Ilka Ruby is a Berlin-based publisher and curator. Together with her partner Andreas Ruby, she founded textbild, an office for architectural communication, and Ruby Press, a publishing house with a focus on architecture, and other cultural practices engaged in the production of space. Ilka Ruby has realized a number of exhibitions, such as the exhibition “Druot, Lacaton & Vassal – Tour Bois le Prêtre” for the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt (2012); and Treasures in Disguise, the Pavilion representing Montenegro at the 14th Architecture Biennale in Venice (2014). She has taught at Cornell University, Berlin University of the Arts, and the Peter Behrens School of Architecture in Düsseldorf.
Andreas Ruby is an architecture critic, curator, moderator, teacher and publisher. He has taught architectural theory and design at Cornell University, ENSAPM Paris Malaquais, the Metropolis Program Barcelona and Umea School of Architecture among others. Aside from regularly contributing to selected international architecture magazines, he has published about 20 books on contemporary architecture.
In 2008 he co-founded together with Ilka Ruby the award-winning architecture publishing house Ruby Press. He has organized several international symposiums and exhibitions on architecture and design, such as the traveling exhibition “Druot, Lacaton & Vassal – Tour Bois le Prêtre” launched in 2012, the Montenegro Pavilion at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennial in 2014, and most recently “Together. The New Architecture of the Collective” at the Vitra Design Museum. Since 2016 he is the director of the SAM Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel.
Andreas Ruby is an architecture critic, curator, moderator, teacher and publisher. He has taught architectural theory and design at Cornell University, ENSAPM Paris Malaquais, the Metropolis Program Barcelona and Umea School of Architecture among others. Aside from regularly contributing to selected international architecture magazines, he has published about 20 books on contemporary architecture.
In 2008 he co-founded together with Ilka Ruby the award-winning architecture publishing house Ruby Press. He has organized several international symposiums and exhibitions on architecture and design, such as the traveling exhibition “Druot, Lacaton & Vassal – Tour Bois le Prêtre” launched in 2012, the Montenegro Pavilion at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennial in 2014, and most recently “Together. The New Architecture of the Collective” at the Vitra Design Museum. Since 2016 he is the director of the SAM Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel.
