For decades, we’ve been told that climate-friendly architecture means reducing the energy used to run buildings. But in reality, that problem can be solved by switching to renewable power. The materials used in construction, by contrast, are a bigger challenge as manufacturing them typically creates emissions, and they are often made from raw materials that are finite. Truly climate-friendly architecture, then, means shifting to materials that produce zero emissions, use no fossil fuels, and create no waste. This book tells you how to start.

Last October Marc Angélil, with whom we had the pleasure to work together on over a dozen books, gave his farewell lecture at ETH Zurich together with the opening of his impressive exhibition „Terrestrial Tales: 100+ Takes on Earth“. We are happy that the accompanying publication by Marc Angélil and Cary Siress is now available in our webshop.

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!

Together with 24 other books Atlas of the Copenhagens by Deane Simpson, Kathrin Susanna Gimmel, Anders Lonka, Marc Jay, Joost Grootenswas awarded one of the most beautiful German books by the Stiftung Buchkunst. The jury report reads as follows: "Copenhagen is considered one of the most sustainable, livable and bicycle-friendly cities in the world. In critical essays, quotations and more than 400 maps, graphics, diagrams and photos, this volume searches for the basis for the repeatedly positive ranking.

Happy to announce that „Atlas of the Copenhagens“ edited by Deane Simpson, Kathrin Susanna Gimmel, Anders Lonka, Marc Jay, and Joost Grootens, Berlin, Ruby Press, was awarded one of the most beautiful books of Germany 2019.

Just in time for Christmas we are happy to announce three new releases: Mirroring Effects. Tales of Territory by Marc Angélil and Cary Siress, Ländliche Verheissung by Mathias Burke, Eleonore Harmel, Leon Jank, and Sabeth Kerkhoff, and Addis Ababa. A Manifesto on African Progress by Dirk E. Hebel, Felix Heisel, Marta H. Wisniewska, Sophie Nash.

Our publication 51N4E Skanderbeg Square Tirana won the International DAM Architecture Book Award 2018 and The Atlas of the Copenhagens got shortlisted. The prize, that was awarded the 10th time, honors the best architectural books in a year based on criteria such as design, content, quality of material and finishing, innovation, and topicality. This year there were 238 entries from 96 architectural and art book publishers from all over the world out of which ten books got awarded and another ten got shortlisted.

Please join us for a discussion with editors Christine Bock, Ulrich Pappenberger and Jörg Stollmann and authors Nishat Awan, Ulrike Hamann & Sandy Kaltenborn, Yamil Hasbun Chavarría, moderated by Mathias Heyden. Wednesday July 4th, 20:30-22:30, Pro qm book store, Almstadtstraße 48-50, 10119 Berlin (in English).

Ruby Press, Esther Schipper Gallery, and Vice Versa Artbooks invite you to the launch of SKANDERBEG SQUARE. The transformation of the square in Tirana is the result of a collaboration between Belgian architecture office 51N4E, Albanian artist Anri Sala, Belgian environmental designers Plant en Houtgoed, and Albanian company for project implementation iRI. Join the conversation between Anri Sala and Freek Persyn from 51N4E: Thursday, June 28th, 6-8 pm at gallery Esther Schipper, Potsdamer Str. 81E, Berlin.

Skanderbeg Square in Tirana, Albania, has won the European Prize for Urban Public Space, a biennial competition honoring projects that create, recover, and improve plazas and squares in European cities. The project was selected from among 279 candidates in 32 countries.

We are happy to publish the second book on housing in and around Africa's biggest cities Cairo. With Cairo Desert Cities the editors of the award winning publication Housing Cairo, Marc Angélil and Charlotte Malterre Barthes, in collaboration with Something Fantastic and Cluster, this time focus on the new towns, that were developed in the desert around Cairo since the 1950s, many of them never completed.

We are happy that the authors of our first "Architecture Monogram" issue, Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Vaerenbergh, founder of Gijs Van Vaerenbergh, were awarded the Flemish Culture Prize in the category Architecture/Design. Congrats!

Our Realities: United Featuring book was featured in the Temporary Library on digital culture during the transmediale festival in Berlin as one of 200 selected publications.

We’re delighted to follow up our previous post to announce that the National Urban Design Awards 2017 took place in central London on March 2 where it was announced that the winner of Book Award category was Ruby Press for Housing Cairo: The Informal Response.

We are very happy to announce that Housing Cairo: The Informal Response by Marc Angélil and Charlotte Malterre-Barthes in collaboration with Something Fantastic and CLUSTER has been shortlisted for the Book Award at the 2017 National Urban Design Awards.

Another big box arrived at our office, inside: Giraffes, Telegraphs, and Hero of Alexandria – Urban Design by Narration , edited by Sabine Müller and Andreas Quednau from Berlin office SMAQ. With a poster showing a selection of the beautiful playful pneumatic inventions of Hero of Alexandria, Greek mathematician and engineer born in 10AD.

The third volume of the series revisits the ideas of the Polish architect Oskar Hansen (1922-2005) on “open forms,” or architectural forms that allow for completion through the user. Editors Rainer Hehl and Ludwig Engel this time look at Japan and ask what lessons the performative dimension of architecture prevalent in traditional and contemporary japanese architecture have for the modern Western architect? Check out Open Living Structures at our web shop.

This year is a good one for Ruby Press. First our Architecture Reading Aid Ahmedabad was awarded one of the most beautiful books in Germany by the Stiftung Buchkunst, and now Housing Cairo: The Informal Response, has been selected as one of ten books to receive the Architectural Book Award 2016.

Early this year Ruby Press published Housing Cairo: The Informal Response by Marc Angélil and Charlotte Malterre- Barthes in collaboration with Something Fantastic and CLUSTER, which explores the architecture of informality in the Egyptian capital. Since it was published, research from the book has been shown at Arc En Rêve-Centre d’Architecture in Bordeaux and the Venice Architecture Biennale. Now seems a fitting time then to reflect upon Housing Cairo and its investigations and world-architects.com have just published a review of the book.

Sep 8th 2016, Frankfurt Main. RUBY PRESS were at Die Schönesten Deutschen Bücher (Most Beautiful German Book) awards 2016, having been nominated for our Architecture Reading Aid Ahmedabad. The jury, which included publishers, production experts, designers and academics from the likes of Hatje Cantz, Gestalten, and Kohlibri, said of the book in their report, “This small, soft cover, perfect for your back pocket, has no fear of crumpled corners […] Masterpieces of modern architecture by Corbusier or Doshi are on an equal footing with temporary installations such as street temples and

Has watching the Olympics made you curious about Brazil and its architecture? Then be sure to check out the interview with longtime Ruby Press collaborators Marc Angélil and Rainer Hehl in the newest issue of the Swiss architecture magazine MODULØR.

We are very happy and proud that our architecture and city guide Architecture Reading Aid Ahmedabad was selected as one of the “Most Beautiful Books of Germany” by the Stiftung Buchkunst (foundation for book art).

The City as a Project edited by Pier Vittorio Aureli is one of the three best selling books at AA bookshop in London. Hooray! If you a curious which are the other two books, check out the article from YaleBooks

Two reviews of our Architecture Reading Aid Ahmedabad, one published in the Indian newspaper Mid-Day by Dhara Vora, another by Luise Rellensmann in the german baunetzwoche.