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The interior of the Armenian Cathedral of Lviv, which is largely the work of Jan Henryk De Rosen and Józef Mehoffer. Armenian architecture, as it originates in an earthquake-prone region, tends to be built with this hazard in mind. Armenian buildings tend to be rather low-slung and thick-walled in design.
From the 17th century until 1945, the cathedral belonged to the Armenian Catholic archdiocese of Lviv, when bishop Mikołaj (Nicolas) Torosowicz in 1630 and his successor Vartan Hunanyan (1681) united the Armenian and Roman Catholic Churches, over a century before the official birth (1742) of the Armenian Catholic Church. The cathedral ...
Julian Oktawian Zachariewicz-Lwigród (17 July 1837 – 27 December 1898), commonly referred to as Julian Zachariewicz, was a Polish architect and renovator of Armenian descent. [2] [3] Zachariewicz was a graduate of the Royal Polytechnic Institute in Vienna, [4] and a professor and rector (1881–1882) of the Lemberg Polytechnic. [5]
The Vernacular architecture of Armenia is based on long standing Armenian architectural tradition starting from the times of Urartu to the modern day. Vernacular architecture refers to the common architecture of the region, which is usually much simpler than what the technology of current time is able to provide.
In 1732 the building was transferred to Lviv district director Franciszek Wieszniewski, and then in 1760 to the Armenian Nikorovych family. The assessor of the Tribunal, Dominik Nikorovich, received his nobility from the Austrian emperor in 1782. The building was owned by his descendants until 1911.
The Boim Chapel (Ukrainian: Капли́ця Боїмів, Polish: Kaplica Boimów) is a monument of religious architecture in Cathedral Square, Lviv, Ukraine. It was constructed from 1609 to 1615 and is part of Lviv's Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Lviv's Old Town (Ukrainian: Старе Місто Львова, romanized: Stare Misto L’vova; Polish: Stare Miasto we Lwowie) is the historic centre of the city of Lviv, within the Lviv Oblast in Ukraine, recognized as a State Historic-Architectural Sanctuary in 1975.
A technical school opened within the newly established Yerevan State University in 1921, graduating its first students in 1928. In July 1930, the Armenian Construction Institute, which by this stage had departments of Architecture and Construction, Hydrology and Chemical Engineering, was established with prominent architect Mikayel Mazmanyan as its first director.