Murad Hasratyan ( hy, Մուրադ Հասրաթյան; born June 20, 1935) is an

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Biography

He was born in

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to an educated family. His father,

Morus Hasratyan Morus (Margar) Stepani Hasratyan ( Armenian: Մորուս Հասրաթյան, September 10, 1902 – February 25, 1979), was an Armenian historian, philologist, associate member at the Armenian National Academy of Sciences (in 1963), honored f ...

was a renowned historian-philologist, honorary figure of the

Armenian SSR The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic,; russian: Армянская Советская Социалистическая Республика, translit=Armyanskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika) also commonly referred to as Soviet A ...

, the first student of the Faculty of History at Yerevan State University, later, he was the Director of

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. In 1958 he graduated from the Architecture Department of the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute with a diploma of excellence, receiving the qualification "Architect" At the institute he was taught by the professors Rafayel Israyelyan, Samvel Safaryan,

Varazdat Harutyunyan Varazdat Harutyunyan (also Harutiunian, hy, Վարազդատ Հարությունյան; 29 November 1909 – 20 March 2008) was an Armenian academic, architect and writer. Biography Harutyunyan was born in the Ottoman Empire, in the town ...

, and the head of his diploma work was Mikayel Mazmanyan.

Career

As a senior architect, he started to work at the newly opened Yerevan Project Institute, in Gevorg Tamanyan studio. He designed several projects: residential and administrative buildings, schools (afte
Shirvanzade
1961), designed the plans of the settlement after

Lukashin Lukashin ( hy, Լուկաշին; formerly, Imeni Mikoyana), is a village in the Armavir Province of Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asi ...

and the settlements of

Kanaker Kanaker ( hy, Քանաքեռ; also Romanized as K’anak’err, Kenaker, Kanaker, and Qanaqer) was a town in Armenia to the north-east of the capital Yerevan. With the urban development, the village was gradually absorbed by the capital Yerevan t ...

Hydro Power Plant (1959-1961) Since 1964, he worked at Academy of Arts of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia as a junior researcher, then he became the Scientific Secretary of the Institute. In 1969 he became a

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with defending his thesis on "“Architectural complexes of Syunik region 16-18th centuries". He has headed the Architecture Department of the Institute of Arts of the

Armenian Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia (NAS RA) ( hy, Հայաստանի Հանրապետության գիտությունների ազգային ակադեմիա, ՀՀ ԳԱԱ, ''Hayastani Hanrapetut’yan gitut’yunneri az ...

since 1988. Since 1999 he teaches at the Yerevan State university.

Researches

M. Hasratyan has measured around 150 monuments in Armenia. He was the first one to research and put into scientific circulation: Tashi’s monument, early

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monuments of

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, Sarakap, the monasteries in Artsakh-

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Dadivank Dadivank ( hy, Դադիվանք) or Khutavank ( hy, Խութավանք, translation=monastery on the hillЖеан-Паул Лабурдетьте, Доминикуе Аузиас, Армения, Petit Futé, 2007 – p. 203) is an Armenian Ap ...

, Khratravank, Gandzasar Monastery, Gtchavank, and numerous churches, including the famous Ghazanchetsots Cathedral, have been measured by the medieval Armenian architectural monuments of the Nagorno-Karabakh region. In Nakhichevan Hasratyan "has been measuring, analyzing, and putting in scientific circulation many monuments, including the Astrapid Red Monastery, which had been destroyed by the “owners” of Nakhichevan not long after and continues to exist only in M. Hasratyan's assessments and descriptions. He was the first to explore the Armenian-

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, Armenian-

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, Armenian -Iranian architectural relations

Books

Hasratyan is the author of nearly two dozen books, numerous brochures, hundreds of articles, theses, reviews and encyclopedia articles published in Armenia, Moscow, Kiev, Tbilisi, Paris, Lyon, Vienna, Lisbon, Rome, Venice, Milan, Bologna, Naples , Montreal, Yokohama, Ankara. Hasratyan's first book was about the architecture of Yerevan, his birthplace, which was published in

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on the 2750th anniversary of the founding of Yerevan in 1968, in co-authorship with Varazdat Harutyunyan and Arsen Melikyan in 1968. The same composition of the author on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the

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was published in Moscow in 1972 by the "Architecture of Soviet Armenia"։ For the collective fundamental work of "History of Armenian Art", which authored sections dedicated to the history of

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Hasratyan was awarded the 2009 State Prize in Fine Arts. Co-author of several Armenian architectural history (Yerevan, Russian language, 1968, “

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of Soviet

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, in Russian language 1972, “ Kecharis”, in English and Italian languages, 1982 “ Gandzasar”). .

Memberships

1998-Associate member of Armenia's engineering academy 2006-associate member in the National Academy of Sciences of RA 2015-Associate member of the

International Academy of Architecture The International Academy of Architecture - ''a non-profit-making company for performing activities for private benefit'' (IAA, bg, Международна архитектурна академия) is a non-governmental and non-profit organizat ...

Awards

* State Prize of Armenia, 2009 * Gold Medal of Yerevan * National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Prize after Toros Toramanyan for his work “Armenian architecture during Early Christianity period", Moscow 2010 *Prime Minister's Commemorative Medal *

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prize winner (1971) *

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(1993)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hasratyan, Murad 1935 births Architects from Yerevan Living people National Polytechnic University of Armenia alumni