Generiek is an architectural practice founded by Lorenz Adriaens (1988), Lando De Keyzer (1988) and Richard Leung (1991). Adriaens met De Keyzer and Leung whilst studying at Ghent University and the Architectural Association in London respectively. Since 2016, they have been working from Ghent and London, Hong Kong or Shanghai, collaborating via the cloud and using shared screens. Corona avant la lettre.

The practice often takes a specific commission from an individual client as a starting point to explore a broader social issue. Their design research frequently focuses on forms of collective living in suburban neighbourhoods. For instance, a new-build project for a detached house in the affluent and wooded Sint-Martens-Latem, which was abandoned prematurely [GEN 14 – Forest Villa] to an ongoing theoretical investigation into the arrangement of multiple, generic villas around a communal courtyard garden or ‘inner forest’. By questioning the brief and the boundaries of the building plot, the architects stretch the limits of the individual housing dream in the parcelled-out landscape of Flanders, arriving at new typologies of collective living.