„Save Ukrainian Heritage“

Since 2018, the Baukunstarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, located in Dortmund, has been dedicated to documenting and scientifically processing the built heritage in NRW, securing and systematising posthumous and prehumous material from the fields of architecture, urban architecture and engineering and thus serving to preserve building culture. The Baukunstarchiv is now supporting the work of the Ukrainian architecture group Skeiron with a special exhibition that deals in advance with the digital preservation of buildings threatened by war destruction. Until 15 October 2023, the show "Save Ukrainian Heritage" - Digital Models of Threatened Buildings in Ukraine can be seen in the Garden Hall.

The architects of Skeiron specialised in digital recordings of protected monuments using the latest technology even before the Russian war of aggression began, and have continued their work under the most difficult conditions ever since. The focus is on the recording of threatened buildings, which are photographed before a feared destruction during the war, in order to enable a later reconstruction. The Baukunstarchiv shows some of these spectacular models on posters and as interactive, digital 3D models - also with the aim of making Ukraine's hitherto little-noticed architectural heritage better known.