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Kirchenbauten. Ein Archiv der Nachkriegsmoderne / Church Buildings. An Archive of Post-War Modernism
Die Architektur war nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg von Not, Mangelwirtschaft, Wiederaufbau und Bescheidenheit geprägt. Zugleich war sie gekennzeichnet von Wagnis, Aufbruch und Innovation. Viele der Architektinnen und Architekten jener Zeit leben heute nicht mehr. Ihre Archive sind oft schwer zugänglich und drohen, in Vergessenheit zu geraten. Piet Eckert und Wim Eckert von E2A Architekten haben es sich zum Ziel gesetzt, einige bedeutende Kirchen dieser Zeit zu erforschen, zu dokumentieren und so für die Nachwelt zu sichern. Ihre kritisch-analytische Auseinandersetzung ist neu, sie geht über eine kunsthistorische Bewertung hinaus und untersucht explizit die Wechselwirkung von Struktur und Raum. Dadurch werden auch Bezüge zu aktuellen Anforderungen an das Bauen sichtbar.
Architecture in Germany after World War II had to make a virtue out of necessity and modesty. After all, materials were sorely lacking during the days of reconstruction. At the same time, the designs with their sense of a new beginning stand out for their audacity and innovation. Many of the architects of that period are no longer alive, and archived materials are often difficult to access and at risk of being forgotten completely. Piet Eckert and Wim Eckert of E2A Architects have set out to research, document, and thus preserve for posterity some of the major post-war churches. Their critical-analytical methodology is new, going beyond an art historical appreciation and explicitly examining the interplay of building and place. In this way, the book also vividly highlights current challenges in architecture.
Mit Beitragen von /
With essays by
Franziska Ahrens
Eva H. Hepke
Kirsten E. Hollmann-Schröter
Kirchenbauten. Ein Archiv der Nachkriegsmoderne
Church Buildings. An Archive of Post-War Modernism
Erscheinungsdatum Mai 2026, Hrsg. Piet Eckert und Wim Eckert
Triest Verlag, Zürich
240 Seiten
Konzept und Buchgestaltung: Bucharchitektur \ Kathrin Schmuck @bucharchitektur
Verlag: Triest Verlag, Zürich @triestve
Diakonie Bethanien approaches adaptability through programmatic diversity within a single architectural framework. Palliative care, hotel, daycare, offices, restaurant, and conference spaces are brought together in one building, where different publics, rhythms, and forms of use coexist while remaining operationally distinct. A load-bearing facade and linear core establish a robust spatial framework that allows this complexity to unfold within a clear structural order. Adaptability here is not expressed as openness without form, but as the capacity of one building to absorb different lives, uses, and temporalities within a shared system.
BETHANIEN I DEACONRY BUILDING ZURICH I 2011–2017
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Image 1: Jon Naiman
Image 3, 4, 6, 11: Rasmus Norlander
Image 5: Pablo Casals Aguirre
Image 8: Michal Florence Schorro
Image 10: Georg Aerni
Kirchenbauten. Ein Archiv der Nachkriegsmoderne / Church Buildings. An Archive of Post-War Modernism
Die Architektur war nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg von Not, Mangelwirtschaft, Wiederaufbau und Bescheidenheit geprägt. Zugleich war sie gekennzeichnet von Wagnis, Aufbruch und Innovation. Viele der Architektinnen und Architekten jener Zeit leben heute nicht mehr. Ihre Archive sind oft schwer zugänglich und drohen, in Vergessenheit zu geraten. Piet Eckert und Wim Eckert von E2A Architekten haben es sich zum Ziel gesetzt, einige bedeutende Kirchen dieser Zeit zu erforschen, zu dokumentieren und so für die Nachwelt zu sichern. Ihre kritisch-analytische Auseinandersetzung ist neu, sie geht über eine kunsthistorische Bewertung hinaus und untersucht explizit die Wechselwirkung von Struktur und Raum. Dadurch werden auch Bezüge zu aktuellen Anforderungen an das Bauen sichtbar.
Architecture in Germany after World War II had to make a virtue out of necessity and modesty. After all, materials were sorely lacking during the days of reconstruction. At the same time, the designs with their sense of a new beginning stand out for their audacity and innovation. Many of the architects of that period are no longer alive, and archived materials are often difficult to access and at risk of being forgotten completely. Piet Eckert and Wim Eckert of E2A Architects have set out to research, document, and thus preserve for posterity some of the major post-war churches. Their critical-analytical methodology is new, going beyond an art historical appreciation and explicitly examining the interplay of building and place. In this way, the book also vividly highlights current challenges in architecture.
Mit Beitragen von /
With essays by
Franziska Ahrens
Eva H. Hepke
Kirsten E. Hollmann-Schröter
Kirchenbauten. Ein Archiv der Nachkriegsmoderne
Church Buildings. An Archive of Post-War Modernism
Erscheinungsdatum Mai 2026, Hrsg. Piet Eckert und Wim Eckert
Triest Verlag, Zürich
240 Seiten
Konzept und Buchgestaltung: Bucharchitektur \ Kathrin Schmuck @bucharchitektur
Verlag: Triest Verlag, Zürich @triestverlag
Kirchenbauten. Ein Archiv der Nachkriegsmoderne / Church Buildings. An Archive of Post-War Modernism
Die Architektur war nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg von Not, Mangelwirtschaft, Wiederaufbau und Bescheidenheit geprägt. Zugleich war sie gekennzeichnet von Wagnis, Aufbruch und Innovation. Viele der Architektinnen und Architekten jener Zeit leben heute nicht mehr. Ihre Archive sind oft schwer zugänglich und drohen, in Vergessenheit zu geraten. Piet Eckert und Wim Eckert von E2A Architekten haben es sich zum Ziel gesetzt, einige bedeutende Kirchen dieser Zeit zu erforschen, zu dokumentieren und so für die Nachwelt zu sichern. Ihre kritisch-analytische Auseinandersetzung ist neu, sie geht über eine kunsthistorische Bewertung hinaus und untersucht explizit die Wechselwirkung von Struktur und Raum. Dadurch werden auch Bezüge zu aktuellen Anforderungen an das Bauen sichtbar.
Architecture in Germany after World War II had to make a virtue out of necessity and modesty. After all, materials were sorely lacking during the days of reconstruction. At the same time, the designs with their sense of a new beginning stand out for their audacity and innovation. Many of the architects of that period are no longer alive, and archived materials are often difficult to access and at risk of being forgotten completely. Piet Eckert and Wim Eckert of E2A Architects have set out to research, document, and thus preserve for posterity some of the major post-war churches. Their critical-analytical methodology is new, going beyond an art historical appreciation and explicitly examining the interplay of building and place. In this way, the book also vividly highlights current challenges in architecture.
Mit Beitragen von /
With essays by
Franziska Ahrens
Eva H. Hepke
Kirsten E. Hollmann-Schröter
Kirchenbauten. Ein Archiv der Nachkriegsmoderne
Church Buildings. An Archive of Post-War Modernism
Erscheinungsdatum Mai 2026, Hrsg. Piet Eckert und Wim Eckert
Triest Verlag, Zürich
240 Seiten
Konzept und Buchgestaltung: Bucharchitektur \ Kathrin Schmuck
Verlag: Triest Verlag, Zürich @triestverlag
in.grid Berlin frames adaptability at the scale of the city. Conceived as an urban mosaic, the project replaces the logic of a closed block with a permeable field of differently sized buildings, green intermediate spaces, and new connections to the Spree. Its openness is not formal, but programmatic: typologies lose their fixed identity and gain the capacity to accommodate changing forms of work, production, and research. In this way, adaptability begins before the building itself — in an urban structure designed as filter, connector, and resilient framework for future transformation.
in.grid – OPEN INNOVATION SPACE BERLIN SPANDAU I 1ST PRIZE 2022
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#e2a_urban #e2a_competitions
#architecture #berlin #urban #urbanplanning #urbantransformation
Haus am Zoo transforms verticality into a public urban realm. Height becomes an instrument: to free the ground plane, to open the building to the city, and to extend civic space upward. Through its public "air floor" — reinterpreting a defining spatial idea of the neighboring Bikini-Haus — and its structural clarity, the project establishes verticality as civic presence and urban continuity within the larger city fabric.
E2A - HUTHMACHER-HAUS I BERLIN, GERMANY I 2018
Image 1: @filippobolognese.images
Image 5-6, 10: @studiomiskeljin
Image 9: Jon Naiman
#e2a #e2a_icons #e2a_archive #e2a_public #e2a_urban #e2a_office
#architecture #berlin #bikinihaus #publicspace #verticalpublicspace
Diagnostic and laboratory buildings are no longer sealed containers of technical performance alone. Contemporary research depends on architectures that move beyond isolation and technical enclosure, giving spatial form to exchange, collaboration and long-term adaptability. E2A translates these conditions into the winning proposal for NORD 3, a new central building for diagnostic and laboratory medicine at the University Hospital Zurich.
Developed from the topographic condition of the site, NORD 3 reinterprets the landscape cascade, the building and the surrounding open space as one continuous campus system. The cascading stair becomes address, connective spine and vertical framework, while the building is conceived as a platform for research, collaboration and long-term adaptability. Its spatial organization is shaped by both system and context: by the internal logic of diagnostic and laboratory infrastructure as much as by the larger topographic logic of the campus.
A wide-span hybrid structural skeleton establishes the project’s spatial and technical framework. Material and construction are developed as a resource strategy shaped by prefabrication, hybrid systems, reduced CO2 emissions through recycled aggregates and low-energy cement mixes, and design for disassembly. This logic extends into the open space, where the landscape is developed as part of the cascading topography itself, integrating retention, infiltration, biodiversity and cooling into the project’s sequence of access, movement and use.
The project establishes an architecture for research that supports scientific work, collective exchange and ongoing transformation over time, without reducing the building to a fixed technical object.
USZ NORD 3 I RESTRICTED COMPETITION 2026 - 1ST PRIZE I NEW CENTRAL BUILDING FOR DIAGNOSTIC AND LABORATORY MEDICINE I UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH
Images 1, 4, 6, 9-10: @ethandeclerk
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#USZ #healthcarearchitecture #campusarchitecture #sustainablearchitecture #hybridconstruction #sustainableconstruction #architecture #zurich
E2A works with structures that stay precise yet open — frameworks that let people shape how they live and work over time. Appropriation becomes the shared process through which architecture and life continually redefine one another.
Image 4: @zuendzuerich
Image 6: @yasutakakojima
Image 8: @ethandeclerk
#e2a #e2a_appropriation #e2a_discourse
Plan drawing of the Geistlich Areal, Schlieren, presented in the context of the exhibition Idea and Reality, curated by @michalskoda_studio at the Gallery of Contemporary Art and Architecture, České Budějovice, 2025.
Image 3: Jan Mahr
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#architecture #plan #thebeautyofplan #architecturalplan #architecturaldrawing
Following the receipt of the building permit, the project advances as a dense residential ensemble, where slender towers define its vertical expression. Their reduced spans and 16 cm slabs translate structural clarity into material efficiency, achieving a CO₂ reduction of approximately 40%. Roof landscapes operate as a sponge system, retaining and cascading rainwater while supporting biodiversity across all surfaces.
The arrangement of the buildings establishes continuity between surrounding open spaces and inner gardens, allowing the landscape to extend through the site. At its centre, a new urban ground (“Stadtparkett”) forms the spatial core, from which a sequence of connected outdoor spaces unfolds. The podium activates the ground level with arcades, foyers and publicly oriented uses, while its roof gardens provide collective outdoor spaces for residents.
HOCHHÄUSER ZURICH NORD I PROJECT/REALIZATION 2023–2029
Images 1, 5: @studioblomen
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#architecture #architektur #swissarchitecture
#slenderstructure #lowcarbon
At the Geistlich Areal in Schlieren, the question was not only how to introduce new housing, but how to build upon an industrial landscape that shaped the site for decades. The project begins with what is already there — its spatial grain, its working identity, its collective memory — and transforms it into a framework for new forms of living. The building’s modest, raw material expression echoes this heritage, continuing the site’s long-standing culture of work with a quiet precision.
The compact U-shaped volume opens toward the future park while forming a clear address at Geistlichplatz. Its perimeter is both protective and permeable — a boundary that shelters residents and, at the same time, participates in the public life of the emerging neighborhood. Former production edges become inhabited thresholds, where everyday routines gradually replace industrial activity.
In this slow layering of old and new, appropriation emerges through continuity: inherited character becomes the foundation for a renewed community, allowing the industrial past to remain legible as it transitions into a lived neighborhood.
APARTMENT BUILDING AT RIETPARK, GEISTLICH AREAL, SCHLIEREN–ZURICH I COMPETITION 2015, 1ST PRIZE I PROJECT 2017–2018 I EXECUTION 2018–2020
Images 1, 4: Jon Naiman
Images 2, 3: @rasmus.norlander
Videos 5, 10: @zuendzuerich
Images 6, 7, 9: @geraldinerecker
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