In November 2023, I visited Lviv, Ukraine, to meet the students at the Kharkiv School of Architecture who I had been teaching all semester remotely as a visiting tutor. In March 2022, just three weeks after the full-scale Russian war of aggression began, the administration evacuated the Kharkiv School to Lviv, Ukraine, and that is where they remain.
In addition to daily meetings with the students, I gave two pubic lectures: one at the Center for Urban History, the second at the Kharkiv School of Architecture’s public lecture series. To donate to the school and support its mission to train young Ukrainians for the postwar reconstruction of the country to come, click here.
Recordings of my lectures in Lviv can be found on YouTube:
“Soviet Ukrainian Urbanism: Return to Utility,” Kharkiv School of Architecture, Lviv, Ukraine, November 10, 2023. YouTube link.
2023“Soviet Ukraine and the Transnational Architecture of Standardization,” Lviv Center for Urban History, Lviv, Ukraine, November 9, 2023. YouTube Link (English) | YouTube link (Ukrainian)
