Join us on October 7 at 5 PM CDT for a lecture by author and design activist Ronald Rael. Rael holds the Eva Li Memorial Chair in Architecture and a joint appointment in the Department of Architecture and the Department of Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (2017), an illustrated biography and protest of the wall dividing the U.S. from Mexico; and Earth Architecture (2008), a history of building with earth in the modern era to exemplify new, creative uses of the oldest building material on the planet. 

Rael’s research interests connect indigenous and traditional material practices to contemporary technologies and issues. Emerging Objects, a company co-founded by Rael, is an independent, creatively driven, 3D Printing MAKE-tank specializing in innovations in 3D printing architecture, building components, environments and products.

Introductory remarks will be provided by Jason Reed, co-founder and director of Borderland Collective and Associate Professor of Photography at Texas State University.

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This event is made possible with support from the Art and Design Lecture Series at Texas State University and the Humanities Institute at the University of Texas at Austin.