Autor: E2A Eckert Eckert Architekten

The brothers, Piet Eckert and Wim Eckert, both graduated from the ETH Zurich in 1994 and 1995. After their studies they joined OMA, working from 1994 to 1997 in Rotterdam, Los Angeles and Seoul. In 2001 Piet Eckert and Wim Eckert established E2A. Their work has been widely published including the comprehensive monograph E2A / Architecture in 2011 with Hatje Cantz, Silent Form in 2014 with Park Books and more recently the new monograph by 2G Magazine of Gustavo Gili Editors. Their work has expanded geographically and typologically with projects in the realm of the public, cultural, corporate, commercial and the housing sector. Their methodology of work confronts idealism with an inventory of realities. Out of this confrontation a sense of irony arises, a pleasure and a strategic contradiction to reassess an omnipresent burden of context and program. Desire and reality, narrative and analysis form an increasingly conflicted relationship. Therefore, E2A’s contributions do not necessarily adhere to a single vision of cohesion, but rather integrate discrepancies and disruptions with implicit organizational logic. Constraints are converted into architectural forms.