO dedicated to bridging the gap between education and professional life.
Sorina has a PhD in architecture and has been teaching architecture at the University of Architecture and Urbanism Ion Mincu in Bucharest, as well as providing educational content online. Her activities at HUBS are of more practical nature, using digital fabrication, through 3D modelling, programming CNCs and 3D printers to bring virtual ideas into real life. Her unique leadership style has made possible a series of innovative projects at HUBS in fields related to digital fabrication.
Her team members have mostly been of multidisciplinary backgrounds while the approach to the workload has been of transdisciplinary nature, in which trust, collaboration and, above all, proper communication is key. The broader term for this style is feminine leadership and, through their practical, innovative projects, the team at HUBS has demonstrated that it is the ideal style for interdisciplinary results.