Miles Gertler

Miles Gertler co-founded the design-research office Common Accounts with Igor Bragado in 2016. Their work examines the intersections of the body with spaces both online and IRL. They are recognized for their work in the design of death and the virtual afterlife, including Three Ordinary Funerals, a prototypical funeral home produced for the 2017 Seoul Biennial on Architecture and Urbanism, now in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Korea (MMCA).

Gertler has taught at Cornell AAP's New York City Studio and the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. He is represented as a visual artist by Corkin Gallery and is the recipient of the Suzanne K. Underwood Prize and the Henry Adams A.I.A. Certificate from Princeton University. He received an MArch from Princeton, and a Bachelor of Architectural Studies from the University of Waterloo.

His research and teaching investigates the spatial dimension of rituals, processions, self-design, and military urbanisms.

Gertler has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council.