Lviv Polytechnic

The global climate system shows signs of rapid changes called a Climatic Transition in specialized literature. The article has studied climate trends in territorial (global, macro-climatic, meso-climatic, and micro-climatic) and time limits (historical overview; current state; long-term, medium-term, and short-term prospects). The most probable medium-term forecasts until 2050 have been taken as a basis.

The article analyzes the peculiarities of organizing of laboratories work in Lviv Polytechnic during the Soviet period on the basis of archival documents. The beginning of the Second World War interrupted the educational and scientific work of the institution and seriously damaged the material base. Accordingly, the processes of restoring the work of laboratories, solving the difficulties of their equipment, developing directions of research work of the post-war stage are an interesting subject for research. In 1944 the scientific and research sector was established at the institute.

Створення у 2012 р. в Інституті архітектури спеціалізованої вченої ради Д 35.052.11 із захисту дисертацій на здобуття наукового ступеня доктора наук на базі спеціалізованої вченої ради К 35.052.11, яка працювала від 1998 р., сприяло зростанню наукових кадрів Львівської політехніки, зміцненню регіональної школи та утвердило її вплив на формування наукової думки в Україні.

The article presents the area of activity of Polish professors and graduates of the Architecture Department of Lviv Polytechnic after their forced emigration in 1946 from Lviv. Their professional and educational activity under the new social and political conditions was shown. Their contribution to the formation of professional architectural education in Poland in the postwar period was determined.

The theme of this article is teaching architectural drawing skills. The sequence and stages of public buildings interior drawing are described here. The steps of interiors perspective construction are described taking Lviv Polytechnic National University interiors as an example. Common student’s difficulties and mistakes are analyzed since architectural life drawing of the historical buildings’ interiors on the spot is useful for obtaining knowledge and skills in professional education of architecture students.

The article deals with the functioning of the architectural faculty of Lviv Polytechnic during the period of the Second World War. The activities of professors in the conditions of the formation of Soviet power, as well as in the situation of German occupation, are shown.