Carsten Gerhards studied Architecture at the Polytechnical University of Aachen and at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. Until 2000 he worked with David Chipperfield Architects in London and Berlin.

He founded his own studio in Berlin in 2001 and became Professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt in 2010. Andreas Glücker studied architecture at the Fachhochschule Biberach and at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin, worked for Günter Zamp Kelp (Düsseldorf), Augustin & Frank (Berlin), Heide von Beckerath Alberts (Berlin) and Rolf Heide Tim Heide (Hamburg/Berlin).

In 2000 he established the Gerhards Glücker Architekten studio.