Kristoffel Boghaert (b. 1965, Aalst) studied architecture at St Luke's Higher Institute of Architecture in Ghent and then sculpture at the Ecole des Arts Plastiques in Mons.
He spent some time working for Christian Kieckens Architects in Aalst, where he was project manager for 'Interieur 96' in Kortrijk, Sanderus printers in Oudenaarde (1998) and the KUB student centre in Tilburg (1998). In the meantime he also worked for the Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza and the French architect Jean Nouvel. From 1998 he worked as a project architect for Robbrecht & Daem in Ghent, where he was responsible for the extension of the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam, the Houthavens housing project in Amsterdam and the Whitechapel project in London.
In 2002 he built the first project under his own name, a studio for the sculptor Philip van Isacker in Ghent, which was included in the 'Flanders Architectural Yearbook 02-03'. In that same year he made a memorial stone in Kruibeke. He is currently converting a country house for bed & breakfast use in Anseroeul (Belgium) and a prayer room at the Catharina Clinic in Eindhoven.
His own projects are both complex and restrained. He is able to give spaces a specific sculptural quality on the basis of enriching analyses, sober changes and an unadulterated use of materials. The fourth in this open series shows Kristoffel Boghaert's thinking on space by means of an architectural intervention focusing on the black monolith, and a recorded conversation with Caroline Goossens.