#23 Sergei Tchoban (DE), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

Let’s travel to both Berlin (Germany) to meet the architect / drawer / collector of drawings / museum director Sergei Tchoban.

Sergei Tchoban has a sery simple trick to discover architecture, he asks one simple question: “Would I want to draw this project?”

In fact, he draws a lot and for a number of reasons, one of them being: to remember “to draw by hand is a way to later remember certain proportions when we are drawing our own projects”.

Unlike what we might think…it might be easier to draw historical buildings than contemporary ones. In the former, any mistaken line can be understood as a detail of the facade of that building. Meanwhile, in the later, in a contemporary building you either have the line right or wrong.

We talk about cats in Le Corbusier’s “Swiss Pavilion”.

We talk about toilets in Nicolas Ledoux’s “La Rotunde du Parc de Monceau”.

We also talk about possible connections with Piranesi’s dystopias - but with a positive intake instead - and the very curious framings of Pietro di Gonzaga. 

“It is a mise-en-scène, architecture is an important part of mise-en-scène”.

Guest: Sergei Tchoban (Berlin, Germany)

Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal)

Upload your references to: arquiteturaentrevistas.com

Instagram @arquiteturaentrevistas

Follow for more thoughts on architecture.