With the clear line of their cartoonist compatriots, Kersten Geers and David Van Severen draw their buildings with bold shapes and precise spatial sequences, in an eagerness for the conceptual clarity that they also demonstrate in their writings and in their lectures. In this ambiguous position between practice and theory, their free-spirited handling of history, types, and programs comes naturally, but never at the cost of the pragmatism that comes with the profession: complexities and contradictions that come to the fore in a well-grounded manner of working which Arquitectura Viva presents through six projects – three public and three private – of basic but intense forms.