Mass Housing in Ukraine

Building Typologies and Catalogue of Series 19222022

Kateryna Malaia, Philipp Meuser

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DOM Publishers
01 December 2024

Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus; Residential buildings, domestic buildings; History of architecture

Housing is the most omnipresent urban typology. Housing is also the essential architecture of the human condition. Perhaps more than any other architectural species, housing determines the ways urbanites construct their lives and build their shared futures.

The all-out war in Ukraine, started by the Russian Federation in 2022 has disproportionally affected housing and residential infrastructure. The destruction is so targeted, and the damage so significant that it has disfigured entire neighborhoods and erased entire cities. With the scale of damage and loss in mind, and the future wide-ranging reconstruction that will inevitably take place after the war, this study examines the history and typologies of mass housing in Ukraine. It does so in order to evaluate what is lost, explain the diversity of modes of urban living that exist in Ukrainian cities, and finally, reconsider the narrative of how Ukrainian housing came about.

The study covers the period of the last 100 years: the time of the most dramatic expansion and change in character of Ukrainian cities. It begins with the experimental buildings constructed in the Soviet Central and Eastern Ukraine and Polish Western Ukraine in the 1920s and 1930s, continues by looking at type projects from the Stalin era, as well as the serial apartment blocks built during the reigns of Khrushchev and Brezhnev and in the late USSR. Finally, it showcases individually designed, yet also typical residential buildings from the turbo-capitalist period of the 1990s and 2000s.

With the help of archival materials-texts, blueprints, and photographs-as well as contemporary documentation, the authors analyze 30 examples of Ukrainian-designed or modified housing types. Through uncovering the Ukrainian context, as well as the work of Ukrainian architects, design institutions, contractors, and developers, the history of Ukrainian housing is emancipated from the Russian narrative of the Soviet past. By doing so, we aim to write the history of a specifically Ukrainian building tradition and contribute to embedding it in the context of all-European architectural history.

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By: Kateryna Malaia, Philipp Meuser
Imprint: DOM Publishers
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 210mm, Spine: 33mm
ISBN: 9783869228310
ISBN 10: 3869228318
Pages: 408
Publication Date: 01 December 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Kateryna Malaia, an architectural historian and educator, born in 1988. She studied architecture in Kyiv, Ukraine and holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Mississippi State University, USA. Philipp Meuser, German architect and publisher, born in 1969. Studied architecture in -Berlin and Zurich, with a focus on archi-tec-tural history and theory. Holds a PhD in engineering from the Berlin Technical Uni-ver-sity. Honorary professorship at Beketov University in Kharkiv/Ukraine.