Milka Tcherneva Bliznakov


General Information


Occupation: Architect, educator

Date of Birth: January 01, 1927

Date of Death: November 04, 2010

Birth City: Varna

Birth Country: Bulgaria

Resident City: Blacksburg

Resident State/Province: Virginia

Resident Country: United States

Archive/Repository: IAWA, Special Collection, Newman Library, Ms91-025

Sources: IAWA Online Inventory at: http://spec.lib.vt.edu/iawa/inventories/BliznakovPrize.html


Specialties


Subject: Urban Renewal


Jobs


Employer: University of Texas, School of Architecture

Title: Associate Professor of Architecture and Planning

City: Austin


Employer: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Title: Professor Emeritus

City: Blacksburg


Employer: Virgina Polytechnic Institute and State University, College of Architecture and Urban Studies

Title: Professor

City: Blacksburg


Collaborators


No collaborators on record


Apprenticeships


No apprenticeships on record


Awards


Name: Visiting Scholar, Institute of Advanced Russian Studies


Name: Fulbright Hays Research Fellow

Notes: granted until 1984, again in 1991


Name: William Kinne Scholar


Name: Parthend Award


Name: American Beautiful Foundation grantee


Name: International Research and Exchange Board grantee

Notes: granted until 1993


Name: National Endowment for the Arts grantee


Name: Fulbright Hays Research Fellow


Name: National Endowment for the Arts grantee


Exhibitions


No exhibitions on record


Notable Projects


Description: Urban Renewal

City: Wilmington


Description: Speedwell Avenue Urban Renewal

City: Morristown


Description: Arlington County Redevelopment

City: Arlington


Title: Cultural Area Development

City: Springfield


Education


Institution: Structural Institute, Sofia

Degree: Ph.D., Engineering


Institution: State Polytechinc University, Sofia

Degree: Architecture-Engineering Diploma


Institution: Columbia University

Degree: Ph.D., Architecture


Licensing


No licenses on record


Professional Affiliations


Organization: National Trust Historic Preservation


Organization: Perkins & Will Partnership, White Plains, New York

Role: Designer


Organization: Society of Architectural Historians


Organization: Ministry of Heavy Industry, Sofia

Role: Senior researcher


Organization: Noel Combrisson, Paris, France

Role: Associate architect


Organization: American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies


Organization: Lanthrop Douglas, New York, New York

Role: Project Architect


Organization: Private architecture practice, Sofia


Organization: Association of Collegiate Scholars of Architecture


Organization: American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages

Role: Founder, Chairperson of the Board of Directors


Organization: IAWA, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia

Role: Founder and emeritus member, Board of Administrators


Publications By


Title: Signs of Times, Culture and the Emblems of Apocalypse


Title: Reshaping Russian Architecture


Title: Utopia e Modernit a (collaboration)


Title: Russian Housing in the Middle Age


Title: Nietzche and Soviet Culture


Title: A Bibliographic Guide to their Work, Soviet Women Architects (1917-37)


Title: New Perspectives on Russian and Soviet Artistic Culture


Publications About


No publications about on record