Tutor
School of Architecture and Design
Department of Architecture

architecture@rca.ac.uk

Tobias Klein is co-founder of Horhizon, an experimental architectural design platform, and is researching narrative design in digital environments as a tutor in the Royal College of Art. His work focuses on exploring the relation between poesis and techne in CAD/CAM technologies.

“The truth is that CAAD overcomes the dichotomy between technē (craftsmanship) and poiēsis (art). Although digitally driven, his work does not succumb to the pervasive allurement of ‘Parametric Digital Modernism’—the unspecified whitewash (actually grey) of 3D surfaces, the universal Sachlichkeit of algorithmic design techniques, and the mechanistic vision of input-output interactivity...” Dr Marjan Colletti on Tobias Klein’s work Synthetic Syncretism, 2006.

Tobias Klein Dip. Arch (Dist.), M. Arch (UCL) was born in 1979 in Bonn, Germany. He studied Architecture at the RWTH Aachen, Germany, the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria (master class of Wolf D. Prix), and finished his studies at the Bartlett School of Architecture. (Distinction in Design, Commendation RIBA Silver Medal 2006; Winner ARCH+ prize 2006)

He has worked as a design architect for Coop Himmelb(l)au in Vienna, he collaborated with Nigel Coates on various projects (Mixtacity, Venice Biennale 2008) and works as a consultant for several offices in London.

Klein has taught architecture at universities including London Southbank, Greenwich and Nottingham. He runs ADS1 at the Royal College of Art together with Roberto Bottazzi. He is also curating the International Open Architectural Lecture Series at the London Southbank University with Kenny Tsui, and is a Unit Master of the first-year programme at the Architectural Association.