Radoslav Zuk featured in journal Church Building (01/16/05)

Radoslav Zuk featured in journal Church Building

MONTREAL - Radoslav Zuk, an emeritus professor of architecture at McGill University and recipient of the Ida and Samuel Fromson Award for Outstanding Teaching at the university's faculty of engineering, is a frequent guest lecturer at various universities and institutions abroad and participant in international interdisciplinary conferences.

As guest lecturer this spring in Turkey and Ukraine, Prof. Zuk spoke on the architecture of 20th century museums, in presentations that included an analysis of critical issues in the design of new museums in America and Western Europe, with lectures delivered at the Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul, the Technical University of Lviv and at the Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv.

In the context of the interrelationships between architecture, mathematics, and music, Prof. Zuk, who has a background in music studies, gave several presentations on the topic, among them a lecture on "The Mathematics of Music and Architecture" at the Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul in the department of mathematics and a lecture titled "The Third Dimension in Palladio's Quattro Libri and the Beginnings of Tonal Music," which was presented at the Technical University in Vienna on April 29.

At the interdisciplinary conference Nexus 2004, held in Mexico City at the Tecnológico de Monterrey (June 23), Prof. Zuk presented a paper in which he examined the structure of musical chords as a means of shedding light on systems of architectural proportions from the Renaissance to the 20th century in a presentation titled "From Renaissance Musical Proportions to Polytonality in 20th Century Architecture." The article has since appeared in print in "Nexus V: Architecture and Mathematics," with Kim Williams and Francisco J. Delgado Cepeda, editors, as a publication of Kim Williams Books, Fucecchio (Florence), Italy.

Prof. Zuk's presentation at the 16th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics, Sixth Annual Symposium on Systems Research in the Arts, held in Baden-Baden, Germany (August 2), was titled "Beyond Proportion: Non-harmonic Structures in Music and Architecture."

Addressing a topic that is of abiding interest, Prof. Zuk spoke on "Problems of Contemporary Development of Ukrainian Culture in the Diaspora," in a presentation at the 23rd annual Conference on Ukrainian Subjects held June 16-19 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

A feature on the internationally recognized architect, titled "Focus on Radoslav Zuk: a devotee of Ukrainian architecture in North America," appeared in the British journal Church Building (March/April issue).

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