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Besides, History: Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen

29 JUN 2018

The exhibition BESIDES, HISTORY - GO HASEGAWA, KERSTEN GEERS, DAVID VAN SEVEREN proposes a three-party conversation: It involves Go Hasegawa & Associates, based in Tokyo; OFFICE Kersten Geers and David Van Severen based in Brussels; and the history of architecture.

This conversation is at the core of one of the most interesting debates in contemporary architectural practice and examines the role of the history of architecture - from recent to more distant pasts – in the work of a new generation of architects.

Kersten Geers, David Van Severen and Go Hasegawa belong to a generation of architects born in the second half of the 1970s who has been developing not only a consistent series of projects and works, but also maintains a clear theoretical stance. Their voices are very present and are becoming strongly influential in the broader conversation that takes place within the discipline of architecture in this second decade of the twenty-first century.

While the exhibition on show presents the inital conversation in spatial form, this event will literally continue the conversation with the presentation of new work and the addition of new voices in a different context.

This exhibition is organized by the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) and curated by Giovanna Borasi, Chief Curator at the CCA. Curatorial adaptation by Carles Muro, Adjunct Curator for Architecture Programmes at the Serralves Museum.

LocationSerralves Auditorium
Schedule18h30 - 20h00
Days29 JUN 2018

Go Hasegawa (Saitama, Japan, 1977)
Kersten Geers (Ghent, Belgium, 1975)
David van Severen (Ghent, Belgium, 1978)
Giovanna Borasi (Milan, Italy, 1971)
Carles Muro (Barcelona, 1964)

Go Hasegawa graduated with a Master of Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2002, after which he worked at Taira Nishizawa Architects before establishing Go Hasegawa & Associates in 2005. In 2015, he received his PhD in Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He has been a visiting professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and, more recently, was Design Critic at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. He has received a number of awards, including the 2008 Shinkenchiku Prize and the 2014 AR Design Vanguard.

Kersten Geers graduated in Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Ghent and at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura in Madrid (ETSAM). He worked with Maxwan Architects and with Neutelings Riedijk Architects in Rotterdam. He taught at University of Ghent and was visiting professor at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Columbia University in New York and, more recently, at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. He is currently teaching at the EPFL in Lausanne. He is a founding member and editor of the architecture magazine San Rocco.

In 2002 Kersten Geers and David Van Severen founded OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen. In 2008 they were awarded with the Belgian Prize for Architecture and in 2010 with the Silver Lion at the 12th Venice Biennial of Architecture.

David Van Severen graduated in Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Ghent and at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura in Madrid (ETSAM). Since 1995 he designed and made several objects, installations and furniture. He worked with Stéphane Beel Architects, Xaveer De Geyter Architects and for Atelier Maarten Van Severen. He was a teacher and guest critic at the Academy of Amsterdam, the TU Delft, the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, the Architecture School in Versailles, and at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.

Giovanna Borasi is an architect, editor and writer and Chief Curator at the Canadian Centre for Architecture since 2014. She was Deputy Editor in Chief for Abitare (2011-2013) and editor and writer for Lotus International (1998-2005). She has curated several exhibitions and edited publications focusing on how environmental and social issues influence today’s urbanism and architecture, including: Environment: Approaches for Tomorrow (2006), Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo (2008), Journeys: How Travelling Fruit, Ideas and Buildings Rearrange our Environment (2010) and The Other Architect (2015). More recently, she curated the exhibition Besides, History: Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen (2017) and was editor of the accompanying catalogue.

Carles Muro, architect and educator, studied architecture at the ETSABarcelona, where he graduated in 1991. He worked with Elías Torres and José A. Martínez Lapeña in Barcelona (1987-1991) and Álvaro Siza in Porto (1992-1993) before setting up in private practice in 1993. He was Unit Master at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (London, 1996-1998) and Director of the Masters Programme "Arquitectura: Crítica y Proyecto” at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Barcelona, 1998-2002). He has taught at the ETSABarcelona (1993-2015) and is currently an Associate Professor of Architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and the first Curator of Architecture of the Serralves Museum in Porto.

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