Виставка Року 2019

Kharkiv School of Architecture is the first architecture school established in Ukraine since its independence in 1991. It was founded in 2017 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. 

In June 2019 the first cohort of students finished the first year of the BA Program. In order to celebrate this historical event, the School has organized a double exhibition.

The part titled “Open/Work”, curated by the founders of the American architectural bureau Outpost Office, Ashley Bigham and Eric Herrmann, presents the public with the process  of  students’ work throughout the first year of study. The students exhibited all items, which accompanied them on this journey: working models and drawings, sketchbooks and photographs, great outcomes and failed experiments. 

In parallel, the Kharkiv School of Architecture hosts the EU Mies Award 2019, an exhibition that showcases 383 architectural works built all over Europe, which were nominated for the prize in 2019. 

By juxtaposing these two exhibitions, Kharkiv School of Architecture builds a link between two generations of architects: the current and the future ones. The Mies Award exhibition showcases the best work of the current generation of European designers. “Open/Work”, in turn, offers a glimpse into the future of Ukrainian architecture.

“Open/Work” exhibition curatorial statement

“Open/Work” is an exhibition of the work of the first students to complete the first year BA Program at the newly established Kharkiv School of Architecture. It was created by the students, under the tutelage of Outpost Office (based in Columbus, Ohio).

“Open/Work” appropriates design tactics and construction methods from Ukraine’s iconic bazaars to produce a suspended field of objects in the school’s grand hall. Students worked collaboratively to explore organizational methods and detailing more often associated with museum storage than acts of display. 

“Open/Work” includes student work, as well as items borrowed from around the school including lecture posters, books, pencils, pillows, hard hats, woodworking tools and at least one concrete whale. The exhibition is a floating archive that invites visitors to look at objects, touch them, and inspect them more closely.

“Open/Work” is a full disclosure portrait of a messy, young, brilliant, vibrant community of designers ready to build Ukraine’s project of the future. 

Exhibition dates: 14.06.2019 – 1.07.2019 

Location: Kharkiv School of Architecture, Kontorska St, 5, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Curators and tutors: Outpost Office (Ashley Bigham, Erik Herrmann), Boris Filonenko, Alina Yesaian

Co-curators (KhSA students): Alisa Aleksandrova, Maria Kolomiytseva, Natalia Kozub, Dmytro Legeyda, Olha Mozgova, Anna Pelypenko, Kateryna Pelypenko, Anna Prokopchuk, Polina Sanzharevska, Anna Sokolova, Tetyana Telnova

Outpost Office is an architectural practice seeking new public audiences through experimental creative production ranging from the serious to the absurd, often simultaneously.

https://www.outpost-office.com/

EU Mies Award 2019 exhibition in the Kharkiv School of Architecture

The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2019 exhibition for Universities presents the works of the 383 works nominated for the Prize. This layout disseminates the work of European architects around the world and creates important discussions and synergies on ways of designing, building and using places, cities and territories.

Date: 15-6-2019 exhibition opening by Ivan Blasi
 – Coordinator of the EU Mies Award,  

Place: Kharkiv School of Architecture, Ukraine

https://eumiesaward.com/agenda/2019/show/57

Quote of Ivan Blasi, Curator of prizes and programmes at the Mies van der Rohe Foundation

Ukraine is the biggest country participating in the EU Mies Award, with the sixth highest population, which implies that architecture here is essential to embody the country’s values, its civic values which are common with the rest of Europe. The way we build is a reflection of the way we live, and the complexity of Ukraine’s history has allowed the construction of many fascinating layers on which today’s architects continue designing through their own acquired experiences. 

Ukraine joined the EU Mies Award in 2017 as part of the Creative Europe program of the European Commission. In 2017 we only received one nomination of a Ukrainian work but in 2019 there have been 7 which the jury members discussed and reviewed. They highlighted that in many cases, architecture reflects the collective character of a process, the importance given to public space and that different programmes, mostly cultural and educational, have been developed with designs of the highest quality.

This is the first time that the EU Mies Award exhibition is presented in Ukraine and we have great expectations. Not only will it be an opportunity to share what architects are doing in different European regions, which challenges architecture has today, and how European identity is being forged, but it will also be a way to know how architecture education takes place in Kharkov and Ukraine. This will also allow us to strengthen the participation of Ukraine in the Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA) in 2020 which, as part of the EU Mies Award, recognises the quality of final degree designs from all over Europe and which is presented at La Biennale di Venezia.

Kharkiv School of Architecture

The school offers high quality architectural education. Its 3,5-year-long BA Program launched in September 2018. The launch of its 2-year-long MA Program is planned for September 2019. Both programs are created by Ukrainian architects, in close collaboration with international experts.

KhSA Mission Statement

The mission of Kharkiv School of Architecture is to train the new generation of skilled and curious architects, who will propel Ukraine’s built space into the next epoch.

The landscape of modern Ukraine is infinitely diverse. The country spans between a wide range of climatic zones; the architecture of its cities, and their citizens’ ways of life reflect cultures and histories as diverse as in no other European country.

Meanwhile, contemporary disputes about architecture in Ukraine focus on the Soviet legacy, as if it were the only, unavoidable point of reference. This obsession limits and impoverishes the debate, precluding both originality and progress. At KhSA, we will look at Ukraine’s entire built environment with fresh eyes.

In order to break free from the current impasse, we will provide our graduates with both specialized skills and a critical mindset. 

KhSA’s students will revise existing cliches by examining the fundamentals: the climate, materiality, and particular ways of life. They will be able to determine and identify specific local conditions and leverage them for the benefit of both their projects and their context.

They will value simplicity. While demonstrating responsibility for both environmental, and the clients’ resources, they will generate elegance and relevance.

They will continuously test the limits of their profession. Confident in their expertise, they will remain open to dialogue with the clients, experts, and citizens. Responsible and cautious, their approach will nonetheless remain projective, imaginative, and transformative.

Quotes of the creators of the school

Oleg Drozdov, Founder of the Kharkiv School of Architecture, Curator of the Technical Block

The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, but the inertia of its system of education appeared to be great. Until today, young architects in Ukraine are taught to be cogs in the machine of industrial production of space – a machine that no longer exists.

Our ambition is to update the architectural profession and catch up with the changing world. Our programs are practice-oriented: we work with the current problems, existing contexts, real clients. Simultaneously, we want to find new ways of designing: reevaluate our relation with nature, search for new materiality and contextuality, embed the sensibility to social processes into the process of design.

I believe that the architect of the future should have the attentiveness of a researcher, communication skills of a social moderator; besides the design tools, he or she should be equipped with a clear social and political position.

The Maidan revolution of 2014 brought declarations of thorough political and social changes. They can be brought into life only by creation of new institutions. Only new schools will create the critical mass of new professionals, ready to fully comprehend the existing condition and create new meanings.

Students of the first cohort of the BA Program

What comes first: the students or the school?

We are the architects of the first cohort ― pioneers, an experimental group that made the project of the Kharkiv School of Architecture real. KhSA is an institution, which we entered in search of a fresh approach to education. Here, theory is reinforced by trial and error in classes with practicing tutors, who work in different architectural contexts. 

Not everyone will be able to withstand learning. Being an architect is a challenge that requires sacrifice, multitasking, permanent inclusion, and, in general, can be harmful to your health.

In a year we became a dreamteam. We all have different backgrounds, we are from generations X, Y and Z, with a gender ratio of 10: 1. We have extraordinary abilities. However, Dmytro does not agree with the last statement and several other wordings in this text.

– Students (the first cohort of the BA Program): Alisa Aleksandrova, Maria Kolomiytseva, Natalia Kozub, Dmytro Legeyda, Olha Mozgova, Anna Pelypenko, Kateryna Pelypenko, Anna Prokopchuk, Polina Sanzharevska, Anna Sokolova, Tetyana Telnova

The Kharkiv School Team

Founders:
Oleg Drozdov, Vsevolod Kozhemyako, Serhii Probylov, Seyar Kurushtov, Oleh Mikhailenko, Oleksandr Cherepynsky, Taras Sitenko, Kostyantyn Stetsenko, Denis Paramonov

Rector: Svitlana Rybalko

First Vice Rector: Oleksandra Naryzhna

First Vice Rector Assistant: Olha Oryshchenko

Education Programs Coordinator: Yevheniia Dulko

BA Program Director: Kuba Snopek

Humanities Block Curator: Lawrence Barth

Technical Block Curator: Oleg Drozdov

Skills Block Curator: Alexandra Nikitenko

0 Year Curators: Anastasiia Paliy (Kharkiv), Oleksandr Shevchenko (Kyiv)

Public Program Coordinator: Alina Yesaian

Media Manager: Julia Mikhailenko

xLAB: Olena Chernyshova

Projects Assistant: Lina Polyaska

Lawyer: Olena Kupina

Tutors and lecturers

BA Program

Studio: Alina Yesaian, Oleksandra Naryzhna, Alexandra Nikitenko, Kateryna Yolkina (Drozdov & Partners).

Skills: Yaroslav Yakovlev, Alexandra Nikitenko, Andriy Pavlov, Oleksii Lyakh.

Technical: Oleh Drozdov (Drozdov & Partners), Alexandra Nikitenko, Andrey Bidakov. 

Humanities: Dmytro Zayets, Svitlana Shlipchenko, Borys Filonenko. 

Invited tutors: Laurian Ghinitoiu, Simone de Iacobis & Małgorzata Kuciewicz (Centrala), Lonny van Ryswyck & Dries van Wagenberg (Atelier NL), Roman Sakh, Kostiantyn Kuchabskyi, Sergiy Ilchenko, Erik Herrmann & Ashley Bigham (Outpost Office), Maria Tselik, Markus Lähteenmäki, Michał Murawski, Vitaliy Pravyk (Drozdov & Partners), Ignas Uogintas (DO Architects), Eugen Friedlieb, Kateryna Shumihina, Anastasiia Paliy.

0 Year

Oleksandr Abrosimov, Igor Chekachkov, Mykita Khudyakov, Oleksandra Krivtsova, Oleksii Leskov, Oleksii Lyakh, Oleksand Manukyans, Maria Norazyan, Iliya Pavlov, Dasha Pirogova, Yuriy Poluyanov, Roman Sakh, Oleksandr Shevchenko, Oleksandr Sindnev, Anastasiia Strizhevska, Maria Tselik, Alexandra Nikitenko, Yaroslav Yakovlev, Dmytro Zayets, Borys Filonenko, Yevheniia Dulko, Oleksandra Naryzhna, Anastasiia Paliy, Oleksandr Abrosimov, Alevtina Kakhidze, Dasha Pirogova, Zhenya Gaydamaka, Snezhana Chernetskaya, Kostiantyn Kuchabskyi, Oleksiy Panchenko, Vlada Dumenko.

Network of Experts

Evgeny Asse, ,  Ganna Bondar, Christianna Bonin, Catriona CheyneAnderson Inge, Vera Leonova, Stijnie Lohof, Tommy Makyanen, Evgen Medresh, Robert Mull, Nadya Nilina, Evgeniy Shirinyan, Petro Tarchinskiy, Mario van Schaik, Evert Verhagen, Bohdan Volynskyi.