Chinese Experimental Architecture Or French Poststructuralist Theory

Writing

-Jia, Ruo. “Cloud as an Alternative Architecture.” Representations (2024 Spring): 117-142.

-Jia, Ruo. “Moving towards a Concrete Type through Collective Body Memory,” Transposed Memory: Visual Sites of National Recollection in the 20th and 21st century East Asia. Eds. Alison J. Miller and Eunyoung Park (Brill, 2024), 126-143.

-Jia, Ruo. “Cloud as Alternative Architecture.” 109th ACSA Conference Proceedings, 2023, 323-330, https://www.acsa-arch.org/chapter/cloud-as-an-alternative-architecture/.

-Jia, Ruo. “Different Shades of the Concrete: Chinese Experimental Architecture Or French Poststructuralist Theory,“ diss. Princeton University, May 2022.

-Jia, Ruo. “Riding the Reformative Wave of Postmodern Theory.” In Radical Pedagogy, edited by Beatriz Colomina, Ignacio G. Galan, Evangelos Kotsioris and Anna-Maria Meister, 150-152. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022.

-Jia, Ruo. “Concrete Material as Chinese Architectural Reformation.” Log 51 (2021): 145-152.

-Jia, Ruo. “Theory Backfires: Shu Wang’s Post-Structuralist Alternative and a Fictionalized China.” Pidgin 25 (April 2019): 140-165.

Talking

-“|,” Sam Fox School of Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis, 2024.

-“Cloud as Alternative Architecture,” Fudan University School of Philosophy, 2024.

-“A Broken Circle: Decolonizing Postmodernism,” Syracuse University NYC Public Lecture Series, 2023.

-“A Broken Circle: Decolonizing Postmodernism,” Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), 2023.

-“Riding the Reformative Wave of Postmodern Theory,” School of Architecture, Princeton University, 2022.

-“Cloud as Alternative Architecture: Blotting out Architecture,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) 109th Annual Conference, 2021.

-“From ‘Objective Architecture’ to ‘Earth and Wood,’” Media+ Modernity Doctoral Colloquium, Princeton University, 2021.

-“Concrete Material as Chinese Architectural Reformation,” 109th College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, 2021.

Making

-“Cultural Fever: Postmodern Effects in Sino-American Architecture,” seminar, Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), 2020.