E2A architecture : Piet Eckert & Wim Eckert / with texts by Piet Eckert ... [et al. ; edited by Piet Eckert, Wim Eckert].

Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, 2011.

479 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 26 cm

This book presents the first comprehensive monograph on the Swiss architects E2A. Brothers Piet and Wim Eckert consider their work an interpretation of contemporary living conditions. In today's context, expectations, experiences, and ambitions characterize places and dynamically collide with reality. The disparate becomes the program of the discipline of architecture which, in their work, becomes a persistent journey of discovery that explores and exposes associations and relationships. Here, one experiences a fine line between dream and reality which could be described as a systematic incoherence. Thus, rather than designing the perfect machine for an idealized image of society, E2A integrates varied and diametrical terms and conditions that were once mutually exclusive. Projects, ideas, essays, and notes supplement built projects and record positions, assessments, and ongoing questions. It is in this way that we become accomplices in the intense debate about the city and architecture.

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Eckert, Piet, 1968-
Eckert, Wim, 1969-
Eckert Eckert Architekten.
Architectural firms Switzerland Zurich.
Architecture Switzerland History 21st century Designs and plans.
Agences d'architecture Suisse Zurich.
Architecture Suisse Histoire 21e siècle Dessins et plans.
Architectural firms
Architecture
Switzerland
Switzerland Zurich

Architectural drawings
History

Eckert, Piet, 1968-
Eckert, Wim, 1969-

Location: Library main 278485
Call No.: BIB 214052
Status: Available