Associate of architecture Ronald Rael. (Photo courtesy of the College of Environmental Design)
Copper plate prints of four architectural plans by Ronald Rael , a UC Berkeley, associate professor of architecture, and his partner, Virginia San Fratello , are featured in the New York Museum of Modern Art exhibit, 'Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter.' The prints - 'Xylophone Wall,' 'Horse Racing Wall,' 'Cactus Wall' and 'Teeter-Totter Wall” - and two drawings from the 'Recuerdos' series in Rael's upcoming book, Borderwall as Architecture, will be part of MoMA's permanent collection. Rael's border wall ideas use humor and inventiveness to address the futility of building barriers. The New York Museum of Modern Art describes its exhibit, which runs through Jan. 22, as bringing together projects by architects, designers and artists, working in a range of mediums and scales to respond to the complex circumstances brought about by forced displacement. It is part of Citizens and Borders, a series of MoMA projects related to works in the museum collection that provide a critical perspective on histories of migration, territory and displacement. Earlier this year, Rael wrote a column for The Architect's Newspaper about an architectural competition sponsored by the Third Mind Foundation for the border wall between the United States and Mexico.
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