Kersten Geers

Kersten Geers is a visiting Professor at Columbia GSAPP. Geers’ work ranges from designing furniture to research in national master planning for Belgium.

In 2002 Geers and David Van Severen founded OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen in Brussels. OFFICE is renowned for its idiosyncratic architecture, in which realisations and theoretical projects stand side by side. The projects are direct, spatial and firmly rooted in architectural theory. The firm reduces architecture to its very essence and most original form: a limited set of basic geometric rules is used to create a framework within which life unfolds out in all its complexity.

Geers graduated in Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Ghent, Belgium and at the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura in Madrid, Spain. He is a founding member of the architecture magazine San Rocco.

He has worked with Maxwan Architects and Urbanists and with Neutelings Riedijk Architects in Rotterdam. Geers has taught at the University of Ghent, the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio and EPFL, Lausanne.