[Ukrainian Architectural Style. Visions, Modes, Centuries]

Andrii Puchkov’s monograph is the first architectural study of the “Ukrainian architectural style” phenomenon. According to the author, this style consists of four visual manifestations (modes of style): forms of rural architecture (khata, a wooden church), Ukrainian brick Baroque of the 17th–18th centuries (an Orthodox church), Ukrainian architectural modernism (turn of the 19th–20th centuries), and Ukrainian architectural neo-Baroque (1910s–present).

The author has managed to reveal that the main and most numerous conglomerate of architectural forms—Ukrainian Baroque, predominantly sacred—having undergone European influence and become independent, enriched European culture with new forms and, consequently, artistic techniques.

It has been proven that Ukrainian architectural modernism, using archaic forms of rural architecture, initially actively shaped the urban fabric (Vasyl Krychevsky's Poltava Governorate Zemstvo), later “returned” to the village in the form of zemstvo schools, and grew into the urban fabric with Opanas Slastion's resort buildings in Myrhorod.

It is shown that Ukrainian architectural neo-Baroque, feeding on the brick forms of the 17th–18th centuries and creatively reworking them, preserved the main features of the Baroque style (the development of Khreshchatyk) throughout the “Soviet” 20th century, which, together with other modes and modulations of style, constitutes a model of the uniqueness of specifically Ukrainian architectural forms in the architectural family of Eastern Europe.