SERGEI TCHOBAN
REALTÀ E FANTASIA CARTOLINE DALL’ITALIA Shared culture creates experience
Sergei Tchoban Realtà e Fantasia Cartoline dall’Italia Architectural drawing has always been one of the most advanced and most powerful ways of giving visible form to the process of intimate study and analysis performed by all architects worthy of the name. The history of architecture is represented with extraordinary vivacity in the thousands and thousands of pages, albums and notebooks that accompany the studies and free visionary imaginations of the many architects who use the technique. If they were all put together, the result would be a brand new, highly courageous story, product of their most inaccessible and daring thoughts. Moreover, there are cultural and geographic traditions of using this tool to lay down the foundations of university and sentimental education, generation after generation. These great focus areas include the Russian-speaking world, where the most significant designers still view design as a vast laboratory in which to lose oneself in search of stimuli for one’s work. Sergei Tchoban is one of the most convincing and original members of the latest generation of Russian architects, the product of a condition falling somewhere between a critical, disenchanted reinterpretation of modernism, the power of the tradition of past centuries and a highly dynamic relationship with the contemporary world. Beyond his prominent built projects, primarily in Russia and Germany, what is most striking about this central figure in contemporary Russian culture is an almost religious dedication to the world of drawing in all its possible forms. A dedicated collector, Tchoban recently set up an independent foundation for the purpose, which supported the design and construction of a museum specifically for drawings in central Berlin.
The building, which completes the corner of an existing industrial complex, has attracted a lot of interest for the importance of its archives and for the many public exhibitions it has hosted. At the same time, over the years Sergei Tchoban has established his own private, highly passionate relationship with the practice of drawing: when he sits down before a blank page, the designer addresses interpretation of historical and contemporary cities, with a special focus on the relationship between the monument and public space, while at the same time working on production of true graphic follies in which the historic memory of places addresses a number of key themes in his work, such as water and motion. A small but representative selection of the extraordinary drawings Tchoban has made over the years may be seen at the important exhibition Realtà e Fantasia. Cartoline dall’Italia at SpazioFMG per l’Architettura during the summer of Expo 2015. Luca Molinari
Curators Luca Molinari Alessandro Benetti Valeria Kashirina and the team of nps tchoban voss Esenija Bannan, Lev Chestakov with the contribution of Martina Mambrin Press Office DigitalMind (+39 041 5951792) Media Partner Corriere della Sera
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Temple of Antonius and Faustina Š Sergei Tchoban
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Future Bridges Š Sergei Tchoban
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Future Bridges Š Sergei Tchoban
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Architectural capriccio Piazza Venezia in Rome Š Sergei Tchoban
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TwoWorlds Film Stage Project Design St.Petersburg Š Sergei Tchoban
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Museum for Architectural Drawing in Berlin Š Sergei Tchoban
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Fantasy drawing for the project of the Museum for Architectural Drawing in Berlin or Evolution of form Š Sergei Tchoban
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The Pantheon in the evening Š Sergei Tchoban
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Urban layers 1 Š Sergei Tchoban
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Urban layers 3 Š Sergei Tchoban
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Film Stage Design Under Electric Clouds Š Sergei Tchoban
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Russia’s Pavilion at EXPO 2015, Milan SPEECH (Moscow). 2015 Photo © Roland Halbe
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Music and Lifestyle Hotel „nhow“, Osthafen, Berlin nps tchoban voss (Berlin). 2010 Photo © Roland Halbe
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Hamburger Hof, Berlin nps tchoban voss (Berlin). 2010 Photo Š RenÊ Hoch
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Museum for Architectural Drawing, Berlin Authors: Sergei Tchoban, Sergey Kuznetsov. SPEECH (Moscow) in cooperation with nps tchoban voss (Berlin). 2013 Photo Š Roland Halbe
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Sergei Tchoban Architekt BDA nps tchoban voss GmbH & Co. KG
1962 1980-1986 1986-1990 from 1992 from 1995 from 2003 2006 2009 2010 2009-2011 sept. 2012 2013-2014
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born in St. Petersburg, Russia studies and diploma at the Ilya Repin Institute, Russian Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg practical work as graduate architect in Russia (since 1989 as freelance architect) work with Nietz - Prasch - Sigl, Hamburg responsible partner of Nietz - Prasch - Sigl und Partner Architekten BDA Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden, head of the Berlin branch nps tchoban voss Architekten BDA foundation of the architectural studio SPEECH, Moscow foundation of the Tchoban Foundation – Museum for Architectural Drawing, Berlin foundation of the studio ST Design member of the urban advisory board of the city of Linz member of the urban advisory board of the city of Moscow lectureship at the Moscow Graduate School of Architecture MARCH
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