Ruo Jia is an architect/artist/theorist/historian/educator.

She is the founder and director of the research-based practice IfWorks, exploring art/architecture possibilities individually Or collectively. Her research focuses on constructing a decolonizing postmodern materialist space through the interweaving of “Chinese Experimental Architecture” Or “French Poststructuralist Theory,” 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 among others.

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. Formerly a tenure-track Assistant Professor in History and Theory of Architecture at the School of Architecture and affiliated faculty at Gender Studies Program at Mississippi State University, she has also taught at Pratt, Cornell, Harvard, CUNY, Columbia, and Princeton.

贾若是一名建筑 / 艺术 / 理论 / 历史 / 教育工作者。

她主持研究主导的实践“IfWorks”，作为个人或集体地去探索建筑艺术可能性。她的研究重点通过交织中国实验建筑与法国后结构主义理论建构一种去殖民的后现代唯物主义空间，并延伸到亚洲女性主义建筑和后人类主义可持续可能性的设想。她的作品已发表在The Journal of Architecture, Representations, Log, Brooklyn Rail, Journal of Architectural Education 及其他平台上。

普林斯顿大学建筑历史与理论方向哲学博士，并获跨专业人文科学证书“媒体与现代性”，哈佛大学建筑学硕士，东南大学建筑学硕士及学士。前任密西西比州立大学建筑学院建筑历史与理论助理教授及性别研究项目相关教员，她也曾在普拉特学院，康奈尔大学，哈佛大学，纽约城市大学，哥伦比亚大学以及普林斯顿大学教学。