Defence housing in the 18th century and its genesis in the cultural landscape of the Ukrainian village

In Ukraine, the register of monuments that characterise the cultural suburban landscape includes only a few objects. However, the remains of walls or ramparts of defensive dwellings and their territory are not officially recorded, and, in most cases, their historical boundaries are not considered when distributing village land. The purpose of this study was to characterise the planning and spatial solution and genesis of defence housing from the 18th century in the cultural landscape of the Ukrainian village. The study was conducted in the Lviv region. The study was based on a comparative analysis of the functioning of defence housing at three stages of its existence. About 40 objects were analysed for their location in the village structure. The planning and origin of 3 defence housing objects were studied in detail. No small rural defence courtyards exist in the Lviv region as of 2025. However, the land within the defensive walls and on the site of former gardens created during the development of the defensive yard into a residence estate is often undeveloped. Defensive courtyards, which have undergone a long evolutionary path, are a particular type of dwelling in landscape architecture that evolved into the complete opposite – from a walled dwelling to a dwelling with a garden and a park. The defence housing study confirmed Eastern Galicia’s intensive urban development. Fixing memory of the region’s culture and architecture by marking the territories of former defensive structures is appropriate when creating tourist and educational routes in historical centers of settlement