Ruben Arakelyan

Background

In 2008 he graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute of the Moscow Institute of Architecture (diploma with honors, gold medal).

In 2011, he defended his PhD thesis on "Improving the quality of the living environment, taking into account the values of traditional residential communities" (MARKHI, PhD Candidate of Architecture).

Artist and architect, head of the WALL architectural bureau, which has developed more than 100 projects, including iconic public spaces for Moscow. Member of the Presidium of the Union of Architects of Russia, Member of the Architectural Council of Belgorod and the Council of the Cultural Heritage Foundation. He taught at the MARCHI, and also served as a curator at the MARSH Moscow Architectural School.

Speaker of the Moscow Urban Forum, the Open City Festival, the ARCH Moscow exhibition, etc. He acted as an expert and a member of the jury of the Lexus Design Award, the Architecture Festival, the Archigraphy competition, Steel2Real and others.