Ruth Mandl

Ruth Mandl is a Principal of CO Adaptive and a licensed architect, registered in New York and Massachusetts. She grew up in Vienna, Austria and received her BA in Interior Architecture from Kingston University in London in 2005, which started her enthusiasm for adaptive reuse, and her thinking that in it lies the key to the sustainable growth of our cities. Ruth completed her M.Arch at Columbia GSAPP in 2010, and co- founded CO Adaptive in 2011, which has since won numerous awards for their work, and been recognized as a Design Vanguard by Architectural Record, featured as a Next Progressive by ARCHITECT Magazine, and was show-cased in the inaugural exhibition Architecture Now: New York, New Publics at The Museum of Modern Art in 2023. Ruth has given talks at Montana State, University of Virginia, University of Miami and University of Waterloo.