Radoslav Zuk participates in architecture symposium
NEW YORK - Radoslav Zuk, professor of architecture at McGill University in Montreal, recently was invited to take part in a symposium of the Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture held in New York on February 3.
Participating in the symposium were leading architects and design consultants engaged in church architecture representing different faiths.
Among the participants were New York architect Bertram L. Bassuk, known for his synagogue designs and his approach to architectural education; Eliza M. Linley, architect and Episcopalian minister, who does consulting work for congregations facing new building programs or renovations and resortations; Robert E. Rambusch, leading liturgical design consultant/artist based in New York; and Prof. Zuk, known for his major design projects of Ukrainian Catholic churches in the U.S. and Canada.
Founded in 1961, ARC provides a forum for collaboration on the highest level between artists and intellectuals and religious bodies. It invites the participation "of all those who seek to shape the future," bringing together "those numerous but scattered individuals of all traditions and disciplines who are at work on the frontiers of creative thought and expression."
During his sabbatical from McGill University for the academic year 1995-1996, Prof. Zuk was visiting professor at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich during the summer semester of 1995.
Last fall he was in Kyiv in his capacity as consultant for the project for the expansion of the National Museum of Ukrainian Art.
Prof. Zuk was also visiting professor at the Istanbul Technical University and appeared as guest lecturer at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey.
The photographic exhibition "Radoslav Zuk: Tradition and New Architecture - Nine Churches for Ukrainian Catholic Communities in North America," which has already appeared in Ukraine, Austria and Italy, was also held at both universities in Turkey last November.
On May 9, Prof. Zuk gave a lecture titled "The Conscious and the Subconscious in the Architectural Design Process: Ukrainian Churches in North America and Museum Projects in Ukraine," which was delivered at the Institute for Architecture at the Technical University of Vienna.
Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, June 23, 1996, No. 25, Vol. LXIV
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