Ruy Klein is directed by David Ruy and Karel Klein. Since 2000, Ruy

Klein has been focused on the changing nature of architecture relative

to three important historical events: the movement towards the

digitization and virtualization of everything possible, culminating now

with the AI revolution; the emergence of international finance and the

unanticipated effects of the giant pool of capital that flows through the

world; a global awareness of ecological peril and the growing

obsolescence of a modernist concept of nature. In short, our intuition

from the beginning has been that somewhere between the computer,

the bank, and the forest might be a new architecture. During these

years, we have seen the complete digitalization of how the architect

works. We have seen the erosion of established service-oriented

business models, but also (the still unappreciated) emergence of

strange new ways of financializing architecture. Though we have seen

some important research in the development of sustainable materials

and energy, nature oddly remains, for most, nothing more than that

thing we stare at through the windows of our buildings. Our projects,

essays, and design research have targeted disciplinary problems at

the confluence of these considerations and asks what it means to be

an architect in the twenty-first century.

We are currently investigating the possibilities (and dangers) of

generative AI and synthetic concepts of ecological design.