Graduated from the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning of the University of Stuttgart in 2000, where he is currently working as postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Urban Planning.
As an architect, Dan has worked in Stuttgart and Paris, with his expertise encompassing projects of architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture.
In 2010, he got his PhD with a study on Romanian architect George Matei Cantacuzino (1899–1960) (summa cum laude).
Since 2012 he has curated exhibitions in Germany, England and Romania, and is committed to the sustainable urban development of Stuttgart through the Civic Association Info-Laden Rosenstein. His writings include publications in German, English, Romanian and Chinese.
His monograph George Matei Cantacuzino: A Hybrid Modernist was published by Wasmuth in 2014 (Romanian edition by Simetria & Wasmuth in 2016), and the monographic exhibition of the same title was shown in Stuttgart (2012), Munich (2012/13), Karlsruhe (2013), London (2014), Berlin (2015), Weimar (2016), and Suceava (2016, in co-operation with Ilinca Cantacuzino, British-Romanian painter and granddaughter of G.M. Cantacuzino). His latest publication is the first English edition of G.M. Cantacuzino’s Palladio. A Critical Essay (Berlin & Cluj 2024; French original published in Bucharest 1928/1932).
His main research interest is the relationship between tradition and modernity.
Since 2022 he is Life Member of St John’s College, University of Cambridge, UK, and since 2024 member of Deutscher Werkbund Baden-Württemberg.
