Architectural bureau CHVOYA

Architectural bureau "CHVOYA"
is a well tempered studio for subtle architectural design. Three
of us founded it in 2015, having already been doing stuff together for a decade or so in http://www.quiet-time.ru/ . We love our office. A room in which an architectural bureau resides influences
its product in many ways. Scale is one such. We like being small.
We like the simple relations that emerge between few architects, with design process as comfortable and unimpeded as a hobby.
We enjoy this simplicity.

We believe in form. Sometimes form follows function. Sometimes form guides function and everything else, us included. Sometimes form gives you more than you are capable of comprehending. We like feeling a certain uncertain about it, not to get to the ultimate bottom of things at once, to leave some for later.

We venerate function and life's everyday routine. But what really fills us with awe is a set of functional necessities that sublimates into a human institution. Hence designing rituals is what we like
the most.

We are attentive to context. We give heed to ancestors, we revere nature, we search for links and clues to know things as they are. Architecture may dissolve in the context, become invisible.
We appreciate being invisible. We appeciate changing the surroundings completely as well. It depends.

We like a client to be our fellow traveller. Sometimes our clients become our friends. Sometimes our friends become our clients.
We prefer human relations, not professional ones. And sometimes we need no clients at all. Just do what we like.

BUREAU partners:

Sergey Aksenov - founding partner, architect
Born in 1981 in Leningrad. Graduated Saint-Petersburg Academy
of Fine Arts in 2006. Laureate for Saint-Petersburg State Goverment Prize for Culture and Art 2013. Laureate for World Architecture Festival 2015. Laureate for Russian State Goverment Prize for Culture 2015.

George Snezhkin - founding partner, architect
Born in 1983 in Leningrad. Graduated Saint-Petersburg Academy
of Fine Arts in 2006. Member of the Russian Union of Architects. Vice-president of Saint-Petersburg Union of Architects. Member
of City planning consul of Saint-Petersburg. Laureate for Saint-Petersburg State Goverment Prize for Culture and Art 2013, 2023, 2024. Laureate for World Architecture Festival 2015. Laureate
for Russian State Goverment Prize for Culture 2015. Senior professor at Saint-Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts. MAAM proffesor. Curator of ARCHITECTON architectural festival.

Ilya Spiridonov - founding partner, architect
Born in 1983 in Leningrad. Graduated Saint-Petersburg Academy
of Fine Arts in 2007. Laureate for Saint-Petersburg State Goverment Prize for Culture and Art 2023. Visiting professor at Saint-Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts.

Lisa Malushina - associate partner, architect
Born in 1999 in Saint-Petersburg. Graduated Saint-Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts in 2022. Associate partner since 2024.

TEAM:

Ola Beznosova - senior architect
Born in 1978 in Kazan. Graduated Saint-Petersburg Academy
of Fine Arts in 2004.

Serafima Vershinina - director
Born in 1999 in Ekaterinburg. Graduated Saint-Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts in 2024.

Ilya Grigoriev - senior architect
Born in 1983 in Leningrad. Graduated Saint-Petersburg Academy
of Fine Arts in 2006.

Lali Razmadze - architect
Born in 2000 in Vitebsk. Graduated Saint-Petersburg Academy
of Fine Arts in 2024. Laureate for ARCHITECTON + LOCUS 2025 best diploma project award.

Rimma Silina - architect
Born in 1998 in Old Oskol. Graduated Saint-Petersburg Academy
of Fine Arts in 2022.












Architectural bureau CHVOYA
191014 Russia, Saint-Petersburg, Grodnensky lane 3
+7 (812) 963 32 38

chvoya@gmail.com