Lviv Polytechnic National University

Since its establishment on November 28, 2003 the Department of Architectural Environment Design, the Institute of Architecture and Design, Lviv Polytechnic, formed a wide range of educational and applied areas: architecture and urban planning, landscape, lighting, monumental, cultural and urban design. What does the Department of Architectural Environment Design do? The Head of the Department, Doctor of Architecture, Professor Viktor Proskuriakov told us about the general activities of academic staff and students and about their professional achievements. «From the very beginning of the Department, in addition to all possible traditional forms of educational and applied semester training, we involve our students in exploratory research, experimental and competitive design for today&s;s needs in Lviv, Uzhgorod, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Kropyvnytskyi, Kyiv and other cities where graduates of the Institute of Architecture and our Department work. They do not forget their alma mater and organize for our students design competitions in the cities where they work» said Professor Viktor Proskuriakov. Also, according to Professor Viktor Proskuriakov, the Department of Architectural Environment Design has a number of international partners with whom scientific and applied workshops and seminars are organized. «These are foreign architecture schools in Kielce, Poland; Dresden, Berlin, Kaiserslautern, Germany; Palermo, Italy; and Toronto, Canada. For example, in Dresden, together with our partners, we held a scientific and practical seminar on the topic: «City and river» where we studied the architectural silhouettes of the Elbe banks. In Berlin, we took part in projects for the reconstruction of Alexanderplatz and the TV tower, as well as the territory of Tegel Airport. Together with students from Ryerson University in Toronto, we considered the possibilities of wider operation of the assembly hall in the first academic building of Lviv Polytechnic National University» says Viktor Proskuriakov. The range of ...