Ievgeniia Gubkina

Ievgeniia 'Jenia' Gubkina is a Ukrainian architect, architectural and urban historian, and curator. Her work focuses on 20th-century architecture and urban planning in Ukraine, with a multidisciplinary approach to heritage studies. She co-founded Urban Forms Center, a leading NGO in the field of studying and promoting modernist heritage in Ukraine. Jenia authored several books including “Soviet Modernism. Brutalism. Post-Modernism” (2019) and "Being a Ukrainian Architect During Wartime" (2023). In 2020–2021 she curated the Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Architecture, an online multimedia project. In 2022, due to the outbreak of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, she was forced to flee her hometown of Kharkiv. Starting in 2023 Jenia is a tutor and lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL.