Ryan Ludwig is an NCARB certified licensed Architect, educator, and writer. He is the founding principal of Ludwig-ArchOffice (L-AO) a design and research practice focused on the intersection of architecture, ecology, and social equity in the built environment. He is interested in exploring alternative approaches to design capable of engendering co-productive relations between inhabitants and their surrounding eco-social contexts. Recent projects have dealt with the issues of eco-egalitarian suburban living, co-housing, abandoned infrastructure in the post-industrial city, affordable housing, and community resiliency. Ludwig holds the strong belief that, in the face of a rapidly transforming planet, architects must challenge status quo processes of development and take an active role in fostering change toward a more ecologically and socially equitable built environment.
Ludwig is also an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Roger Williams University and has previously held teaching positions at Syracuse SoA, SUNY Buffalo a+p and Cornell AAP. In 2018 Ludwig received a prestigious MacDowell fellowship; while in residence the following year he focused on writing the book Beyond Sustainable: Architecture’s Evolving Environments of Habitation published by Routledge (2021). The book reconceptualizes the relationship between human beings and the constructed environments of habitation they create living in the Anthropocene.
His work has also been supported by an Art Omi: Architecture Residency Fellowship (2021), Centrum Artist Residency (2018), DAAP Faculty Development Grant (2020 & 2021), the Pogue Wheeler DAAP Faculty Traveling Fellowship (2021) and he was an Enterprise, Rose Architectural Fellowship Finalist (2016). His writing and work have been published in international journals, publications, and websites. Before teaching full time and establishing his own practice he worked in a variety of diverse architectural offices such as MOS, Cannon Design, Blaze Makoid Architecture, and SPAN Architecture.
Ludwig holds a professional Bachelor’s degree from Cornell, AAP and a post-professional Master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.