DATUM:KL 2018 : PIET ECKERT - E2A

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by Piet Eckert - E2A, Zurich
bio
Piet Eckert was born in 1968 in Mumbai (Bombay). Following his studies at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture in New York and the ETH Zurich (Diploma 1994 at the ETH Zurich) he collaborated at OMA Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam from 1995 to 1997. He has been working as an independent architect since 1997 and founded E2A with Wim Eckert in 2001.
Piet Eckert regularly gives lectures and workshops at various Universities and Institutes. He was a visiting professor at the Delft University of Technology and faculty member at the ETH Zurich. From 2009 to 2011, Piet Eckert was a visiting professor for Architecture and Sustainable Building at the HCU HafenCity University of Hamburg. From 2014 -2017, Piet Eckert was guest professor at the USI - Università dell Svizzera Italiana at Mendrisio.
E2A profile
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.
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