For more than twenty recent years, Boris Stuchebryukov was Boris Levyant's colleague in the leadership of ABD architects, “deputy general director for design,” in his own words - he built houses, and much makes one think that some significant part of the shaping of ABD architecture came from him. Although the architects have repeatedly emphasized that they do not interfere with the work of the bureau's GAPs, giving them freedom and responsibility, I want to see some consonances between the kinetic objects that Stuchebryukov made and exhibited starting in the eighties. In some ABD projects, there is a poetics of a simple-complex mechanism that resonates with its self-stressed structures, both incredible and elementary. "Galatea" of 22,250 blades looks like a hedgehog, jellyfish and stadiums of world "stars" seen from an airplane, but unlike stadiums, it is mobile.
Object "Galatea" at the Science Art Festival:
The similarity between the architecture and the object may not be important, but it may not be true, an accident. It is true that Boris Stuchebryukov was serious about architectural morality and ethics, both in terms of the quality of work and compliance with all norms. He did not complain about the experience of designing panel houses in Mosgrazhdanproekt, but appreciated it (see interview). He respected the organizational experience and "ability to work" of foreign colleagues, but did not think that Russian architects were weaker than their creativity. He loved the Russian rationalism of the twenties and considered himself its follower, and in 2000 he arranged a retrospective exhibition of his kinetic works, comparing them with the mechanisms of the 19th century by Pafnutiy Chebyshev. His interest in roots did not lead him to copying and repetition, even in the avant-garde. Stuchebryukov got some kind of rationalism of his own. Rational but not minimalistic, beautiful but not over-the-top. Which returns to the kinetic objects, about which Vyacheslav Koleichuk wrote in the catalog of kineticism, that “in the hands of the author, the steel“fabric”begins to shimmer,” and that they have great play potential (1994, see the quote from the catalog). Indeed, you just want to pick up the "hedgehog" made of blades, even if you are wearing gloves.
Boris Stuchebryukov talks about his objects:
Boris Dmitrievich Stuchebryukov was born in 1950 in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, studied chemistry at the Moscow Institute of Fine Chemical Technology, studied at the University of Tomsk. He graduated as an architect in 1980 at the Moscow Institute of Land Management, where Andrei Vladimirovich Ikonnikov and Selim Omarovich Khan-Magomedov taught at that time. Since 1985 a member of the Union of Architects, since 1994 a member of the Moscow Union of Artists.
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