Maria Virginia Andreescu-Haret (1894, Bucharest – 1962, Bucharest) was the first woman who had the right to practice architecture in Romania. In 1919, she graduated from the Higher School of Architecture in Romania, and her diploma, bearing the number 62, is the first diploma in architecture awarded by the school to a woman. She was the niece of painter Ioan Andreescu and in 1928 she married Spiru I. Haret (1892–1970), civil engineer and nephew of the scientist Spiru C. Haret (1851–1912). Virginia Andreescu Haret and Spiru I. Haret became collaborators and had a son together, Radu Sp. Haret, who later became an engineer. Between 1919 and 1922, Virginia Andreescu worked as an architect at the Historical Monuments Commission and in the architectural practice of prof. arch. Petre Antonescu. After training in Rome (1921–1922), where she also participated in archaeological research, returning to Romania, she worked for the „Modern Construction” Society for a short time, and since 1922 she was employed in the Technical Service of the Ministry of Public Instruction, within the House of Schools, where she worked until 1947. Virginia Andreescu-Haret is the first woman who reached the degree of architect General Inspector in our country. After 1947, she worked in the A.G.I.R., then at the Technical Publishing House, at the Romanian-Soviet Design Institute and at the C.S.C.A.S., until 1954, when she retired. She completed over 130 buildings, including over 40 school projects, 17 single-family houses and 26 residential buildings and collaborated with architects Jean Pompilian, Ernest Doneaud and Ion Maier (Mayer). She collaborated with Prof. Arch. Nicolae Ghika-Budești in the preparation of surveys of the churches in Wallachia and in the four volumes of „The evolution of architecture in Muntenia and Oltenia”. Her most famous works in Bucharest are: Palace of the „Romanian Youth” Society, in collaboration with architect Jean Pompilian; „Cantemir-Vodă” National High School; „Gheorghe Șincai” National High School (Șerban Vodă wing); the „Holy Trinity Ghencea” church, in collaboration with architect Jean Pompilian; the Communal Society for Cheap Housing in Rosetti Square, corner with Hristo Botev Blvd., in collaboration with architect Jean Pompilian. Starting with November 1st, 1960, the architect Virginia Maria (Andreescu) Haret received a pension for special merits, amounting to 1200 lei per month, and the data from her pension file in the archives of the Union of Architects of Romania and the album with the architectural works of the architect, made by her son, Radu Sp. Haret, can complete the picture of the first woman architect in our country.