#11. Form of Things 

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      The Conference

     On December 3rd, 2025, Kersten Geers and Bas Princen came to Bucharest to each deliver a lecture as part of Mazzocchioo.Talks #11. The event followed a year of preparations, online discussions, interviews, and close study of their work and research. The focus of this year’s edition revolved around two levels: project and built reality—as Bas Princen has documented through photography over more than two decades of OFFICE’s work; and project and theory—as Kersten Geers has been one of the initiators of the architectural magazine San Rocco.

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      A Brief Genealogy

     Kersten Geers and David Van Severen have been OFFICE since 2002. They met back in the 1990s at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, where they attended classes taught by Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros—an important part of their cultural genealogy. In the early 2000s, they met Bas Princen, who would later photograph The Notary, their first completed project, following a humorous promise that he would document all their future work. In 2010, Innocence, issue zero of San Rocco, was published. The magazine emerged from the shared interests and friendships of a generation of architects who met during that same decade: Matteo Ghidoni, Matteo Costanzo, Kersten Geers, Francesca Pellicciari, Giovanni Piovene, Giovanna Silva, Pier Paolo Tamburelli, Andrea Zanderigo, Ludovico Centis, Michele Marchetti, Stefano Graziani, Paolo Carpi.

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      The Magazine

     Echoing the conference, Mazzocchioo #11 brings together these intertwined trajectories through the presence of Kersten Geers—architect, teacher, writer; Bas Princen—artist, photographer; and Matteo Ghidoni—San Rocco editor-in-chief, architect, teacher. Rather than presenting them in isolation, the talk traces the continuities and resonances that link their practices and friendships within a shared architectural culture—an evolving conversation that Mazzocchioo continues to cultivate.

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