Sergei Tchoban

The exhibition « Une ville dessinée / A drawn city » by the German-Russian architect and artist Sergei Tchoban reflects the high-contrast interplay between historical and modern architecture, as it is so strongly traced in modern cities. It highlights the artist’s dedication to architectural drawings : structures of European city combined with futuristic elements, and consider them in interaction and in correlation with his built architecture. His different architectural expressions are determined by the inclusion of the urban context and the physical and historical conditions of each site.

Tchoban brings together visualized and constructed ideas on paper. Drawing is an essential component of Sergei Tchoban´s communication tool that gives him the ability to translate his ideas and visions about the relationship between contemporary and historical architecture, as well as iconic buildings and built background – architecture. With his drawings, Tchoban often brushes the topic of how contemporary architecture can exist in historic urban contexts, and how new layers play an important role in creating the heritage of the future.