Nov 4, 2004

FUZZY EDGE 2: RESISTANT MATTERS
EXPLORING MATERIAL VOICE IN THE GENERATION OF FORM
The Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design's Interior Architecture + Design
lecture series:

"Earthscrapers"
Ronald Rael
Thursday, November 4th at 7:00 p.m.
TBM Video Screening Room (4th floor)
MIAD 273 E. Erie Street
Free and open to the public

Ronald Rael is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Clemson where he is the Coordinator of the Core Architecture Studios and Director of AREA, a Summer Institute examining activism, research and experimentation through architecture. Prior to joining the faculty at Clemson, he was a member of the Design Faculty at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles and a Senior Instructor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He earned his Masters of Architecture degree at Columbia University in New York City where he was the recipient of the William Kinne Memorial Fellowship. He holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Rael's research explores the relationship and contrast between industrial and non-industrial modes of production, the breadth of which includes architecture constructed of raw earth to methods of fabrication via digital processes. "Constructed Topographies: Earth Architecture in the Context of Modernism and Contemporary Culture", which examines a counter-history of modern architecture, and "Cities of Earth", an examination of architecture in Yemen, have been funded by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts and the Architecture League of New York respectively.

Notable design projects include a First Place aware in the SECCA Home/House Competition of HAY HOUSE, a seasonal response to agrarian production, and an Honarable Mention Award from International Desgin Magazine in the Graphic Design Category for their 50th Annual Design Review for his design for the cover of "PRAXIS 6", an international journal for contemporary architectural theory and practice. "Earthscraper", a project to reclaim dredged material from the Ports of New York/New Jersey was exhibited at the 2000 Venice Biennale. Recent professional projects include CASA IMMOBILE, a private residence near the Texas-Mexico border, and the LIVING WATER ACTIVITY CHAPEL, an indoor-outdoor multi use pavilion for a congregation in Anderson, South Carolina.

Lecture series moderated by Erin Linegar and Ellery Brumder, senior Interior Architecture + Design students, with the help of Joshua G. Stein, former Assistant Professor, MIAD IA+D, currently on the Interior Architecture faculty at Woodbury University in Los Angeles.

For more information, please contact 414.807.1680