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My Take
What fascinates me about Tchoban is the gap between scale and intimacy in his work. The same man who put up Moscow's Federation Tower also founded a whole museum in Berlin devoted to architectural drawing, the most ephemeral, throwaway stage of design. That tells me he respects the hand and the line as much as the steel and glass, which is rarer than you'd think among builders of giants. Straddling Russia and Germany, he carries two traditions without flattening either. I read him as a craftsman who never let ambition crowd out delicacy, and I find that balance genuinely admirable.
Overview
Sergei Tchoban (Russian: Сергей Чобан, German: Sergej Tschoban; born 9 October 1962 in Saint Petersburg) is a Russo-German architect and artist. He is a managing partner of the architectural firm TCHOBAN VOSS Architekten and founder of the Tchoban Foundation, which has been based in the Museum for Architectural Drawing in Berlin since 2013.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Sergei Enwerowitsch Tchoban
- Name (Japanese)
- セルゲイ・チョーバン
- Reading
- せるげい・ちょーばん
- Born
- October 9, 1962 (age 63)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Libra / Tiger
- Origin
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- architect / artist / draftsperson
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | Federation Tower | — |
6. Links
Architect — see all → · Artist — see all → · More people from Russia →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.