Ruo Jia

Ruo Jia is an architect/artist/theorist/historian/educator based in New York City. She is the founder and director of the research-based practice IfWorks, exploring art/architecture possibilities individually or collectively. Ruo is currently a Visiting Critic at Cornell's College of Architecture, Art, and Planning and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute, she has also taught at Harvard, CUNY, Columbia, and Princeton University. Her research focuses on constructing a decolonizing postmodernist materialist space through the interweaving of "Chinese Experimental Architecture" and "French Poststructuralist Theory," which expands to envisioning the possibilities of Asian Feminist Architecture, and Posthumanist Sustainability.

Classes (Selected)

• Yeah, They Were All Yellow: Asian Feminist Architectural Possibilities