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, collaborated with Nigel Coates on various projects (Mixtacity, Venice Biennale 2008) and works as a consultant for several offices in London.

In 2011 he Studio Tobias Klein, a practice, operating in the between of architecture, across the fields of art and installation, experimental design, interactivity and sculpture. The work maintains a fascination with the construct of space, while questioning the modern image of its understanding, instigating a re-positioning between embodiment, perception and projection. The works constantly evolve between static and dynamic models, shifting from objects to installations and design, prospecting new visual territories in the field of narrated embodied space. /// website

He is the Unit Master of the Diploma 1 Studio at the Architectural Association and runs a Mediastudies class at the AA. He has lectured and given workshops internationally (Madrid, Spain - Lund, Sweden - Berlin,Germany - TU Munich, Germany ...) and was an invited critic at Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture - Paris, Bartlett, Brighton University, Oxford Brookes, London Southbank, Greenwich and Nottingham to name but a few. In 2010-11 he was appointed a Guest Professor for Virtual Realities at the TU Innsbruck; Studio 3, Institute for experimental architecture.

His work is internationally exhibited (Royal Academy Summer Show 2006 - Winner of the student prize and 2009, 2010, 2011 ...), the Venice Biennale 2010, the ARAM Gallery and published in various books such as AD - Neoplasmatic Design (edited by Marcos Cruz), Digital Architecture Now (by Neil Spiller), Drawings (by Sir Peter Cook) and magazins - Architectural Review, Architectural Journal, BD, AD, Arch +,...///

His current research project and interest explores the human body as a new ecology of densities in which the dissolution of its anatomical boundaries allows rethinking and recreating it as a new physical/representational territory in constant flux and change. By using advanced medical visualisation techniques (MRI and CT as well as Voxel systems) as both method and tool to redesign the body with variable intensities of matter, the obsolete notion of a finite body is exposed in favour of new type of body-space that is, above all, a viscous gradient field of variable concentrations of mass and matter.

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