Olha Zarechnyuk

architectural historian, researcher, architectural editor of the Lviv Interactive platform (2018-present)

Doctoral student in art history at Ca'Foscari University in Venice (2025-present), part of the ERC AdriArchCult project. She studied at the Department of Restoration and Reconstruction of Architectural Complexes at Lviv Polytechnic National University. She received her specialist diploma in Architecture of Buildings and Structures in 2013. 

At the Center for Urban History, since 2018, she has been an architectural editor of the Lviv Interactive platform and the author of architectural descriptions of buildings, conducts city walks on architectural topics; in 2014-2017, she was a content manager and project assistant, coordinator of the topics "Rynok Square in Lviv," "Secessionist Ensemble of Bohomoltsia Street," and others. She has been researching architects as professionals. The project "The Beginnings of Heritage in Habsburg Lviv: Ideas, People, Institutions" grew into a dissertation research, which examines heritage protection in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the broader perspective of building monument protection infrastructure in marginal areas — on the example of Galicia and the eastern Adriatic coast. 

Research interests: architecture and urban planning of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, architectural heritage, history of architectural conservation and restoration

 

  • Olha Zarechnyuk, “Monument Preservation and Ruin Romanticism in Late Habsburg Lviv: The Case of the Gunpowder Tower”, in Cosmin Minea and Kristina Jõekalda, eds., Inherited Empire: Appropriating Ottoman, Habsburg and Russian/Soviet Past through Architectural Conservation. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press [forthcoming] (Series: Memory, Heritage and Public History in Central and Eastern Europe – CEU Press) 
  • Mieczysław Potocki and the Beginnings of the Monument Preservation Milieu in Lviv in the 1860s and 1870s / Lviv Interactive 
  • The Ossolineum and the First Exhibition of Antiquities in Lviv (1861) / Lviv Interactive 
  • Олег Рибчинський, Ольга Заречнюк, “Формування композиційно-планувальної структури ринкової площі Поморян”, Сучасні проблеми дослідження, консервації та реставрації історичних фортифікацій, (Холм-Львів, 2016), с. 192-206