Architectural Worlds / Architekturwelten

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ISBN: 9783868590470
English/German edition
Jovis Verlag
Hardcover, 128 pages
22 x 26,5 cm
black & white
January 2010
€28,11 (excl. VAT)

Architectural Worlds / Architekturwelten

Sergei Tchoban – Draftsman and Collector

Eva-Maria Barkhofen Ed(s)

The possibilities for expression of architectural drawings open to draftsmen are as varied as the thoughts they care to think. For that reason 'paper architecture' occupies a very special position among the graphic arts. Drawings of architectural worlds continue to exert a fascination on viewers today.

Sergei Tchoban, architect, virtuoso, draftsman and passionate collector of drawings by European architects and painters dating from the 17th century, shows his own work in this book selected from a dialog with pieces in his collection ranging almost 30 years.

Since the collection focuses on motifs of ancient, Baroque, and classicistic architecture, the spectrum of Tchoban’s perspectival-illusionist representations is correspondingly broad. His works range from drawings marked by the play of water and light from his hometown of St. Petersburg, to travel impressions, fantasies, and visionary studies.