Office was set up in 2002 by Kersten Geers and David Van Severen. Kersten Geers (b. Ghent, 1975) studied architecture at Ghent University and the Esquela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura at Madrid in Spain from 1994 to 1999. Since 1999 he has published various articles on architecture and fiction in several professional journals and until 2001 worked for Maxwan/Max.1 Architecten in Rotterdam. Since 2001 he has worked for Neutelings Riedijk Architects in Rotterdam and since 2003 has been a tutor and guest critic at the Berlage Institute, Amsterdam Academy, TU Delft, Arnhem Academy, Ghent University and La Cambre in Brussels. David Van Severen (b. Ghent, 1978) studied architecture at Ghent University and the Esquela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura at Madrid in Spain from 1996 to 2000. Until 2004 he worked for the architects Stéphane Beel and Xaveer De Geyter in Ghent and Brussels and from 1999 for Atelier Maarten Van Severen. Since 2004 he has been a tutor and guest critic at the Amsterdam Academy, TU Delft, Arnhem Academy, Ghent University and the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. In 2003 Geers and Van Severen completed their first joint building: a solicitor's office in Antwerp. They are currently working on a conversion for the photographer Dirk Braeckman in Ghent and the conversion of the entrance hall and cafeteria of Wiels, centre for contemporary art, in Brussels. In 2005 they opened the '35m³ young architecture' series in deSingel, which was also their first solo exhibition.