Dr Ruth Lang is an architect, researcher, writer, and programme leader at the London School of Architecture.
Throughout Ruth’s work lies an interest in the networks and mechanisms we engage with in delivering architectural projects, and how we might practice differently in order to achieve a more equitable profession.
She holds a PhD from Newcastle University, which explored the hidden, overlooked, and obscured facets of the post-war work of the London County Council Architect’s Department. Adopting this strategy to a contemporary context, she has recently published ‘Building for Change’ (pub. gestalten, 2022) which demonstrates how contemporary practitioners are applying creative reuse strategies in architecture at the scale of the material, the building, the site, and in designing for future deconstruction.
Ruth also regularly contributes to a number of non-academic publications including the Architectural Review, Volume, RIBA Journal, and FRAME, and has guest edited a special issue on the ‘Invisible’ in architecture for The Modernist.
Ruth was the lead researcher for Future Observatory's Low-carbon Housing Research, which aimed to identify the hurdles to carbon reduction currently present in the housebuilding industry. The findings were published in the report Low-carbon Homes: Housing Construction for the Green Transition (2024).
Ruth is a moderator at Future Observatory's conference, Building Resilience: Demonstrators for a Changing Climate at the Design Museum in June 2026.
