Simon Vasilevich Rastorguev (; born 1981 in

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) is a Russian architect specialising in reconstruction-restoration.

Biography

Rastorguev studied architecture at Yaroslavl State Technical University and later finished a postgraduate course in cultural studies and journalism. He has worked with the

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-based firm Project Meganom and is the editor-in-chief of Chaos Research Center, a blog about conceptual architecture. As of 2017, he led the Simon Rastorguev Design Group. As an organiser of the Social Revolution festival, he held an architectural competition focused on

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in 2012; the PARKing competition in 2013; and a design competition for an architectural work underneath a bridge in 2014; among others. He also spoke on the

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at the 2013 rendition of the festival. Throughout his career, Rastorguev has created digital renderings of cities, business centers, and buildings, including as part of the millennium celebration of Yaroslavl; a futuristic multifunctional complex in

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, Kazakhstan called the Borovoye-Biocity; a self-sustaining cottage resembling a

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; and a reconstruction of Volkov Square in Yaroslavl. He oversaw a large-scale project in 2022-2024 that showed around one hundred planned but unrealised buildings in Moscow between 1920-1970. Rastorguev exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2004, 2008, and 2014: Laguna Proun, a settlement that minimally disturbs the laguna ecosystem (2004); Bornhouse at

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(2008); and City of Money (2014). His work was featured at the

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in 2007 and 2008 (Persimfance). Among his other exhibitions are BioCity, 2002 (Berlin); City of the Young, 2002—2004 (TSSI "ARS-Forum"); BIRDS, 2003; Cottage village "Ogorodnik sleep," 2005 (Barcelona);; Grass City, 2010 (St. Petersburg); and Guilty Money, 2011 (Moscow). He participated in the Arch Moscow international exhibitions held by Architecture and Design between 2007 and 2013; in the Dom-Avtonom competitions for self-sustaining houses between 2007 and 2009; and in the architectural festival Golden chapiter in

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in 2009. An image of Rastorguev's work appeared on the cover of the September-October 2002 issue of ''Build'' architecture magazine. In 2011, a documentary in the "30-year-old..." series about young talent covered his career. His realised projects include: * 2005 - Tsargrad hotel and restaurant (

) * 2016 - Parametric Residence (Uspenskoe,

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), private resident * 2017 - Bitrix 24 office (Moscow) * 2019 - North Park apartment (Moscow), private resident

Awards

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A short documentary about Rastorguev's work
from the

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on the Center for Chaos Research webpage

References

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