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 developing synthetic concepts of ecological design.