Yevhen Nahirnyi

Yevhen Nahirnyi (; 13 August 1885 – 8 June 1951) was a Ukrainian architect.

Biography Yevhen Nahirnyi was born on 13 August 1885 in Rudne, now the Lviv urban hromada of the Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.

In 1912 he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Lviv Polytechnic School. From 1946 he taught at higher education institutions in Lviv; head of the Department of Architecture at the Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts.

Works In 1905–1921 he worked with his father Vasyl Nahirnyi in Lviv. Nahirnyi is the author of more than 500 residential, public, and church buildings in Western Ukraine.

For the construction of houses in Lviv, Nahirnyi used the styles of neoclassicism and functionalism; for sacred buildings, he used Ukrainian Baroque and folk architecture. When designing wooden churches, he mainly developed the traditions of the Boyko school. Also, neo-historicism and modernism can be observed in Nahirny's works.