Simon Vasilevich Rastorguev (Семён Васи́льевич Расторгу́ев; born 1981 in Yaroslavl)[1] is a Russian architect specialising in reconstruction-restoration.[2]
Biography
Rastorguev studied architecture at Yaroslavl State Technical University and later finished a postgraduate course in cultural studies and journalism.[2][1] He has worked with the Moscow-based firm Project Meganom[2] and is the editor-in-chief of Chaos Research Center, a blog about conceptual architecture.[1] As of 2017, he led the Simon Rastorguev Design Group.[3] As an organiser of the Social Revolution festival, he held an architectural competition focused on social housing in 2012;[4] the PARKing competition in 2013;[5] and a design competition for an architectural work underneath a bridge in 2014;[6] among others. He also spoke on the grotesque at the 2013 rendition of the festival.[citation needed]
Bitrix 24 offices in Moscow
Throughout his career, Rastorguev has created digital renderings of cities, business centers, and buildings,[7] including as part of the millennium celebration of Yaroslavl;[8] a futuristic multifunctional complex in Burabay, Kazakhstan called the Borovoye-Biocity;[9][7] a self-sustaining cottage resembling a hedgehog;[10] and a reconstruction of Volkov Square in Yaroslavl.[11] He oversaw a large-scale project in 2022-2024 that showed around one hundred planned but unrealised buildings in Moscow between 1920-1970.[12]
Rastorguev exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2004, 2008, and 2014:[13] Laguna Proun, a settlement that minimally disturbs the laguna ecosystem (2004);[14] Bornhouse at San Stae (2008);[15][16] and City of Money (2014).[citation needed] His work was featured at the Moscow Biennale in 2007[citation needed] and 2008 (Persimfance).[13] Among his other exhibitions are BioCity, 2002 (Berlin);[citation needed] City of the Young, 2002—2004 (TSSI "ARS-Forum");[13][2] BIRDS, 2003;[13][2] Cottage village "Ogorodnik sleep," 2005 (Barcelona);[citation needed]; Grass City, 2010 (St. Petersburg);[17][13] and Guilty Money, 2011 (Moscow).[18][13]
He participated in the Arch Moscow international exhibitions held by Architecture and Design between 2007 and 2013;[2][13] in the Dom-Avtonom competitions for self-sustaining houses between 2007 and 2009;[19] and in the architectural festival Golden chapiter in Novosibirsk in 2009.[13] An image of Rastorguev's work appeared on the cover[citation needed] 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.[1]
His realised projects include:
2005 - Tsargrad hotel and restaurant (Yaroslavl)[20]
"Se la città è mutante"[Visions of a mutant city](PDF). arcVision (in Italian). No.53. June 2007. pp.80–85. Archived from the original(PDF) on 28 September 2007.[2]
"Russia: Arquitectura despues del comunismo" [Russia: Architecture after communism]. Codigo (in Spanish). No.6140. Summer 2007.
↑социальная революция[Social revolution] (in Russian). Center for Chaos Research. Retrieved 2025-03-20.
↑Rastorguev, Simon (2013-05-11). Конкурсные проекты[Competition projects] (in Russian). Social Revolution Festival. Archived from the original on 2013-08-31.
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