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We Traveled All the Way to the Balkans to Find the Barber Crafting Architectural Marvels

The Guggenheim, the Sydney Opera House, and other controversial architectural icons define their cities' style. But what if they shaped our scalps as well?

From a barbershop in Katowice, Poland, Bohdan Vasylkov transforms men’s scalps into plinths for outrageous sculptures, producing results both tender and masterful. For CULTURED at Home, he transformed four heads of hair into controversial feats of architecture from across the world.

Haircut by Bohdan Vasylkov made to look like Guggenheim Museum by Frank Lloyd Wright in New York City

Guggenheim Museum

Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
Built: 1959
New York, New York

Architetural haircut barber design

Sydney Opera House

Architect: Jørn Utzon AC, Peter Hall
Built: 1973
Sydney, Australia

Architectural barber haircut design

Pyramid at the Louvre

Architect: I.M. Pei (Ieoh Ming Pei)
Built: 1989
Paris, France

Heydar Aliyev Center

Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects
Built: 2012
Baku, Azerbaijan

 

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