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Brief Historical Background of the Department
of Architecture
For a long period of time there were no architectural
departments in European Universities, and the Architecture was
only a trade. Gradual transition to University education in the
Held of Architecture started at the end of the 17th century, first
in Italy and France, and later in other countries. Since 1730,
University education for architects was instituted in Lviv, namely
at the Lviv University. After the first modern higher technical
educational establishment was opened in Paris in 1794 in line
with the new trends, a number of other similar higher educational
establishments were founded. In 1844 the modern Technical Academy
was created in Lviv. The Academy was rated the eighth in Europe
based on the level of education provided. At that time, the Department
of Architecture was transferred from the Lviv University to this
modern technical higher educational establishment. Since then
and until now, Lviv School of Architecture has been a part of
Lviv Polytechnic, and has a status of the Department. It is necessary
to note that the Department of Architecture with Lviv Polytechnic
is the oldest school of architecture in Ukraine, which functioned
regularly; and is also one of the oldest continuously practicing
architectural higher educational establishments, equal in status
to the universities, in the Central Europe.
At first, the campus of the Department of Architecture
was located in the old part of the City, on Teatralna Street,
close to the "RYNOK" market place. Since 1877 the Department
of Architecture moved to a new campus of the Lviv Polytechnic
built in 1872-77 (at: 12 S. Bandera Street). The campus, which
became a well-known masterpiece of architecture, was designed
by Yudian Zakharicvich, Ph.D. in Architecture, an outstanding
architect and lecturer, who held the position of the Rector of
Lviv Polytechnic for a long time.
In the next decade, due to the combined efforts
and creativity of a great number of people, major trends were
developed and significant results achieved by the Department of
Architecture with Lviv Polytechnic. The following people played
considerable part in the development of Lviv Polytechnic: Professor
Edgar Kovach, Professor Gustav Bizants and his successor Tadey
Obminskiy, Professor Yan Sas-Zubrytskiy and his successor Marian
Osinskiy, Professor Adam Minkevich, and others. The well-known
Ukrainian Architect, Ivan Levynskiy contributed a lot by his creative
activities and initiative. Each of them left a great number of
architectural works of art and scientific research works.
The significant role in the history of Lviv
School of Architecture was played by a outstanding personality
and highly valued creative activities of the Architect Ivan Bagenskiy,
Ph.D. (1883-1967). For more than twenty years in the post-war
period, until December 1966, he was the head of the Major Chair
of Architecture with Lviv Polytechnic, when he shared vast accumulated
experience of the Lviv School of Architecture with the students.
In October 1971, the Department of Architecture
was reopened as an independent department of the Lviv Polytechnic,
after temporary unification with the Department of Construction
Engineering in the post-war period. After the Department of Architecture
was reopened in the period from 1977 to 1991, it was headed by
the Professor Anclriy Rudnytskiy, and since 1991 - by Bogdan Cherkes.
These days the Department of Architecture with
Lviv Polytechnic maintains the best conventional trends, establishes
and develops All-Ukrainian and international relations in the
field of scientific and creative work, and provides training for
architects.
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National
University "Lvivska Polytechnica"
