In the history of building, Tamara Tselikovska is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Tamara Tselikovska as Soviet architect (1935-2019).
Tamara Tselikovska was born at Yelets in 1935. Her recorded nationality is Soviet Union. She trained at Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture.
Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.
She is recorded as architect.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
Recognition followed: Merited Architect of Ukraine.
That the work was built in Soviet Union shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Tamara Tselikovska died in 2019, aged 84. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Merited Architect of Ukraine
- Trained at Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture
