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FF – Distance Edition: Rael San Fratello

This fall and winter, the League’s monthly First Friday series will shift to a new online format, as well as a new day of the week: Thursday. Expanding our reach beyond New York City, each event will explore design practices that operate in multiple roles—coupling architecture with initiatives including design advocacy, fabrication research, and community engagement.

Each program, conducted onsite at an office or recent project, will consist of brief presentations about the practice and its work, relationship to the local context, and impetus for creating alternative modes of practice. An informal conversation with attendees will follow.

Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello are the alchemists and architects behind the Oakland-based studio Rael San Fratello and the make-tank Emerging Objects. Wired magazine writes of their innovations: “While others busy themselves trying to prove that it’s possible to 3D print a house, Rael and San Fratello are occupied with trying to design one people would actually want to live in.” Their practice rethinks the way sensuous and sustainable objects and buildings can be made from the ground up, while also speculating about the social agency of design, particularly along the borderlands between the USA and Mexico. You can see their models, designs and objects in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.











When: Thu., Nov. 5, 2020 at 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Pl.
212-683-0023
Price: $5
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This fall and winter, the League’s monthly First Friday series will shift to a new online format, as well as a new day of the week: Thursday. Expanding our reach beyond New York City, each event will explore design practices that operate in multiple roles—coupling architecture with initiatives including design advocacy, fabrication research, and community engagement.

Each program, conducted onsite at an office or recent project, will consist of brief presentations about the practice and its work, relationship to the local context, and impetus for creating alternative modes of practice. An informal conversation with attendees will follow.

Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello are the alchemists and architects behind the Oakland-based studio Rael San Fratello and the make-tank Emerging Objects. Wired magazine writes of their innovations: “While others busy themselves trying to prove that it’s possible to 3D print a house, Rael and San Fratello are occupied with trying to design one people would actually want to live in.” Their practice rethinks the way sensuous and sustainable objects and buildings can be made from the ground up, while also speculating about the social agency of design, particularly along the borderlands between the USA and Mexico. You can see their models, designs and objects in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Buy tickets/get more info now