While study??ing archi??tec??ture in the late 1960s at the Uni??ver??sity of British Colum??bia, Kleyn was intro??duced to Rod??ney Gra??ham, Ian Wal??lace and other artists asso??ci??ated with the uni??ver??sity at the time, as well as becom??ing aware of the infor??ma??tion and land??scape ori??en??tated con??cep??tual art??works of the N.E. Thing Com??pany.