Artak Ghulyan
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Artak Ghulyan
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| Born |
December 28, 1958 Gyulistan, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR |
| Nationality | Armenian |
| Alma mater | National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Awards | "Honored Architect of the Republic of Armenia" "State Prize of the Republic of Armenia" (2013) |
| Website | www |
| Practice | Ghulyan Architects |
| Buildings |
Saint John the Baptist Church, Holy Transfiguration Cathedral, Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Manuscript Library |
Artak Ghulyan (Armenian: Արտակ Ղուլյան; December 28, 1958), is an Armenian architect and designer, Doctor of Architecture, Docent (Associate professor), and professor of the International Academy of Architecture. In September 2013, he received the title of "Honored Architect of the Republic of Armenia". In December 2013, he received the "State Prize of the Republic of Armenia" for the design of the Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Manuscript Library building at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin.
Ghulyan is an author of many civil buildings and monuments, but his fame is mainly based on his evolutionary designs of new Armenian churches.
Artak Ghulyan was born in 1958 in Gyulistan village of the Shahumyan Region, a majority-Armenian administrative unit outside the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, within the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR. His parents were teachers at the school of the village.
After completing his secondary education in his native village with honorary degrees in 1976, Ghulyan moved to Yerevan to study architecture at the National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia, known as the Karl Marx Institute of Polytechnic during the Soviet period. He was graduated from the university in 1981.
Between 1981 and 1988 Ghulyan has worked as an assistant lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture of the Polytechnic Institute, teaching the basics of architectural design. Between 1988 and 1991 he was employed by the Art Institute of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences to work at the Department of Architecture. Between 1991 and 1994, Ghulyan has worked as the chief of the Department of Medieval Monuments of the Board of Monuments Preservation of the Republic of Armenia. In 1994, he became a senior co-worker of the National Academy's art institute. Between 1988 and 2010, Ghulyan concurrently worked as a teacher in the Faculty of Architetc of the National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia lecturing the theory of architect and about the restoration of historic monuments. In 2002, Ghulyan became a Docent (Associate professor), and later in 2006 he received his PhD degree in architecture from the University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia.
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