In spite of multilayer and many-sided activity of A.V. Bokov, still his feeling for the geometry as an exclusive or sufficient characteristic of architecture is an enigma. During our lively talk, the types of his architectural activities – with the same enigmatic (though rather delusive) simplicity – have suddenly taken up the positions along the four sides of a symbolic square, which had somehow unexpectedly transformed into a spatial street block with laconic titles of the adjacent streets: Designing, Teaching, Politics, Cognition.

An interview with Andrey Bokov in an article by Konstantin Savkin “THE SPACE OF THE SQUARE”. For details see…

Andrey V. Bokov
General Director GUP MNIIP “Mosproject-4”

Andrey Vladimirovich Bokov, PhD on Architecture, Full Member of the Moscow Department of the International Academy of Architecture /MAAM/, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences /RAACS/, General Director of GUP MNIIP “Mosproject-4”, member of the European Culture Society, First Vice-president of the Union of Architects of Russia /UAR/, member of the Union of Artists of Russia, laureate of the RF State Prize in the field of Architecture, RF Honored Architect.
He is an author of more than a hundred town-planning and architectural projects. The realized projects are: Experimental Housing Block in Nizhny Novgorod, the Pavilion No. 4 at the All-Russian Exhibition Centre (VVTS), V.V. Mayakovsky Museum on Lubyanka Square, A.S. Pushkin Museum in Prechistenka Str., office buildings at Savinskaya Embankment, in Gilyarovsky Str. and Bolshoi Gnezdnikovsky Side-str., the “Locomotive” Football Stadium, Covered Skating Centre in Krylatskoye, the “Kaluzhsky” Trade Centre in Moscow, and a lot of others.
His 2 books and more than 50 articles are published in domestic and foreign periodicals. He was carrying out theoretical researches on the problems of urban environment planning and on development of Moscow social infrastructure. For 20 years he was working as a consultant and seminar leader in the Senezh Studio for Artistic Designing. He was a tutor in the Moscow Architectural Institute (MArchI) and seminar leader in the Moscow Surikov Art Institute as well as a supervisor of diploma works in MIIZ (now the State University on Land Development –GUZ).
More than 40 times he was awarded in Russian and international competitions.