Yevhen Nahirnyi

Yevhen Nahirnyi
Євген Нагірний
Born	Yevhen Vasyliovych Nahirnyi (1885-08-13)13 August 1885 Rudne, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine)
Died	8 June 1951(1951-06-08) (aged 65) Lviv
Nationality	Ukrainian
Alma mater	Lviv Polytechnic School
Occupation	Architect

Yevhen Nahirnyi (Ukrainian: Євген Васильович Нагірний; 13 August 1885 – 8 June 1951) was a Ukrainian architect.

Biography

Yevhen Nahirnyi was born on 13 August 1885 in Rudne, now the Lviv urban hromada of the Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.[1]

In 1912 he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Lviv Polytechnic School. From 1946 he taught at higher education institutions in Lviv; head of the Department of Architecture at the Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts.[1]

Yevhen Nahirny died on 8 July 1951 in Lviv. He is buried at the Lychakiv Cemetery on field No. 5.[2]

Works

In 1905–1921 he worked with his father Vasyl Nahirnyi in Lviv. Nahirnyi is the author of more than 500 residential, public, and church buildings in Western Ukraine.[1][2]

For the construction of houses in Lviv, Nahirnyi used the styles of neoclassicism and functionalism; for sacred buildings, he used Ukrainian Baroque and folk architecture. When designing wooden churches, he mainly developed the traditions of the Boyko school. Also, neo-historicism and modernism can be observed in Nahirny's works.[1][2]

References

1. Нагірний Євген Васильович / Ю. О. Бірюльов // Енциклопедія Сучасної України [Електронний ресурс] / Редкол. : І. М. Дзюба, А. І. Жуковський, М. Г. Железняк [та ін.] ; НАН України, НТШ. – К. : Інститут енциклопедичних досліджень НАН України, 2020.
2. "Євген Нагірний: той, хто споруджував галицькі храми". RISU. 2021-10-18.

Sources

• Черкес Б., Грицюк Л. Архітектор Євген Нагірний // Dzvin. 1991. No. 4.
• Космолінська Н. Нагірні, Леви: історія одного врятованого архіву // Поступ. 29.09.2000.