E2A Architects


E2A Architects is an Architecture firm based in Zürich, Switzerland. The office is led by Piet Eckert and Wim Eckert who founded E2A Architects in 2001.

Overview

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 1995 to 1997 in Rotterdam, Los Angeles and Seoul. In 2001 Piet and Wim established E2A Architects. They have taught at several schools and universities in Europe and have been Visiting Professors at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio since 2014. Their work has been widely published including the comprehensive monograph E2A 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.

Selected projects

Current and completed projects

Solo exhibitions