Rayne Laborde Ruiz
Associate Director • M.Arch (UCLA) • MURP (UCLA) • BA Independent Studies (NYU) • AS General Sciences (Navarro)
Rayne Laborde Ruiz is an architectural designer, urban planner, and interdisciplinary researcher. Across a portfolio of speculative and built work including museums, schools, community centers and affordable housing, her projects prioritize public engagement while raising questions of agency and spatial justice.
She graduated with distinction from UCLA (M.Arch I & MURP ‘21), where she held numerous fellowships and research positions in the schools of Architecture, Public Affairs, and Real Estate. Her experience spans policy research for the International Center for Transitional Justice and UCLA Luskin's Lewis Center, re-thinking planning through projects with Terreform ONE and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, designing with communities in partnership with HYC Architecture and Kounkuey Design Initiative, and editing publications for KoningEizenberg Architecture and POOL Magazine. Her writing, design, and photography have been showcased around the world in over a dozen publications and galleries, and locally, she has served on urban advocacy boards across Santa Monica and Los Angeles. She holds a Bachelor of Arts with a concentration in "Forming Urban Fabric: Architecture and Collective Memory in the City" from New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Laborde Ruiz is a member of the After Echo Park Lake Research Collective and the Hollywood Community Housing Corporation Board of Directors.