yes architecture.

Ruth Berktold obtained her diploma in Stuttgart and continued her studies at the Städelschule under Enric Miralles and Peter Cook. During this time she worked for Eisele + Fritz, Darmstadt and Behnisch und Partner, Stuttgart - projects included the Bundestag (Parliament) in Bonn and the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin. A DAAD scholarship permitted her to move to New York and complete Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design at Columbia University with honours. She worked for Bernard Tschumi (dean of Columbia University) for 3 years on the project Lerner Hall. She then became a project designer for a new concert hall at Carnegie Hall. She became an adjunct professor at Rensselaer Politechnic Institute in Troy, NY under Alan Balfour and teached at the Parsons School of Design in NY with Lise Anne Couture. She subsequently became a project architect for the New York avant-garde practice Asymptote. Projects and competitons included the Delivery Center of BMW in Munich and the Mercedes Benz Museum in Stuttgart. In June 2002 she founded the office YES Architecture with her partner Marion Wicher and now holds practices in Munich, Graz and New York. Since April 2003 she holds a tenure track appointment at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich (Chair of Computer Aided Design - CAX)