After more than one year of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine thousands of civilians
have been killed and thousands of buildings heritage sites and entire cities have been
damaged. Along with millions of other Ukrainian women and children architectural historian
Ievgeniia Gubkina had to leave the country moving further away from the Russian threat in
search of safety. Her hometown Kharkiv still remains a target for the Russian army. The war has
dramatically changed the geographies of nearly all Ukrainians and returned the work of an
architectural critic to the traditional mainstream of journalism. This shift has taken
Gubkina's thoughts from the academic context and made them more akin to war reporting. This
book contains papers presented printed or published online by various media in different
parts of the world during the first eight months of the all-out war. Most of the texts were
written in late spring and summer 2022 after Ievgeniia and her teenage daughter had evacuated
to Paris.
