Biography

1962 born in St. Petersburg 1980-1986 studied architecture at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts 1991 Relocation to Germany Since 1992 Member of the American Society of Architectural Illustrators (ASAI) Since 1995 German citizenship Since 1995 Partner at Nietz– Prasch–Sigl und Partner Architekten BDA, Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden, since 2017 TCHOBAN VOSS Architekten GmbH Since 1996 Head of the Berlin office within the partnership 2009 Founder of the Tchoban Foundation – Museum for Architectural Drawing, Berlin 2018 European Prize for Architecture of the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design for his complete work 2020 President of the American Society of Architectural Illustrators (ASAI) Sergei Tchoban is an internationally active German architect. He is managing partner of TCHOBAN VOSS Architekten and head of the Berlin office. Tchoban studied architecture at the Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. He has lived in Germany since 1991 and has held German citizenship since 1995. After starting at NPS Nietz - Prasch - Sigl in Hamburg in 1992, Tchoban became managing partner of the architectural office now known as TCHOBAN VOSS Architekten in 1995. In 2009, the Tchoban Foundation was established, which is based in the Museum for Architectural Drawing built for this purpose in 2013. Numerous residential and office buildings, hotels, cultural buildings and revitalisation projects have been created according to his designs and plans, including EDGE Suedkreuz Berlin, Germany's largest office ensemble in sustainable timber hybrid construction, the Berlin Apple store Rosenthaler Strasse, as well as the revitalisation of the Ernst-Reuter-Platz 6 office building and numerous buildings as part of the master planning for Berlin's Osthafen. In 2020, Tchoban was president of the American Society of Architectural Illustrators ASAI. His architectural drawings have been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries worldwide and are in the collections of international museums, archives as well as in private collections. In 2018, Sergei Tchoban was awarded the European Prize for Architecture by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design for his lifework. Sergei Tchoban is member of the Bund Deutscher Architektinnen und Architekten BDA (Association of German Architects) and the chambers of architects in Hamburg and Berlin. © Holger Talinski