Ronald Rael Lecture

Ronald Rael, still from Teeter-Totter Wall, 2019, single-channel video with sound, 3:00 min. Courtesy of Rael San Fratello

Doors open at 5:45 p.m. Free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Explore the Visiting Artists Program homepage for visitor information, recordings of past events, and more.

Join us for a lecture by architect Ronald Rael followed by an audience Q&A.

Ronald Rael is a trained architect, artist, activist, design technologist, multi-generational rancher, and traditional builder. His work blurs the borders between architecture, art, technology, land-based practice, and social justice. He writes books, forms startup companies, advocates for human rights at the US-Mexico border, creates software, invents novel materials and new forms of construction, and designs buildings as an applied research enterprise. His work often combines indigenous and traditional materials and processes with contemporary technologies to speak to the contrasts, contradictions, and complexities of othered subjects, ranging from people to materials and places, in contemporary society. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, The London Design Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Renwick Smithsonian American Art Museum. He has served as the chair of the departments of Architecture and Art Practice and is the Eva Li Memorial Chair in Architecture at the University of California Berkeley.

Presented in partnership with the William Bronson and Grayce Slovet Mitchell Lecture Series in SAIC's Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects.

This event will be live captioned by Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) services. The auditorium is wheelchair accessible and hearing assisted devices are available. For additional access requests, visit saic.edu/access.