Ruo Jia is an architect/theorist/historian, founder and director of the research-based practice IfWorks, exploring art/architecture possibilities individually Or collectively.

She is the author of Chinese Experimental Architecture Or French Poststructuralist Theory (2026), interweaving a decolonizing postmodern materialist space, which expands to envisioning the possibilities of Asian Feminist Architecture, and Posthumanist Sustainability. Her works have been published with The Journal of Architecture, Representations, Log, Brooklyn Rail, Journal of Architectural Education, arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians among others. She has guest edited the special publication series on “Asian Feminist Architectural Possibilities” in collaboration with e-flux Architecture.

She has a Ph.D. in Architectural History and Theory from Princeton University School of Architecture with an interdisciplinary humanities certificate from Media+Modernity, a M.Arch.II from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and a M.Arch. and a B.Arch. from Southeast University School of Architecture. She has also taught at Pratt, Cornell, Harvard, CUNY, Columbia, and Princeton among other places.