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