The 6th Award named after Jurgis Baltrušaitis Jr. presented in Yerevan
On 17 November, the 6th Award named after Jurgis Baltrušaitis Jr. was presented at the National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia. This year's winner is Astghik Ghazaryan, a second-year master's student at the Faculty of Architecture, who presented a project for the reorganization of the area adjacent to Vardanants, Shahinyan, Charents streets in Yerevan. The second secretary of the Embassy Evaldas Galvanauskas congratulated the winner.
The award has been established together with Petros Aloyan Foundation, Mediamax news agency and the National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia in 2017, at the initiative of the Embassy of Lithuania in Armenia.
Jurgis Baltrušaitis Jr. (1903-1988) was a prominent art historian and diplomat of Lithuania, he is known as historian of the pastoral architecture of the Caucasus. He published two books about architecture of Armenia and Georgia in 1929 and 1936. J. Baltrušaitis Jr. is also the author of the work "Julfa of the Arax and its Funerary Monuments" which presents thousands of khachkars (cross-stones), many of which were destroyed.
