Ronald Rael
2020 Eureka Fellow
Photo by Minesh Bacrania
Ronald Rael (2020) is a design activist, undocumented architect, and educator. As the San Francisco Chronicle writes, “Ronald Rael’s imagination is audacious. He speculates on the implications of a border wall, 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. Rael 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 in New York, NY; the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum in New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. *Artist biography at time of award.
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