Sameer Kumar is the Founder of Techne, a building enclosure design and consulting firm based in New York. With over 23 years of experience in the field of architectural facades, Sameer’s accomplishments represent a consistent pursuit of design excellence through the balance of craft and environmental performance in a wide variety of material expressions on several prominent projects around the globe.

Sameer extends his contributions to the architecture profession through his academic engagement as visiting faculty member with Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania, as well as through active participation in various architectural conferences as speaker and panelist. Sameer is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He is a licensed architect in the State of New York. He holds degrees in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and CEPT University, Ahmedabad.

Ricardo is a Managing Partner at Techne with Over 10 years of experience in bioclimatic analysis, façade design, and advanced graphical representation of building envelopes.
Prior to joining Techne, Ricardo co-founded the Façade Studio based in Mexico City dedicated to solve façade projects focusing on energy efficiency, safety, affordability and design intent compliance of the façade.Ricardo studied Architecture at University of Colima, Mexico and as an Architect, he specialized in energy simulations to determine façade systems performance. He has led teams at The Façade Studio through the design and study of the facade for commercial, residential, retail and hospitality projects along Mexico working with interdisciplinary teams from Mexico and the US. Ricardo has taught courses at the ITC (Technological Institute of Construction) on the Specialty for Sustainability on Edification. At the University of Colima he taught the course of Architectural Representation, an has lectured conferences in different Universities across Mexico.

Managing Partner at Techne. Over 10 years of experience in bioclimatic analysis, façade design, and complex performance analysis of façade systems across building typologies.