Building Drawings/Drawing Buildings: The Works of Sergei Tchoban
?A drawing should be a key to the understanding of architecture ? what is there to like or dislike, where do architects? ideas come from, how do these ideas make it to paper, and what is important in this process.? - Sergei Tchoban
© Shi Jiaxin
?A drawing should be a key to the understanding of architecture ? what is there to like or dislike, where do architects? ideas come from, how do these ideas make it to paper, and what is important in this process.? - Sergei TchobanFor the past month the Russian-German architect, artist, and collector Sergei Tchoban has been the focus of the exhibition, Sergei Tchoban: Drawing Buildings/Building Drawings, bringing together fifty of the architect?s large-scale urban fantasy drawings. These drawings, while intriguing for their technical and artistic value, also reflect Tchoban's deeply personal contemplations about the past, present, and future of his favorite cities - Saint Petersburg, Rome, Amsterdam, Venice, Berlin, New York ? along with in-depth documentation of five realized projects (two museums, two exhibition pavilions, and a theater stage design.)
© Courtesy of Sergei Tchoban
?Many of us will name Paris, Venice, Rome, or Saint Petersburg, my hometown, as our favorite cities?" explains Tchoban. "I also like London and Milan where contemporaneity plays an important and contrasting role in its dialogue with historical fabric. There are numerous theories about Modernist and contemporary archi...
© Shi Jiaxin
?A drawing should be a key to the understanding of architecture ? what is there to like or dislike, where do architects? ideas come from, how do these ideas make it to paper, and what is important in this process.? - Sergei TchobanFor the past month the Russian-German architect, artist, and collector Sergei Tchoban has been the focus of the exhibition, Sergei Tchoban: Drawing Buildings/Building Drawings, bringing together fifty of the architect?s large-scale urban fantasy drawings. These drawings, while intriguing for their technical and artistic value, also reflect Tchoban's deeply personal contemplations about the past, present, and future of his favorite cities - Saint Petersburg, Rome, Amsterdam, Venice, Berlin, New York ? along with in-depth documentation of five realized projects (two museums, two exhibition pavilions, and a theater stage design.)
© Courtesy of Sergei Tchoban
?Many of us will name Paris, Venice, Rome, or Saint Petersburg, my hometown, as our favorite cities?" explains Tchoban. "I also like London and Milan where contemporaneity plays an important and contrasting role in its dialogue with historical fabric. There are numerous theories about Modernist and contemporary archi...
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