The impressions that this monograph produces are varied - starting with an interview that does not look like a traditional interrogation-report on creative successes, but more like a friendly conversation about architecture - and not so much about your own as about the subject in general. This is followed by a very theoretical, concept-rich article by Ksenia Akserold, and then - comments on objects, sometimes formal art criticism, sometimes almost hooligan - which is at least a passage about the frustration of an architect in the historical center of Moscow.
It seems to me that the architecture of Nadtochiy and Butko also differs with such a variety of impressions - they somehow managed to transfer the effect of the interior, in which the gaze constantly falls on something new, on entire buildings and complexes. Their architecture is constantly changing. If the plan is rectangular, then she really feels bad and she makes a mess at the level of the upper floors. If the house cannot be bent and knotted like a Corian plate, then the lines break at sharp angles. If sharp angles are not enough, color and texture are included. However, they are always and always active. Well, as a last resort, you can make a hole in the floor by covering it with glass. How architects manage to avoid oversaturation with such plastic activity is difficult to say, but somehow they succeed.
Many architects start with interiors. But the majority either "gets stuck" in some typology, or quickly and reliably rejects the "passed", leaving it "behind" and then carefully specialize. The path of Butko and Nadtochy is traditional for those who started in the nineties: from interior to villas and further to urban buildings, but they do not strive for specialization, finding architecture - and, according to their own statement, always only her - and on a small on a large scale … This is beneficial because it puts creativity above typology and removes unnecessary boundaries, but it is also difficult because specialization is designed to make work easier. However, this approach ensures constant growth - after the renovations, interiors and villas, the boarding complex in Kozhukhovo aroused general interest and received all possible awards. Who knows, although architects compare the plasticity of a skyscraper in complexity with a teapot, perhaps in the foreseeable future we should expect the appearance of a tower from “Atruim” - some kind of special one.
