Radoslav Zuk lectures at Cambridge University

CAMBRIDGE, England - Radoslav Zuk, professor of architecture at McGill University, Montreal, and an honorary professor of the Kyiv Technical University of Building and Architecture, appeared as guest lecturer at Cambridge University, where an exhibition of his work was held concurrently at Clare Hall.

The exhibit "Radoslav Zuk - Reinterpreting Tradition: An Exhibition of Ukrainian Churches in North America and Museum Projects in Ukraine," opened April 26 at the Clare Hall Art Gallery, where it was on view through May 11.

On May 1, Prof. Zuk delivered a lecture titled "Cultural Identity in Contemporary Architecture: A Challenge in the Age of Globalization," in which he discussed cultural transformations of prevailing historical styles in European architecture, including Ukrainian developments, e.g., Byzantine, Renaissance and Baroque and then demonstrated, by referring to his own work, how similar transformations can occur in our times.

On May 9, The Martin Center for Architectural and Urban Studies at Cambridge University, presented Prof. Zuk in a lecture titled "Architecture and Non-Harmonic Structures in Music."

In music, such elements as melody, harmony, rhythm, texture and timbre are recognized as distinct structural components which make up the totality of a musical work. While studies in music/architecture analogies have emphasized the relationship between harmony and proportion, in his lecture Prof. Zuk demonstrated by analytical examples that other structures which pertain to functional, perceptual and tectonic aspects of architecture, respectively, can also determine decisively the nature and quality of the built environment.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, June 3, 2001, No. 22, Vol. LXIX

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