Miles Gertler

Architecture, Research and Teaching.

Miles Gertler is an artist and co-director of Common Accounts, an office for architectural inquiry currently operating between Toronto and Madrid. His work in architecture, academia, and visual art examines self-design in virtual and material realms, documenting design intelligence that often goes unnoticed within the discipline, focusing on areas such as fitness, death, military logistics, and ritual.

He is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, at the University of Toronto’s Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. Gertler studied architecture at Princeton University and the University of Waterloo. In 2023, he was awarded the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers by the Architectural League of New York.

About

His work and writing have been featured in Perspecta, e-flux, 032c, PIN-UP, Arquitectura Viva, Canadian Architect, Frame, Neo2, El País, The Cornell Journal of Architecture, The Globe and Mail, The Architectural Review, and The Avery Review. Gertler has exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale, MMCA Seoul, the Seoul Museum of Art, Matadero Madrid, Art Jameel, Azkuna Zentroa, the Cube Design Museum, the Spanish Architecture Biennale, the Istanbul Design Biennial, the Seoul Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, MOCA Toronto, a83 gallery, and Corkin Gallery.
In 2023, he was a resident at Palazzo Monti in Brescia, Italy, and has served on the Board of Directors of Mercer Union, A Centre for Contemporary Art, since 2019.

Contact

123 Queen Street West, Toronto,
ON, M5H 2N2, Canada

Clients

Matadero Madrid
Plus Murs
Caballo Services
Elisava Uv.
Zurich University

2019
  • Master of Architecture (M.Arch) Advanced Standing
  • Princeton University School of Architecture
  • Honours Bachelor of Architectural Studies (B.AS) with
2020
  • Co-Chair of the Building Committee, Member of the Fundraising
  • Committee, Member of the Finance Committee
  • Honours Bachelor of Architectural Studies (B.AS) with Distinction University of Waterloo
An inquiry into the deep history and near future of death and architecture, looking at smoothness, distance, visibility, and value in dying at the scale of the everyday
The Death Report
Common Accounts, 2024

Madrid

A network of ceremonial and technological protocols to instrumentalize death as a pragmatic tool for city-building
Closer Each Day
Prototype, 2024

Princeton University 2016
Canadian Centre for Architecture 2022

A Multi-Domain Shrine for Remote Memorial
You are Well Liked in your Community
Installation, 2024

Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Art Museum of the University of Toronto

An interview with Antoni Miralda on rituals, parades and parties for PIN-UP Magazine
Honey Mooners
Research, 2024

Toronto

Don’t Let Me Be Lonely is a machine for the staging, contemplation, and cultivation of the bodies it hosts
Don´t let me be lonly
Private House, 2024

Canada

Strategic furniture that appropriates urban security barricades for ordinary uses to benefit the public commons
Paranoiacs Rest Easy
Furniture, 2024

Toronto

A Multi-Domain Shrine for Remote Memorial
The Self Around You
Essay, 2024

Justina M. Barnicke Gallery
Art Museum of the University of Toronto