Academic Department

MA in Architecture and Urban Planning, Kharkiv National University of Construction and Architecture.

Practising architect, competitions and workshops participant. In 2016, participated in the International Coastal Urban Forum workshop, Odesa Region, focused on conceptual design of the Odesan coast. Trainer for the Ecologists team in the Urbanism school module workshop supported by the Urban Forms Centre and the CEDOS analytical centre. In 2018, participated in designing the competition brief for Sykhiv public space design, Lviv.  In 2019−2021, as an SBM Studio member coordinated and participated in the Sarzhyn Yar project, Kharkiv, and participated in embankment project design, Berdyansk.

In 2021, joined KhSA as Technical Bloc assistant and coordinator. Together with Heads of the Years and tutors, participates in curricula content design.

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Culturologist, graduate of the National Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, licensed in Art Criticism. Completed a course in Art Management, Kyiv Academy of Media Arts, worked in management of cultural institutions.

Researcher of gender issues and feminism in Ukraine.

In September 2020, joined the KhSA as the academic process organizer and student coordinator.

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MA in Industrial and Civil Construction, Kharkiv National University of Construction and Architecture.
As a post-graduate student of the Kharkiv National University of Construction and Architecture, won an Erasmus Mundus (INFINITY) grant and did her PhD thesis in the Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia. 2018, Candidate of Technical Sciences in the Technology and Organization of Industrial and Civil Engineering, 05.23.08, specialization 192 Construction and Civil Engineering.
Started working when a student: in 2013–2015, worked in the State Project Design and Research Institute Ukrainian Energy Network Project.
2015–2016, junior research fellow, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia; construction engineer, GBD Projekteerimine OÜ.
Since 2017, lecturer of the Department of Technology, Construction Organization and Site Engineering, Head of Post-Graduate Department, Kharkiv National University of Construction and Architecture.
Participant of national and international research conferences and workshops, publishes research articles in professional journals in Ukraine and abroad.
Since 2020, expert of the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance.
In 2021, joined the KhSA team, organizes the academic process, coordinates licensing and curricula accreditation, controls curricula design and approval, ensures that the KhSA meets the effective legislative requirements in education.

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Degree in Architecture and Urban Planning, Kharkiv National University of Construction and Architecture; worked in the Portal-21 architectural office with projects of historic buildings reconstruction, public and private interiors.

In 2016, as a participant of the Urban Forms Centre civil organization, coordinated the conference on Gender Issues in Art, Architecture and Urban Planning. Co-author and coordinator of the Modernism Women awareness-rising project focusing on the contribution of women to science, culture and art. Curator of the School Module. Urbanism children’s educational project aimed at increasing young people’s participation in urban decision-taking.

Participant of architectural workshops and summer schools, including the Idea of a City. Reality Check interdisciplinary summer school, Slavutych, History and Memory studio, with results published in the Journal of East Central European Studies. During the New Lviv summer school, as a project team member, designed the revitalization concept for the Polyaron plant and the development concept for the whole New Lviv district.

2020–2021, lecturer in the Studio, Architecture and Construction Site courses, DASH children’s architectural school.
Co-founder and architect of the NOEMA studio, which focuses on architectural projects in the residential and the public sectors, competitions, and public interiors.

In 2020, joined the KhSA teams as a Tutor for the Foundation Year and the 1st Year Studio. Since 2021, Head of the 1st Year, designs 1st-year curriculum and its content together with tutors, visiting lecturers and coordinators.

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Like many Kharkiv architects, Oleksandr Kolesnykov is a graduate of the Kharkiv National University of Construction and Architecture. His professional work covers three main areas. The first includes project design and construction and focuses on urbanism, architecture, interiors, object design, graphics and texts. In late 1980s, Kolesnykov worked in the State Institute for University Building Design, participated in the design of universities in Rivne, Simpheropol, and Zaporizhzhya and the Sumy Agrarian Institute, the Krasnodar Higher Military Institute, the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute and other institutes. In August 2002, Kolesnykov became a founder and Chief Architect of JSC Nice-Project. This architectural office designed projects for the East-West residential development, Sumsky Market, town-houses and office centres, Kharkiv.

Another area of Kolesnykov’s professional interests includes international competitions. At first, Kolesnykov took part in competitions individually or together with his friends; lately he has also started to invite his students. Regular participation in competition design enables an architect to work with various landscapes, climates, cultures and relevant and well-prepared briefs and ToRs. Victories add to the portfolio and contextualize architectural work in the international trends. About 30 projects by Kolesnykov have won prizes (from Grand Prix to Honourable Mention) from the international associations Habitat and Oistat, and also are recognized in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Yugoslavia, USSR, Ukraine and Japan. During the last three years, his victories include the Theatre Space, Taiwan (Oistat competition), a conference hall,  Pisa, Italy (just 18 m from the Tower of Pisa), and a school restoration project for the 24 Hours international competition. During the same period, Kolesnykov completed several more competition projects, which remain equally interesting, even if not included in the number of prize-winners.

Kolesnykov’s third area of interest includes academic work. For five years, while continuing his project work, Kolesnykov has worked as a lecturer in the Kharkiv Technical University of Construction and Architecture and for another year – in the KhSA. Kolesnykov believes that independent Ukrainian architecture can be created only through comprehending and processing international experience. Cultures, methods, landscapes, materials, project topics, goal setting and implementation, attitude towards the void, responsibility, patterns, and adjacent arts: all this range should be available for Ukrainian students. This will provide them with material to create Ukrainian architecture.

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In 1986, graduated from the Kharkiv Institute of Civil Engineering and Construction; started professional work at the Kharkiv Institute of Civil Engineering (now Kharkiv National University of Construction and Architecture) and then in the Ukrainian Institute of Urban Construction and Project Design.

1996-2003, co-founder and chief editor of the Vaterpas, one of the first magazines on architecture and construction.  Since 2003, Chief Editor of the ACC magazine.

2008–2012, Director for Architecture and Urban Planning, JSC Habitat Vivendi.

2012–2018, reader, Department of Architecture, Kharkiv National University of Construction and Architecture.

Since the Soviet period, participant and organizer of numerous design seminars and architectural workshops.

Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine for Architecture, 2006.

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Drozdov is an architect, urbanist, artist, academic, and EU Mies van der Rohe Award expert. Since 1997, he is the founder and Chief Architect of Drozdov&Partners architectural office. In 2017, Drozdov became a co-founder of the Kharkiv School of Architecture and its Technical Bloc curator and lecturer. Since 2020, he is a co-founder and the Chief Architect of the Paragraph studio of architecture and urbanism in Montreux, Switzerland.

In 2015, Drozdov curated the Terralogia art project in Shcherbenko Art Centre, Kyiv, and YermilovCentre for contemporary art, Kharkiv, Ukraine. In 2012, he curated the Circumstances project representing Ukraine at the Moscow Architecture Biennale, winning the First Prize in the “Best Curated Project” nomination. In 2011, Drozdov was the co-author and critic of the Columbia University GSAPP semester project. In 2005, he represented Ukraine at the Flood International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) with the “Monisto” project. In 2003, Drozdov initiated the Architectural Ambulance international project design workshop, Kharkiv, a ground-breaking event for Ukraine.

The most widely discussed project by Drozdov is the Podil Theatre reconstruction in Kyiv, Ukraine: it showcased issues crucial for Ukrainian society and expanded the limits of traditional architectural aesthetics. This project received a number of awards and, in 2019, was nominated for a prestigious EU prize for architecture, EU Mies van der Rohe Award. In 2021, two new objects by Drozdov&Partners were nominated for EU Mies van der Rohe Award: the VG Horse Club and the Sense Dental Clinic.

Drozdov is positive that architects must develop their sense of place, culture, climate, and time. To this end, his whole team is engaged in international projects in France, Korea, Kuwait, Spain, Switzerland, the USA, and other countries, which expand their world view and provide a better understanding of themselves and their own culture. The key project method practised by the team is discussion and peer revision. Another crucial factor for the team’s development is a regular exchange of functions between the architects: their work ranges from urban design and large-scale area research to interior design and even scenography. This practice provides the team with a broad scope of competences and experience, which can be applied to expand their understanding of the situation, visibly improve the quality of their solutions and make them more insightful.

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