Architects Newspaper on The Homeless Sukkah
“Of the three entries we’ve actually seen, Rael San Fratello’s is probably the most interesting. Yet it is Sukkah of Signs that is most audacious in its scope and, we imagine, shape, as it tackles. Rael and San Fratello have gone about collecting signs from homeless people in the Bay Area and, with the help [...]
Sukkah City NYC 2010
Rael San Fratello Architects has been selected from over 600 entrants to participate in the Sukkah City competition. Our concept, The Homeless House, will use signs collected from the homeless to clad the entire structure. Just as the sukkah commemorates shelter provided during the forty desert-wandering years of Exodus, the design for our sukkah brings [...]
800X60: Adaptive Architecture and Security Infrastructure at, along and across the U.S.-Mexico Border
Parallel to the border, 800 miles of border wall has been constructed, and many more miles are planed—bisecting private and public lands, cities, farms, wildlife preserves and a university. The construction and maintenance costs of this security infrastructure are estimated to exceed $49 billion over the next twenty five years. A 60 linear-mile cross section, [...]
Consume at Exit Art
Hyperculture will be on display as part of the Consume exhibit at Exit Art in New York City. Consume, a project of SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics), investigates the world’s systems of food production, distribution, consumption and waste. Consume will be exhibited concurrently with ECOAESTHETIC: The Tragedy of Beauty. With fuel prices fluctuating and climate change [...]
The Biennial of the Americas
Rael San Fratello Architects was invited to participate in The Nature of Things, the central art exhibition of the The 2010 Biennial of the Americas, an international event celebrating the culture, ideas and people of the Western Hemisphere hosted by the City of Denver from July 1-31. Featuring 24 artists from countries throughout North, Central and [...]
Earth Architecture: Now in Paperback
The groundbreaking survey Earth Architecture is now available in a paperback edition. Only a few copies of the hardcover collectors edition are still available, but going fast. Buy Earth Architecture if you live in the following countries: [ U.S. | Japan | Germany | U.K. | France | Canada | Australia ] Read what others [...]
Pruned on Migrating Floating Gardens
“One wonders if there will be an outbreak of botanical piracy, whereby someone lassos in one of the floating mobile gardens by the tentacles and anchors it right above his house all summer long, its cooling shades cutting down his air conditioner use, not to mention his electricity bill.” Read more at Pruned.
Inhabit.com on the Box Box Mud House
Inhabit, the blog whose mantra is “Green Design will Save the World” reports on the Box Box/a.k.a. Mud House.
Terres, d’Afrique et d’Ailleurs
Architect and professor Ronald Rael has been invited to speak at the 2nd Pan African Cultural Festival in Algiers, Algeria, April 27, 2010. As part of the festival an exhibit and symposium entitled Terres, d’Afrique et d’Ailleurs, sponsored by the Algerian Ministry of culture and curated by architect Yasmine Terkhi, facilitated the participation of 19 [...]
Introspective Magazine on WPA 2.0
Introspective Magazine: The Most Beautiful Things on Earth features a selection of finalists from the WPA 2.0 competition.
San Fratello Lectures at San Jose State University
On Feb. 9, the lecture hall in the Art building nearly reached capacity with animation and interior design students and admirers. Raquel Coehlo and new Assistant Professor Virgina San Fratello presented their lecture, “Theory and Practice,” as part of the Tuesday night series hosted by the SJSU school of art and design. Read more.
Border Wall on Design Observer
Linda Samuels discusses Working Public Architecture 2.0 and the Border Wall as Infrastructure at Design Observer. “Border Wall as Infrastructure (from the Bay Area team of Rael San Fratello Architects) tackled one of our greatest infrastructural challenges…” Read more at Design Observer
AIA San Francisco’s Vertical Gardens Exhibition
The American Institute of Architects, San Francisco chapter (AIA San Francisco) and the Center for Architecture + Design Gallery have organized Vertical Gardens, a new exhibition which be open February 18 – April 30, 2010. Rael San Fratello Architects have created two “interpretive” green walls for the exhibition—Night Garden, developed in collaboration with students from [...]