Kersten Geers

The Department of Architecture welcomes Kersten Geers for his lecture, "The Big House and the Large City." Ahead of the publication of three new volumes on OFFICE work, and an exhibition on the books that opens on September 25th at A83 in New York, Kersten Geers will present some of the recent projects that are featured in the books. These projects are gathered under the title of The Big House and the Large City, which expresses OFFICE’s interest in reaffirming the notion of publicness in contemporary urban sphere.

Kersten Geers is an architect, writer and educator. Together with David Van Severen he is a founding partner of the Brussels-based architecture firm OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen. OFFICE projects differ in scale and type, ranging from furniture to urban design. Recent projects currently under construction include Aerospacelab Megafactory in Charleroi, Belgium; Swiss Radio and Television building in Lausanne, Switzerland; and VRT Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. OFFICE has received numerous honors and awards, including the Belgian Prize for Architecture, the Silver Lion at the 12th Venice Biennial of Architecture, and Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Kersten Geers has been teaching at various institutions, such as Harvard GSD, Columbia University GSAPP, Yale School of Architecture and EPF Lausanne. He currently holds a professorship at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio. He was a founding member of the architecture magazine San Rocco. Some of his recent books are Without Content (2021), Excess of Architecture (2022), Experiments in Thickness (2023) and Exposing the World (2024). 

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