Jan de Vylder graduated in Architecture from the University of Sint-Lucas in Ghent. He has been working independently since 2000, first sharing a studio with Trice Hofkens, then with Inge Vinck and Jo Taillieu, with whom he founded the studio Architecten de vylder vinck taillieu in 2010, which is active until 2019. In the same year, together with Inge Vink, he founded the studio Architecten jan de vylder inge vink. He has taught at the Sint-Lucas School for Architecture in Brussels, the TU in Delft, the EPFL in Lausanne and the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio. Since 2017, he has been a professor at the ETH in Zurich.

Belgian-born architect Inge Vink has been teaching at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture et de Paysage in Lille and the TU institute in Delft since 2011. She has received several awards, including the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale (2018), the Henry Van De Velde Prize (2018), and was shortlisted for the Mies Van Der Rohe Prize (2016) and the Schelling Architekturpreis Prize (2016).