This event will be conducted in-person in the Frederick P. Rose Auditorium and through Zoom.

For in-person attendance, please register in advance here. 
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This conversation between OFFICE and A83 will focus on the three new volumes of OFFICE’s ongoing oeuvre catalogue — Four, Five & Six — and more generally, on writing about architecture, and making books on architecture, as an expanded field of the practice. This is an important part of OFFICE production, which operates under the monicker “Office Without Office” and positions their own projects in the broader context of architectural discourse. The new books are published by Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König and will be presented for the first time during this event. The book launch will follow on Friday, December 12th at A83, where the exhibition organised on the occasion of the three new volumes runs until Saturday, December 20th.

OFFICE is a Brussels-based architectural practice founded in 2002 by Kersten Geers (Ghent, 1975) and David Van Severen (Ghent, 1978). Established as a means of exploring the prospect of architecture within the contemporary culture and urban environment, OFFICE gained renown in the mid-2000s for its idiosyncratic visual language and theoretical projects that included Border Garden (2005), A Grammar for the City (2005) and Cité de Refuge (2007). OFFICE developed a discursive practice through early realised projects, starting from the transformation of a notary’s office entrance (2005) to the private house in Buggenhout (2012). OFFICE represented Belgium at the 2008 Venice Biennial, and received the Silver Lion two years later. OFFICE’s international scope expanded with the Pearling Path project in Bahrain, for which it received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2019, while its scale shifted with the recently built Swiss Radio and Television headquarters in Lausanne. Other notable projects include the Crematorium in Ostend (2021), Brewery in Brussels (2022), and the Flemish Radio and Television headquarters in Brussels and a satellite factory in Charleroi, currently under construction. This output has been documented in numerous publications, most notably in two El Croquis monographic issues (2016, 2024) and in six volumes of OFFICE's ongoing oeuvre catalogue (2017, 2025). Parallel to this practice, OFFICE directed design studios at various institutions, including Columbia University GSAPP, Yale School of Architecture, Harvard GSD, EPF Lausanne, and the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, where Kersten Geers is currently a Full Professor. This educational activity, publications, as well as the cultural production of the agency runs under the monicker Office Without Office.

The lecture will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Clara Syme and Owen Nichols. 

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.