Borys A. Radoslav Zuk influence on the development of religious architecture in Western Ukraine during the late XX - early XXI centuries.

In this work is considered the phenomenon of creativity Ukrainian-Canadian architect Radoslav Zuk and its impact on the design of sacred buildings in western Ukraine verge of XX - XXI centuries. For the first time comprehensively analyzed the ideological basis of morphological system proposed by R. Zuk, which has two principal components, the combination of which creates a unique cultural and artistic result. The first is to develop their own methods of artistic interpretation of modernists style that is based on use systematics of musical rhythms into architectural shaping. The second - to complete the process of searching the synthesis of Ukrainian national identity in sacred architecture, combining notable features of different regions and key eras, based on modernist stylistic language. Aiming to this, is leaded a brief overview of the history search of nationally determined image of religious buildings among figures of Ukrainian national and cultural revival of the late nineteenth century. It is conducted the analysis developed by Radoslaw Zuk theory of "rhythmic features of Ukrainian church architecture" and realized projects of churches in North America and Ukraine, is traced an evolution of author's views on the best three-dimensional solution structure due to its ceremonial and functional specificity.7452