Ronald Rael

Ronald Rael draws, builds, writes, 3dprints, and teaches about architecture as a cultural endeavor deeply influenced by a unique upbringing in a desolate alpine valley in southern Colorado. As the San Francisco Chronicle writes, “his imagination is audacious”, and he speculates on the implications of a borderwall, building with mud, and using 3D printers to create buildings, as seen in his books, “Borderwall as Architecture", "Earth Architecture", and "Printing Architecture”, with his partner, architect and educator Virginia San Fratello. He is a professor of Architecture at the University of California Berkeley and is a founding partner of the Oakland based Make-Tank, Emerging Objects. You can see his drawings, models, and objects in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.