Ingrid Ruudi is an architectural historian, critic and curator. As a senior researcher at the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture her main topics are Estonian architecture and space culture from the end of the Soviet era until contemporary times, relations between architecture and art and also the application of gender studies on history of architecture.
She has been the editor of journals such as Estonian Architectural Review (2004-2011) and Studies on Art and Architecture (since 2021), curated various architectural exhibitions such as Gas Pipe, Estonian exposition at the La Biennale di Venezia 11th architecture exhibition 2008; Urban Installations Festival LIFT11 2011; Exhibition Riverspace, Tartu Kaarsild bridge 2012; Exhibition Unbuilt. Visions for a new society, 1986-1994 – at Estonian Architectural Museum 2015, Exhibition “A Room of One’s Own. A Feminist’s Questions to Architecture” – at Estonian Architectural Museum 2019. She has also been the founder of the interdisciplinary MÄRZ open project space (2010-2011), written art- and architecture critique and translated specialised literature.
She has been awarded prizes such as the Estonian Research Council’s national competition for best dissertations, special prize of the Estonian Heritage Board for the best doctoral thesis (2021) and Medal of the Union of Estonian Architects for conceptualization activities 2015 among others.