Jordan Geiger
In 2002, Jordan Geiger founded Ga-Ga, a praxis dedicated to time-based projects that vary in scale, program and duration but are architectural in nature. Ga-Ga experiments with work that is temporary, and working methods that are improvisational and collaborative. Projects often engage emergent and interconnected roles of embedded technologies and environmental behavior in the built environment today, considering a unity of architecture and interaction design and seeking a critical exploration of ubiquitous computing implications for architectural practice.
Ga-Ga has explored these issues in diverse forms, including installation, exhibition and gallery design, the design of tent structures and emergency shelter, trade show booths and showrooms, urban design and agricultural land use proposals; as well as historical research into 20th century fantasy architectures and experiments with deployable structures. The work has received recognition in the form of prizes and exhibition internationally.
Prior to directing Ga-Ga, Geiger worked in the offices of Michael Sorkin Studio in New York and Dominique Perrault in Berlin. He has also taught Architecture, Urban Design and advanced interdisciplinary studios and seminars at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, at UC Berkeley, and at the California College of the Arts.
Geiger has delivered talks and contributed to conferences and symposia, including the online “blast” forum at Documenta X (Kassel,1997), “New Cities New Media” (USC, 2003),“Philosophies of Architecture / Architectures of Philosophy”, (Leeds, 2004), UbiComp’s “ExUrban Noir” workshop (2006) and others. In 2008, he co-organized the “Vapor Symposium” at the California College of the Arts with Alison Sant, in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name that they co-curated at San Franicisco’s Southern Exposure.
Jordan Geiger holds a Master of Architecture from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley.
