In the history of building, Vasyl Nahirnyi is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Vasyl Nahirnyi as Ukrainian architect, public figure, founder of the Ukrainian cooperative movement (1848–1921).
Vasyl Nahirnyi was born at Hirne in 1848. He trained at ETH Zurich.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
Vasyl Nahirnyi died in 1921, aged 73. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at ETH Zurich
