Founding Partners
Lando De Keyzer (Eeklo, 1988)
Graduated in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of Ghent, Belgium.
He has worked with Stéphane Beel Architects and TAB architects
Richard Leung (Hong Kong, 1991)
Graduated from the Architectural Association in London, United Kingdom.
He has worked with Herzog & de Meuron, OMA, Dyvik Kahlen, and PES
in Switzerland, Hong Kong, London and Shanghai
Lorenz Adriaens (Ghent, 1988 - 2021)
Graduated in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of Ghent, Belgium
followed by a year at the Architectural Association in London.
He has worked with Dogma, L.U.S.T. & Dierendonckblancke architects
Biography
Generiek is an architectural office based in Belgium and Shanghai. It was founded in 2016 by Lorenz Adriaens, Lando de Keyzer and Richard Leung.
Recent commissions include a series of housing projects within the Flemish landscape. Generiek was selected as part of the Promising Young Architects programme at the Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam in 2019 and is one of 8 young Belgian practices featured in the 2020-21 ACROSS series held by Aplus architectural magazine.
Our projects adopt a generic grammar of typologies and techniques as a guiding framework to claim and create spaces out of specific sites and contexts. The office is interested in working along a range of scales, from furniture to urban and territorial planning. Theory and research forms a core aspect during our design process. This rigour of thought process is also practised by active engagement in academia through our constant involvement as critics and jurors at universities around the world.
Vision
The word generic is etymologically derived from the Latin word genus, meaning to arrange and classify. In a way, to establish a sense of order, to organise and to seek coherence and commonality among disparate entities (objects, spaces and people etc.).
Sharing similar etymological roots with genesis (of birth and formation), by a generic approach to appropriating space, only then can life lived within architecture truly exist and grow. It is with this approach that Generiek practices, by first understanding the forms of life lived in contemporary society, and translating these relationships into physical space.