
Coping with Destruction
Approaches to Rebuilding in Ukraine
Anastasiia Bozhenko(Editor)
DOM publishers
Will be published approx. on 1. November 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-3-86922-783-2 (ISBN)
Description
Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion, Ukraine's cities have suffered untold damage. Rebuilding is a matter of both immediate measures and long-term strategies. The urgent needs are to make buildings liveable again, restore infrastructure, and house displaced persons, but the longer-term aim is to make cities suitable for life in the twenty-first century. Based on a workshop held at Leipzig City Hall in April 2025, this book looks, among other things, at:
How damaged buildings can be restored even as hostilities continue, and the importance of such rehabilitation as a social and political issue;
How dependence on large-scale technical infrastructure can be reduced by new forms of settlement and energy;
Treatment of Ukraine's architectural monuments, and the possibility of giving protective status to late-Soviet residential districts as 'everyday heritage'.
The question of Ukraine's survival and renewal cannot be ignored: it is inseparable from the question of Europe's own resilience in a world that is becoming increasingly high-risk.
This architectural guide is part of the Histories of Ukrainian Architecture programme initiated by Berlin-based DOM publishers in response to Russia's attack on Ukraine's sovereignty on 24 February 2022.
How damaged buildings can be restored even as hostilities continue, and the importance of such rehabilitation as a social and political issue;
How dependence on large-scale technical infrastructure can be reduced by new forms of settlement and energy;
Treatment of Ukraine's architectural monuments, and the possibility of giving protective status to late-Soviet residential districts as 'everyday heritage'.
The question of Ukraine's survival and renewal cannot be ignored: it is inseparable from the question of Europe's own resilience in a world that is becoming increasingly high-risk.
This architectural guide is part of the Histories of Ukrainian Architecture programme initiated by Berlin-based DOM publishers in response to Russia's attack on Ukraine's sovereignty on 24 February 2022.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 210 mm
ISBN-13
978-3-86922-783-2 (9783869227832)
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Anastasiia Bozhenko studied history at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, where she defended her PhD thesis in 2019. Since 2019 Anastasiia has worked as a senior teacher at the Department of Ukrainian Studies at the same university. In addition, she is a member of the NGOs Urban Forms Centre and Art Oborona, which work with the Modernist architectural heritage. She held a short-term research fellowship at the Centre for Urban History of Central and Eastern Europe (Lviv, Ukraine, February 2019) and a research fellowship at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw (2022 in 2019- 2024). Her research explores the intersection of heritage studies, memory studies, urban history, and post-colonial studies. Since 2025 Anastasiia has been a researcher at Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) as part of the collaborative project 'Cities. Building. Culture'.