Check out the postcard leporello from the Latvian Pavilion at the Architecture Biennial in Venice 2025, curated by Ilka Ruby and Liene Jakobsone. It collects photographs by Reinis Hofmanis from the so-called “Borderland” – a two kilometer wide strip along the Latvian border to Russia and Belarus. After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, this territory can now only be entered with a special permit. The photos document the encounter between nature, military presence and everyday life on the outermost edge of Europe and give an insight into a landscape that is now part of the new reality of European border politics.

The exhibition "Never Demolish", curated by Ilka Ruby and Andreas Ruby is presented in the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona from Nov 26th to Dec 16th 2021. The installation features the spectacular transformation of 530 dwellings across three high-rise buildings of the Cité du Grand Parc in Bordeaux, for which the architects Lacaton & Vassal, Frédéric Druot, and Christophe Hutin received the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award in 2019.

Dear friends, architecture and book lovers, an eventful year draws to a close and we close the office until Jan 6th. Emails and orders will only processed sporadically. 2020 we are entering a crucial decade for our planet, let’s stay engaged, let’s stay together. We wish you lovely holidays and a great start into the twenties!

I still remember the moment I first discovered Lacaton & Vassal’s work. I was flipping through a Spanish architecture magazine, when a photo of their first first project, Maison Latapie, made me gasp. Wow, I thought, this is a house? This can be architecture!? I was shocked, and fascinated. Never before I had seen anything like it: A volume totally enclosed in corrugated fiber cement panels, behind a squiggly filigreed-metal fence. The refusal of any formal expression, a cheap material from a DIY store. And then this ornamental fence, which had obviously been there before! Was this meant as...

The exhibition was curated by Ilka & andreas Ruby and swiss architects EM2N. It was shown at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein and the CID Grand Hornu in Belgium before. For the Grassi Museum also 10 housing projects from Leipzig were included. Opening: Wednesday November 28th, 7 pm Exhibition: 29 Nov 2018 – 17 March 2019 Grassi Museum of Applied Art, Johannisplatz 5-11, 04103 Leipzig

We’re happy to announce the opening of the exhibition Together! The New Architecture of the Collective at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein! A major project nearly two years in the making, this ambitious exhibition curated by Ilka & Andreas Ruby together with EM2N aims to provide a comprehensive cross-section of a silent revolution in architecture: the return of the collective.

As part of the Copenhagen Architecture Festival 2017, the exhibition Never Demolish presented the spectacular transformation of 530 dwellings across three high-rise buildings of the Cité du Grand Parc in Bordeaux, France designed by the architectural offices of Lacaton & Vassal, Frédéric Druot and Christophe Hutin. The exhibition was staged at two different sites, the gallery SPACE10 in Copenhagen and the Gellerup Museum in Aarhus.

Communal living isn’t just something for punks and hippies anymore. That's the idea behind an upcoming exhibition, that we are curating together with EM2N at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, due to open in June 2017. We'd like your suggestions about exciting collective housing projects from the last few (and coming) years! With the chance to win a free copy of the exhibition catalog, too.

Dear friends, happy new year! And welcome to our new Ruby Press website, which brings together the publications and other Ruby–activities like curating exhibitions, writing, giving lectures etc. – basically the stuff you would have found on our textbild.com website, if we would have updated it more often. In addition to the projects and webshop section you now also find a blog where we will post all the things we find interesting. Please subscribe to our newsletter to stay updated with what we are doing. Since January 2016 Andreas Ruby is director of the Swiss Architecture Museum S AM...