Alumnus Andrew Georges wins in “Europan 18” competition

Andrew Georges (B. Arch, LAU, 2020), working as a team with Bettina Kagelmacher, Jorge Sánchez Bajo and Roman Schober, recently won Europan 18 competition for the site of St. Gallen (Switzerland) with their proposal “Die den Gletscher bewohnen.” Europan is one of the most significant competitions for emerging architects in Europe.

Die den Gletscher bewohnen is an encounter between architecture and reality, but also with the history of St. Gallen through the glacier, its influence on local architecture, the soil, the rocks, the fauna and flora, the relationship between the urban and the rural, the human interactions behind construction, the environment, the car, and shifting social dynamics. The project is not a dogmatic answer, but a set of reflections on a specific reality: the Ruckhalde area, at the edge of the city, where architecture listens to the ground, to time, and to the ways of living yet to come.