New Lviv in Contexts: Visions, Architecture, Modern Times
Yuliya Bohdanova, Yulian Chaplinskyy
26.8.2015, 19:00
Ratusha Restaurant (Rynok Sq. 1), Lviv
Parallel to the International Architectural School "Novyi Lviv" Lviv also hosts the "Days of Modernism at City Hall", an educational project of the Center for Urban History.
Today, the architecture of functionalism with its esthetics rejecting décor is little respected and understandable both by common citizens and also by many experts such as historians, architects, and constructors. Therefore buildings constructed during the twenty years between the wars now undergo large scale reconstruction and destruction.
The goal of the lecture is to explain peculiarities of developing the New Lviv district launched in the 1930s in historical, economic, political, and other contexts. What is the place of the New Lviv in Lviv of those times, Lviv in Poland, Poland in Europe? What is the role of an architect and authorities in the processes of city development? Why were buildings with no décor built?
The role of the lecturer is to explain the historical experience of New Lviv, while the role of an opponent is to tell about modern methods of work with functionalism objects in Lviv and opportunities for their preservation.
Yuliya Bohdanova
is a lecturer at the Department of Architectural Environment Design at “Lvivska Politekhnika” National University. She studies the architecture of Lviv of early 20th c. she is co-author of books “Secession in Lviv”, “Architecture of Lviv. Time and Styles of 13-20th c.c.”, “The History of Lviv. Volume 3”.
Yulian Chaplinskyy
is a chief architect of the city of Lviv. In 2006, he cofounded a “Chaplinskyy Trofymenko Architects” company (now – “CHAPLINSKYY & Associates”). He is also on the TOP-100 architects of Ukraine rating by Kyiv architecture magazine “А+С”. Chaplinskyy Bureau was a first prize winner at an All-Ukrainian competition “INTERYEAR 2010”. Winner of the “Golden Lion” award in the competition Man of the Year 2010 in Lviv as an architect of the year.
With support from German Society for International Cooperation GIZ.