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Reception with free food starts at 5:15pm, Leture starts at 5:47pm in ENVD 134.
Ronald Rael (EnvDes'94) will give a free and public lecture titled, "Full Scale Study Models." He is an architect, author, and Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley with a joint appointment in the departments of Architecture and Art Practice. Rael’s research seeks creative strategies for activism to permeate architectural design culture. Without making direct formal or ethno-cultural references to this work, his research and creative work transforms the practice of architecture into an activist endeavor—one that is defiant, inventive and tied to contemporary issues and design vocabularies. The work relies upon a deep understanding place, and its inherent resources, and makes careful links between a broad spectrum of tools that come from manual, industrial and digital approaches to making architecture.

His firm, Rael San Fratello Architects, was established in 2002 with a focus on emerging technologies and ecological design. It integrates architecture, art, culture and the environment and has been recognized in publications such as the New York Times, MARK, Domus, Metropolis Magazine.