“Architecture is also a chronicle of the world: it speaks when both songs and legends are silent” Mykola Gogol
If there are dreams, they must come true. And to make dreams come true means to take action.
The future needs memories, while memories need places where we could come back over and over again to make sure our history lives on.
Architectural monuments shape our everyday life as no other art form. Humble as they seem, cultural monuments largely inform public spaces. Meanwhile, in Ukraine more often than not they are threatened and left to decay for different reasons. But what would our cities and villages look like, stripped of historical buildings?
In 2020 this question led us to setting up the Architectural Heritage Foundation, a purely private organisation that seeks to protect historical buildings and monuments in Ukraine, to raise awareness of architectural monuments available in this country and to revive the old traditions of craftsmanship.
The Architectural Heritage Foundation is a non-profit organization. It is a creative team working on saving endangered architectural monuments. Employees of the charitable foundation work as volunteers and all donations will exclusively be spent for saving endangered architectural monuments.