“Not everything that seems trendy ages well.” Hardly any other sentence better sums up Sergei Tchoban’s approach. His architecture thinks in terms of time rather than trends: it is precise, mindful of materials and characterised by a deep interest in how buildings become part of a city – and can remain so.
In the JUNG Talks podcast, Dijane Slavic and Dr Uwe Bresan talk to Sergei Tchoban about sustainable building – encompassing timber, existing structures and resource conservation – about materials that are allowed to age, and about why durability is perhaps more radical today than constant reinvention. The discussion centres on architecture as a process of continuous development, on lightness and atmosphere, on the relationship between existing buildings and the present, and on buildings that aspire to be more than just fleeting images. He also talks about the Museum of Architectural Drawing, the hand-drawn sketch as a tool for thinking, and the transformation of architectural design in the age of AI.
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Since its launch in April 2020, over 240 episodes of the JUNG Architecture Podcast have been produced. The podcast has recorded over 155,000 views from 20 countries via the JUNG website, as well as around 55,000 plays each on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. New episodes are released every 14 days on Fridays.