Tulkinoy Kadirova

Tulkinoy Fazildjanovna Kadirova (Kadyrova) was born on 27 July 1935 in Tashkent. From 1953 to 1959 she studied at the Central Asian Polytechnic Institute and qualified as an architect.

From 1959 she worked at the Institute of Art Studies, first as a junior and then as a senior researcher, and completed her postgraduate studies there in the early 1960s. Her scholarly interests were urban planning, the history and theory of architecture and the use of folk traditions in modern building. In the 1970s she published “Modern Architecture of Uzbekistan” and “Architecture of Central Tashkent”, the guidebook “Tashkent” prepared with the architect Mitkhat Bulatov, and “To Live in Order to Create”, a book about Bulatov himself.

In 1976 she was awarded the title of Honoured Architect of the Uzbek SSR. In 1980–1992 she chaired the Union of Architects of Uzbekistan, and in 1984–1994 she was a deputy of the republic’s Supreme Soviet. Her monograph “Architecture of Soviet Uzbekistan” was published by Stroyizdat in Moscow in 1987, and in 1988 she received the Hamza State Prize of the Uzbek SSR for a monograph on the republic’s architecture.

In the 1990s she was deputy general director for construction at Kamalak, an American–Uzbek joint venture. She later became a professor at the Tashkent Institute of Architecture and Civil Engineering, headed its department of history and theory of architecture from 2005 and defended a doctoral dissertation in 2008. She was elected a corresponding member of the International Academy of Architecture of Oriental Countries in 1999 and a full member in 2003. Her book on the paths of architectural revival in Uzbekistan in the 20th and early 21st centuries appeared in 2007.

Kadirova died in 2014.