Radoslav Zuk
1931 - February 25, 2024

Ukrainian-Canadian architect and professor Radoslav Zuk passed away on February 25, 2024.

Zuk was born in Labacziw, Ukraine, and studied music in Austria before moving to Canada to pursue a Bachelor of Architecture at McGill University.

During his time at school, Zuk won multiple prizes, including the Lieutenant Governor’s Bronze Medal, the Dunlop Travelling Scholarship, and the Pilkington Travelling Scholarship, which he used to travel in Europe.

Zuk later pursued a Master’s degree in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was hired by the University of Manitoba Faculty of Architecture following graduation. He taught there as an assistant professor from 1960 to 1964.

Zuk registered with the Manitoba Association of Architects in 1961 and created various works for the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Winnipeg including St. Joseph’s Ukrainian Catholic Church and St. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church.

Zuk later returned to McGill University to teach and was the recipient of the Faculty of Engineering Ida and Samuel Fromson Award for Outstanding Teaching. He held the title of Professor Emeritus. In 1986, Zuk won a Governor General’s Medal for Architecture for St. Stephen’s Byzantine Ukrainian Catholic Church in Calgary and earned the State Prize of Ukraine for Architecture for the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, Lviv, Ukraine in 2011.

Zuk also taught at the University of Toronto, and was an Honorary Professor of the Kyiv Technical University of Building and Architecture and a Professor of the Ukrainian Free University in Munich.