27/04/2022
It was a pleasure to celebrate the launch of #SevenQuestions at ETH Zurich last night. Thanks to editors Jan de Vylder and Annamaria Prandi, designer Piet Bodyn, and all contributors for their input and inspiration.
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22/04/2022
Meet us at MISS READ!
swing by for a chat and flip through our books at the Berlin Art Book Fair MISS READ at HKW.
Friday April 29th 5-9 pm // Opening Party 9 pm
Saturday April 30th 12-7 pm
Sunday May 1st 12-7 pm
Free Entry
http://ruby-press.com/meet-us-at-miss-read/
22/04/2022
Solo exhibition by Gijs van Vaerenbergh, a collaborative practice founded in 2008 by Pieterjan Gijs (*1983) and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh (*1983) in Leuven, Belgium.
If you want to find out more about the studio and their approach, check out our #ArchitectureMonogram on their work, edited by Cathelijne Nuijsink. http://ruby-press.com/shop/architecture-monogram-1-gijs-van-vaerenbergh-cross-section/
21/04/2022
Join us for a gathering with books and drinks at ETH Zurich to celebrate the launch of "Seven Questions", edited by Jan de Vylder and Annamaria Prandi / ETH Studio Jan de Vylder.
Tuesday, April 26, 17:30
at ETH Hönggerberg, HIL Foyer
Have a look inside the book on our website http://ruby-press.com/shop/seven-questions/
02/04/2022
Check out our latest release: "Seven Questions", edited by Jan De Vylder, Annamaria Prandi / Studio Jan de Vylder.
The publication is the outcome of a series of online lunch lectures at ETH Zürich, organized by studio Jan de Vylder during the Corona lockdown. The briefing for the speakers was as simple as it was tricky: Talk about seven questions that you consider relevant without answering them. The results were as diverse as the contributors: 70 experts from architecture, design, history, theory, sociology, art, etc. gave an insight in the creative processes that drive their work.
With contributions by Tom Avermaete, Tatiana Bilbao, Petra Blaisse, Philippe Block, Lilitt Bollinger, Roger Boltshauser, Emanuel Christ, Irina Davidovici, Fredi Fischli, Joseph Grima, Nikolaus Hirsch, Bijoy Jain, Momoyo Kaijima, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Elli Mosayebi, Freek Persyn, Eva Prats, Alice Rawsthorn, Marianna Rentzou, Philip Ursprung, Christophe Van Gerrewey, Inge Vinck, Lori Waxman, and many more.
Available in our webshop and soon at your local book store
http://ruby-press.com/shop/seven-questions/
28/03/2022
Join the booklaunch in Sao Paulo:
Everyday Matters––Contemporary Approaches to Architecture, edited by Vanessa Grossman and Ciro Miguel, Ruby Press 2022.
With editors Vanessa Grossman and Ciro Miguel, Ester Carro, Sabrina Fontenelle, Francesco Perrotta-Bosch, Marco Rosa, and Renzo Taddei
25 April 2022, 6 pm, IAB Sao Paulo
22/03/2022
BK Talks: Disseminate: Present and future of editorial practice?
In case you missed the discussion at TU Delft on the present and future of editorial practice, it's available on youtube now.
With Merel Pit, Mark Minkjan, Carlo Menon, Enrique Encabo, Andrej Radman, and video statements by Iker Gil, Nuria Moliner, Ethel Baraona Pohl, and Ilka Ruby. Moderated by Tuyen Le and Alessandro Rognoni.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AxdIXi-Z2A
This BK Talks will discuss the present and future of editorial practices in design, bringing to the table a group of renowned professionals from the publishi...
10/03/2022
💥Best Book Design from all over the World💥
We are super happy that #MigrantMarseille has been awarded an Honorable Appreciation!
Thanks to all contributors, and especially to Something Fantastic, Charlotte Malterre Barthes and Marc Angélil.
Check out our website for more information on Migrant Marseille http://ruby-press.com/shop/migrant-marseille-architectures-of-social-segregation-and-urban-inclusivity/
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09/03/2022
💥FRESH FROM THE PRINT SHOP💥
"Everyday Matters", edited by Vanessa Grossman and Ciro Miguel. Photos by Ciro Miguel. Design by Something Fantastic.
Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley write in their foreword: "That which literally happens every day is so ever present, ever repeated, that it paradoxically goes unnoticed. The everyday is in this sense environmental, like water to fish––which is precisely what makes it so crucial to architects but also what torments them."
Featuring contributions by architectural designers, historians, and theoreticians, as well as scholars in fields such as cultural geography, environmental anthropology, political philosophy, and sociology, this book chronicles how the everyday has influenced contemporary approaches to architecture and urbanism, triggering the rise of a new ethics and aesthetics.
Contributions by Caitlin DeSilvey, Geisa Garibaldi (Concreto Rosa), Vanessa Grossman, Anna Heringer, Andrés Jaque (Office for Political Innovation), GuillermoLopez and Anna Puigjaner (MAIO), Charlotte Malterre Barthes, Markus Miessen (Studio Miessen), Ciro Miguel, Mouraria 53, DjamiaRibeiro, Renzo Taddei, Ilze Wolff and Heinrich Wolff (Wolff Architects)
You can order the book in our Ruby Press webshop (http://ruby-press.com/shop/everyday-matters-contemporary-approaches-to-architecture/) and soon at your local book store.
30/11/2021
Never Demolish -
"Never Demolish", curated by Ilka Ruby and Andreas Ruby at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion. Nov 26th – Dec 16th.
The exhibition on the transformation of 530 apartments in Cité du Gand Parc Bordeaux by Lacaton & Vassal, Frédéric Druot, and Christophe Hutin transforms the Barcelona Pavilion into a domestic space.
In a 1:1 installation the visitor can experience the effect of the extension of the living spaces through the addition of wintergardens in Cité du Grand Parc. Between Mies' famous Onyx wall and the glass facade of the Pavilion an almost 10-meter-long wall takes on the role of the sliding glass façade of the project in Bordeaux. The wall is printed with large photos that simulate from one side the view from the winter garden into the living room and from the other side the view from the living room into the wintergardens. The thermal and sunscreen curtains used in the project are also used in the installation. In addition, the room is equipped with furnitures and plants to give the impression of the domestic atmosphere. A film about the project provide visitors with important background information.
https://www.world-architects.com/en/architecture-news/found/never-demolish
Curators Ilka and Andreas Ruby have transformed the Barcelona Pavilion into a domestic space — a temporary version of the EU Mies Prize-winning...
07/10/2021
News
Jonas Tratz and Sebastian Felix Ernst, together with FAKT – Office for Architecture, are authors and editors of #BerlinMaps", published earlier this year.
They are also Villa Massimo fellows. Read the interview with FAKT by Anh Linh Ngo about their time in Rome: "Of Prostheses and the Coexistence of Architecture and Nature".
https://archplus.net/de/von-prothesen-und-der-koexistenz-von-architektur-und-natur/
Or check out "Berlin Maps"
http://ruby-press.com/shop/berlin-maps/
ARCH+ ist die führende diskursive Zeitschrift für Architektur und Urbanismus. ARCH+ untersucht vierteljährlich die kulturellen und politischen Rahmenbedingungen der Raumproduktion mit einer umfassenden, monothematischen Ausgabe.
07/10/2021
Gijs Van Vaerenbergh – interview: ‘We are always experimenting with the extremities of architecture, space, sculpture and form’
Check out this interview with the Belgium duo Gijs Van Vaerenbergh. And if you want to know more about them, have a look at issue #1 of Architecture Monogram, dedicated to their work: "Gijs Van Vaerenbergh, Cross Section", edited by Cathelijne Nuijsink, Ruby Press, Berlin, 2017.
The architecturally trained duo Arnout Van Vaerenbergh and Pieterjan Gijs talk about their collaborative practice, and how they seek to create new experiences for themselves and the visitor
06/10/2021
Comment vivrons-nous ensemble
"How will we live together?"
Talk with Anne Lacaton, Jean-Philippe Vassal, Frederic Druot, Christophe Hutin, and Anna Ramos, moderated by Ilka Ruby is now available online:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8tEpXJZ_iM
https://communautes-biennale.fr/project/comment-vivrons-nous-ensemble/
Rencontre débat avec Anne Lacaton, Jean-Philippe Vassal, Frédéric Druot, Christophe Hutin, 51N4E, De vylder vinck taillieu, Brandlhuber, Selgascano.
05/10/2021
The Curator's Selection | Architecture Book Fair
The #ArchitectureBookFair is live now! Check out books and events from Oct 5th-9th. We are happy that Ruby Press is participating in this project with three publications:
The Materials Book, edited by Ilka Ruby, Andreas Ruby;
Design in Dialogue. 51N4E, Endeavour, Denkstatt, edited by ETH Newrope;
Addis Ababa. A Manifesto on African Progress, Edited by Dirk E. Hebel, Felix Heisel, Marta H. Wisniewska, Sophie Nash.
A project by DPR-barcelona and Future Architecture. Curated by Chiara Dorbolò.
We live in a society where carelessness has become a distinctive feature of how architecture is practiced and experienced. However, many people fight in their
21/09/2021
NOW – Bauwende jetzt – Paris-konforme Wohnungs- und Baupolitik - Klimaforum Bau
Gerade #live: NOW – #Bauwende jetzt, ein Zusammenschluss aus nachhaltigen Bau- #Startups, fordert ein massives Umsteuern der deutschen Wohnungs- und Baupolitik. Die Initiative wird von @Architects4F, @DGNB_eV und vom @BDABund unterstützt.
https://klimaforum-bau.de/news/now-bauwende-jetzt-pressegespraech/
NOW - Bauwende jetzt, ein Zusammenschluss aus nachhaltigen Bau-Start-ups, fordert ein massives Umsteuern der deutschen Wohnungs- und Baupolitik. Am 21. September 2021 fand dazu ein Pressegespräch statt.
12/09/2021
"The Materials Book", edited by Ilka Ruby and Andreas Ruby at the Architecture Book Fair.
11/09/2021
Migrant Marseille | Future Achitecture Library
Check out our publications in the Future Architecture Library
At 9 AM on November 5, 2018, a pair of buildings in central Marseille collapsed, taking the lives of eight people hailing from Algeria, the Comoros, France, Italy, and Tunisia. This devastating toll of urban decay reflects both the diversity of the district and the hardship of living in Marseille, a...
08/07/2021
Rezension zu: M. Angélil u.a. (Hrsg.): Migrant Marseille
A thorough book review (in German) of our award winning title "Migrant Marseille" by Marc Angélil, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, and Something Fantastic.
By Daniel Hadwiger, Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung, Erkner, published on the online platform H-Soz-Kult.
https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-95119?language=de
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Rezension zu / Review of: Angélil, Marc; Malterre-Barthes, Charlotte; Something Fantastic: Migrant Marseille. Architectures of Social Segregation and Urban Inclusivity
15/06/2021
💙❤️ "Migrant Marseille" was awarded one of the most beautiful books in Germany by Stiftung Buchkunst. 🥂
Congrats to the editors Marc Angélil, Charlotte Malterre-Bartes and to Something Fantastic, who were also the designers with Fernanda Tellez Velasco. Congratulations also to all the other winners, we are very honored to be in such exquisite company.
http://ruby-press.com/award-for-migrant-marseille/
check out the jury statement here: https://www.stiftung-buchkunst.de/de/die-schoensten-deutschen-buecher/2021/alle-praemierten-2021.html?id=428
And all winners: https://www.stiftung-buchkunst.de/de/die-schoensten-deutschen-buecher/2021/alle-praemierten-2021.html
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12/06/2021
"The Materials Book" is available again!
2nd edition fresh from the printer.
Check out our website for more infos http://ruby-press.com/shop/the-materials-book-2/
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11/06/2021
NEW RELEASE: 2nd issue of the "Chapters" series
Design in Dialogue. 51N4E, endeavour, Denkstatt. Edited by Newrope ETH Zurich.
How can design processes be shaped through dialogue to give different actors the opportunity to add, remove or change something in an attempt to exceed the expectations of everyone involved?
The first part of the book investigates the work of Brussels-based architecture firm 51N4E and two design-focused consulting firms, endeavour from Antwerp and Denkstatt from Basel. All three companies explore the boundaries of architecture, advocating openness and dialogue with clients.
A second part of the publication examines the hidden presence of this “design in dialogue” approach in a wide range of European architecture firms and their projects—not as a new methodology to study, but as a liberating attitude to share, cherish, and develop.
With contributions by Harder Haas, Atelier Bow-Wow, Lacol, Studio Paola Viganò, Equip 10+1, Onkruid, Caruso St John Architects, and Communitism.
More on our website: http://ruby-press.com/shop/design-in-dialogue-51n4e-endeavour-denkstatt/
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Migrant Marseille
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Design: Something Fantastic Art Department with Fernanda Tellez Velasco
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Large-scale immigration has shaped the city of Marseille. This compact paperback explores the urbanistic causes for the uneasy coexistence between natives and migrants – while also pointing the way towards a more inclusive urban planning. It’s a handbook whose sober and pragmatic approach is matched by a similarly sober and pragmatic design. In a very good way. This compendium feels light even if the content is not. Format, volume, weight, great! The format defines the flow, an invitation to dive into the topic.
Thin pages bound by dispersion glue make it easy to handle, with the book falling open almost by itself, while precisely delineated isometric drawings offer overviews of the city’s sprawling housing projects. Here, one is reminded of the rigour of Le Corbusier’s vision of open spaces in dense cities, and of the way social realities have given such idealistic plans a very different face. The aesthetic of those realities is documented via uncommented street photography, the analytical texts being backed up by images from on-the-ground explorations.
A similarly unflinching approach can be seen in the typography. Almost unbelievably for a printed book, headings are in upper case Arial, a secretarial font the use of which requires both conviction and a feel for the subject matter. Further evidence of both can be seen in the typeface for the body matter: here the designers chose Life, a suitably lively derivative of the evergreen Times. There is nothing wrong with the decisions of type, not at all.
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‘NEVER DEMOLISH’ – Intervention at Mies van der Rohe Pavilion
The intervention “Never Demolish” was presented on November 26 at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion by the curators Ilka and Andreas Ruby (Ruby Press), from the transformation project of 530 dwellings in the Grand Parc Bordeaux by the architects Lacaton & Vassal architectes, Frédéric Druot Architecture and Christophe Hutin Architecture. The project won the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award in 2019.
Through this intervention, the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion is transformed into a domestic space inspired by the winning project of the last edition of the Prize. A transformation that deepens the debate on housing and how the Bordeaux project becomes a model for the social and physical rehabilitation of the housing blocks of the modern movement and its surroundings. An intervention aimed at and equally affecting the inhabitants, architects, urban planners, developers, heritage conservators and politicians.
Fundació Mies van der Rohe
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Nunca demoler por Ilka and Andreas Ruby
https://www.metalocus.es/es/noticias/nunca-demoler-por-ilka-and-andreas-ruby
Never Demolish by Ilka and Andreas Ruby
https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/never-demolish-ilka-and-andreas-ruby
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Migrant Marseille:
Architectures of Social Segregation and Urban Inclusivity
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Marc Angélil, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Julian Schubet, Elena Schütz, Leonard Streich (Hrsg.)
Mit Fotografien und Illustrationen von MAS Urban Design ETH-Zurich, Switzerland
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Gestaltung: Something Fantastic
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DIE SCHÖNSTEN DEUTSCHEN BÜCHER 2021
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Migrant Marseille:
Architectures of Social Segregation and Urban Inclusivity
Marc Angélil, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Julian Schubet, Elena Schütz, Leonard Streich (Hrsg.)
Ruby Press
Mit Fotografien und Illustrationen von MAS Urban and Territorial Design ETH-Zürich
Gestaltung: Something Fantastic
https://www.stiftung-buchkunst.de/de/die-schoensten-deutschen-buecher/2021/alle-praemierten-2021.html?id=428
Starke Migrationseinflüsse prägen die Stadt Marseille. Dort ist eine Studie im Taschenbuchformat den urbanistischen Gründen für ein problematisches Zusammenleben auf der Spur – und versteht sich gleichermaßen als Werkzeug für eine inklusive Stadtplanung. Der nüchterne und pragmatische Ansatz dieses Handbuchs wird ebenso nüchtern und pragmatisch in seine Form übersetzt.
Dünnes Papier erleichtert die Handhabung, weil mit Dispersionskleber gebunden. Das Buch öffnet sich wie von selbst. In glasklar gezeichneten Isometrien verschafft man sich einen Überblick über das Ausmaß von Großwohnsiedlungen. Dabei stellt man sich die Disziplin vor, mit der Le Corbusier noch von offenen Räumen in dichten Städten geträumt hat. Die soziale Realität hat sich in solchen Planungen jedenfalls auf andere Weise eingerichtet. Von der Ästhetik dieser Alltage berichtet die unkommentierte Street Photography, die die analytischen Texte mit Eindrücken von Ortserkundungen unterfüttert.
Ebenfalls frei von Berührungsangst zeigt sich die Mischung der Schriften. Überschriften stehen – man glaubt es kaum – im Versalsatz aus der Arial. Um diese Sekretariatsschrift für gedruckte Bücher einzusetzen, verlangt es nach Entscheidungsfreude ebenso sehr wie nach Einfühlungsvermögen für die Sache. Diese Vermutung bestätigt die Wahl der Type für den Grundtext. Es ist die Life, ein durchaus lebhaftes Derivat eines bewährten Evergreens: die Times.
Übrigens – das Buch duftet nach Drucksaal.