Researchers
Olha Tikhonova
Date and institution PhD awarded:
March 23 2020, Lisbon School of Architecture, University of Lisbon, Portugal
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Architectural Theory and History; Rehabilitation of Historic Buildings
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Olha Tikhonova is a doctor cum laude with international mention from Lisbon School of Architecture (Portugal). She has already been a research fellow in three countries.
Olha was awarded several scholarships during her Ph.D. studies, including a research scholarship at Lisbon School of Architecture in Portugal, namely INFINITY project, funded by the Erasmus Mundus Programme (09/2014–07/2017); a Research Fellowship Training in Warsaw (Poland), sponsored by East European Summer School (July 2016); and a research fellowship at Technische Universität Wien (Austria), Fakultät für Raumplanung und Architektur, financed by the Scholarship Foundation of the Republic of Austria (01/2018–04/2018). Furthermore, from 2020-to 2021 she worked on the RIACT project in the post-doc position at the University of Porto (Portugal).
Olha is extensively published in architectural journals, with related expertise in architectural theory, conservation of architectural monuments, urban analysis, space syntax, and GIS.
- [with J. N. Beirão] “A Tale of Two Cities – A comparative study of historical urban cores,” J. Urban. Int. Res. Placemaking Urban Sustain., vol. 13, no. 4 (2020), pp. 448–465.
- “New Approach to Proportional Analysis of Palladio’s Designs in Book II with Particular Attention to Loggias,” Nexus Netw. J., May 2019.
- “Architectural Morphology of Fortified Palace in Pidhirtsi, Ukraine,” in: 6th Annual International Conference on Architecture and Civil Engineering, 2018, pp. 40–47.
- [with O. Bilinska and Y. Idak] “The problems of forming a space structure of the Maria Magdalena’s Church in Lviv,” Lviv Polytech. Announc. Archit., vol. 674 (2010), pp. 133–139.
- [with M. Bevz] “Castles of Ivano-Frankivsk region: the problems of identification and inventory,” Announc. Archit. Kyiv Natl. Univ. Constr. Archit., 2013, pp. 175–177.
- [with C. Alho] “Authenticity criteria in castles of Ivano-Frankivsk Region,” Eur. Sci. J., 2015, pp. 1857–7881.
- “Reading the history of Bastion castles in Galicia (Eastern Europe) using Friedrich von Mieg Map,” in: Defence Sites III: Heritage and Future, vol. 158, WITpress, Southampton, Boston, 2016, pp. 73–84.
- [with M. Toussaint] “Bastion castles of Galicia Region (Eastern Europe) in the planning structure of historical city,” in: The book of heritage vs Tourism: an international point of view, vol. 2, ed. L. Pinto, Varzea da Rainha Impressores, S.A, Lisboa, 2017, pp. 133–140.
- “Understanding a Bastion Castle in Pidhirtsi Using the Space Patterns System for Spatial Analysis,” in: Formal Methods in Architecture, 2021, pp. 221–229.
