A New TED Talk by Ronald Rael Puts Architecture's Power to Divide in the Spotlight

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"Isn't it fascinating how this simple act of drawing a line on a map can transform the way we see and experience the world?" asks Ronald Rael in his December 2018 TED Talk. "And those lines on a map can create scars in the landscape and scars in our memories."

Ronald Rael, one half of the Berkeley CA based practice Rael San Fratello, has held a professional interest in borders (specifically the US-Mexico border) for quite some time. He's developed numerous projects in the region, describing them as architecture "natives" or "immigrants" in the course of his talk. But as Rael spent more time in the area, he became increasingly interested in the border as an architectural element itself. "Is the wall architecture?" he asks.

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Cite: Katherine Allen. "A New TED Talk by Ronald Rael Puts Architecture's Power to Divide in the Spotlight" 10 Mar 2019. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/912920/a-new-ted-talk-by-ron-raels-puts-architectures-power-to-divide-in-the-spotlight> ISSN 0719-8884

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