Andreas & Ilka Ruby

Randhir Sahni (M.Arch. ‘71) established the Llewelyn-Davies Sahni Innovative Practices series as an annual lecture that offers a model of innovative approaches to practice for our students, underscoring that agility is not only necessary for survival in architecture, but will permit them to practice in the most liberating and innovative ways. The sixth LDS lecture presents Ruby Press, a publishing house specializing in architecture and urbanism, founded in 2008 by Ilka & Andreas Ruby, to harness new critical potentials in architectural publishing beyond the coffee table book. Trained as an architect and an architecture historian, respectively, Ilka Ruby and Andreas Ruby work simultaneously as critics, curators, moderators, publishers and teachers, they exercise their practice as “discourse engineers,” dedicated to communicating architecture beyond the usual suspects of the discipline to a broad audience. In addition to their intense publishing activities, they have released a number of curatorial projects and exhibitions, and have organized several international symposia on architecture and design. Andreas Ruby is director of the Swiss Architecture Museum S AM in Basel.