Mykola Yakovliev

Academician of the NAA of Ukraine

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Mykola Yakovliev

    born in 1948

Architect, Educator

    Academician of the NAA of Ukraine (2004)

    Honoured Worker of Education of Ukraine (2004) 

    PhD in Technical Sciences (1999)

    Professor (2001)

Mykola Yakovliev was awarded the Order of Merit, 1st Class (2020), the Order of Merit of the 2nd (2012) and 3rd (2008) Classes, a Diploma of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (2008), a Diploma of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (2008), a Gold Medal of the AUC (2008), a Gold Medal of the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (2008), an award of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine "For Longstanding Productive Work in the Field of Culture" (2008), the Order of St. George the Victorious (2008), the Order of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (2011), the Certificate of Honour of the Mayor of Kyiv (2008), the Certificate of Honour of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine and the Central Committee of the Trade Union of Cultural Workers (2008).

He works in the field of artistic form theory. He holds a PhD in Technical Aesthetics. The subject of his scientific activity is the study of the composition patterns in fine and decorative arts, design and architecture. Yakovliev has more than 100 publications, more than 60 of which are related to the problems of synthesis of arts, published in many national and foreign editions. In 2000, he published the monograph "Principles of Artistic Formation", which presents the methodology of compositional analysis of works of architecture, fine and decorative arts based on extensive research materials, in 2004 he published the textbook "Fundamentals of Composition" for students of art schools, in 2007 - the monograph "Composition + Geometry", in 2012 - the collection "Essays on the History of Ukrainian Design of the 20th Century" (general edition).

Yakovliev is the editor-in-chief of the scientific and methodological cross-university collection "Technical Aesthetics and Design", a member of specialised councils for the defence of PhD Candidate and PhD theses in the specialities "Theory of Fine Arts", "Theory, History and Restoration of Architecture", "Technical Aesthetics".

He successfully combines scientific work with pedagogical work, and for over 30 years he has been educating specialists, relying on his own creative and scientific experience and theoretical methods of teaching the laws of composition in fine, decorative and applied arts and design in higher education.

Scientific Activity

The focus of Yakovliev's scientific activity is the research of the composition patterns in fine and decorative arts, design and architecture.

He is the author of more than 100 scientific publications on the challenges of applied geometry, graphics, design, monographs "Principles of Artistic Formation" (2000) and "Composition + Geometry" (2007), and the textbook "Fundamentals of Composition".

He holds the position of the editor-in-chief of the scientific and methodological cross-university collection "Technical Aesthetics and Design", a member of specialised councils for the defence of PhD Candidate and PhD theses in the specialities "Theory of Fine Arts", "Theory, History and Restoration of Architecture", "Technical Aesthetics".

Biography

● 1948 — born on 10 June in the village of Nitsakha, Trostianets district, Sumy region● 1976 — graduated from the Kyiv State Art Institute with a degree in Architecture● 1976—1979 — lectured at the Department of Graphics at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute● 1976—2004 — Lecturer, Head of the Department of Theory, History of Architecture and Synthesis of Arts, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture● 2004—2007 — Rector of the Mykhailo Boichuk Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design● 2002—2004 — Corresponding Member of the NAA of Ukraine● 2007 — elected as the Chief Scientific Secretary of the NAA of Ukraine● 2015 — elected Vice-President of the NAA of Ukraine● 2017 — elected First Vice-President of the NAA of Ukraine● Member of the National Union of Architects of Ukraine● Honorary Doctor of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (2011)