Contrast & Cohesion — G8A Architects

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Housing developments, office blocks, recreation parks, high-tech research and production plants, or the ICRC’s visitor center: contrasting locations and conceptual cohesion in their designs are reflected in this first monograph on G8A Architects.

Founded in 2007, G8A Architects gained rapid renown for its projects in Switzerland. Drawn to new opportunities in Southeast Asia, founding partners Manuel Der Hagopian and Grégoire Du Pasquier soon expanded the firm’s operations to include an office in Vietnam’s capital city, Hanoi, where they now attract a range of commissions in a completely new environment. In 2010, upon winning the commission for a major public housing development in Singapore that set them amongst a new generation of designers for residential projects in the region, they also opened a branch in the booming city state.
The first book to document G8A Architects’ achievements to date, Contrast and Cohesion reflects the firm’s work in these starkly contrasting parts of the world. Featuring twenty-seven of the firm’s projects through drawings, photographs, plans, and descriptive texts, the book also brings together essays that expand on the different concerns and challenges that accompany the creation of architecture in Central Europe and Southeast Asia. Climatically, culturally, and economically, the rapidly growing cities of Southeast Asia are a world away, but Der Hagopian and Du Pasquier pursue a strategy of cohesion, which seeks to resolve the contrasts between East and West with resulting benefits for both. (Text © Park Books)

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Edited by G8A Architects. With texts and photographs by Patrick Bingham-Hall
1st edition, 2019
Hardback, 260 pages, 124 multicolor, 22 monochrome, and 8 b/w illustrations
20 × 27 cm
ISBN 978-3-03860-144-9

Awards

Most beautiful German Books 2019
Shortlisted by Stiftung Buchkunst