Ronald Rael - Working with Muddy Robots // SMC NOMAS

Come join us for the SMC NOMAS Fall Lecture by Ronald Rael on Wednesday, October 2nd at 6:30pm, Santa Monica College (Orientation Hall) 1900 Pico Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90405. This event is free and free visitor parking will be available on the top level of Parking Structure 3 (entrance on Pico Blvd.)

Ronald Rael is a designer, activist, trained architect, author, and Eva Li Memorial Chair in Architecture at the University of California Berkeley. He is the Chair of the Department of Art Practice, where he holds a joint appointment and was previously served as Chair of the Department of Architecture, Director of the Masters of Architecture program, and the Director of the Masters of Advanced Architectural Design program in the College of Environmental Design. He is both a Bakar and Hellman Fellow, and directs the printFARM Laboratory (print Facility for Architecture, Research and Materials). His research interests connect indigenous and traditional material practices to contemporary technologies and issues and he is a design activist, author, and thought leader within the topics of additive manufacturing, borderwall studies, and earthen architecture. The London Design Museum awarded his creative practice, Rael San Fratello, (with architect Virginia San Fratello), the Beazley Award in 2021 for the design of the year, one of the most prestigious awards in design internationally. In 2014 his practice was named an Emerging Voice by The Architectural League of New York—one of the most coveted awards in North American architecture. In 2016 Rael San Fratello was also awarded the Digital Practice Award of Excellence by the The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA).

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