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National Design Award Winner, Architect, designer, creative technologist and partner at #raelsanfratello @emergingobjects, Chair of Design @sjsu.

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Since 1776.

The 2026/27 Frederick Hammersley Visiting Artist, Eric J. Garcia, shares the meaning of his expansive mural in the Museum's lobby as a commentary on the state of world since 1776 and the meaning of celebrating 250 years since 1776. The mural intentionally integrates another installation by Ron Rael and Virginia San Fratello, "Teeter-Totter."

Rael was the 2022/23 Frederick Hammersley Visiting Artist. In 2019, Rael San Fratello (along with Colectivo Chopeke) installed Teeter-Totter, three pink see-saws on the US-Mexico border, named 2020 Design of the Year. The Museum purchased one of the three see-saws in 2023.

Albuquerque Museum’s Visiting Artist program is generously supported by the Frederick Hammersley Fund for the Arts at the Albuquerque Community Foundation.

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A week of making, testing, weaving, and building has become MUD Y MÁQUINA.

Developed by #AMC researchers together with designer and artist Virginia San Fratello, the project took shape during a week-long workshop at Künstlerhaus Ganslberg, the former home and studio of sculptor Fritz Koenig.

MUD Y MÁQUINA explores how technology can support, rather than replace, the knowledge carried through constructing things by hand. The walk-in sculpture combines earth, natural fibres, robotics, and human making in a woven structure that draws on long traditions of craft and building with regional materials, while opening these practices to new forms of digital making. It keeps open the question of where robotics and automation belong in making, and where choosing not to use them matters.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening and to all who contributed to bringing this work to life.

Philip Thiele, Osman Zihini, Norman Hack (A05), Hannes Eichler, Diana Zavaleta, Tilmann Fricke, Harald Kloft (A10), Hauke Heeren, Annika Raatz (B04), David Richter, Milena Pospischil, Kathrin Dörfler (B05), Evelyn Dorrestijn, Dirk Lowke (WG Lowke), Mohammad Aghamolki, Markus Gerke (C06)

Photos: Lidia Atanasova, Kai Uwe Bletzinger, Julia Hinderink

📍 Künstlerhaus Ganslberg

#MudYMaquina #VirginiaSanFratello #DigitalFabrication #ArchitectureResearch

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🌾 Die Zukunft ist aus Lehm
Am Freitagabend haben wir in der Kugelhalle „Mud y Máquina“ eröffnet, das künstlerische Forschungsprojekt von Virginia San Fratello @vasfsf mit dem Sonderforschungsbereich TRR 277 AMC @amc_trr277 und Studierenden der TU München @digitalfabrication.tum , der TU Braunschweig @tu.braunschweig und aus Hannover.
Entstanden ist eine geschwungene Wand aus Weidengeflecht. Ein Roboterarm hat den Lehm in einem Waffelmuster aufgesprüht, das von Hand nicht möglich wäre. Dazu kommen Maisblätter vom Feld gleich nebenan. Drinnen riecht und klingt es anders: ein Raum für alle Sinne.
💬 Virginia San Fratello ist überzeugt, dass die Gebäude der Zukunft aus Lehm gebaut werden und robotisch gesprühtes Lehmflechtwerk in 30 Jahren ganz normal sein könnte.
Wir gratulieren der Künstlerin und dem wunderbaren Team von Wissenschaftlern:innen und Studenten:innen!

🙏 Danke an Christoph Rabl @rablchristoph Stadtrat in Landshut und Vorstandsmitglied der Fritz-und-Maria-Koenig-Stiftung, an Bürgermeister Sebastian Stanglmaier @sebastianstanglmaier und Prof. David Andreen (Universität Lund) @david.andreen für ihre Grußworte.

👀 Es geht weiter: Noch im Oktober folgt unser nächstes Projekt mit der TU München, diesmal rund um Keramik.

✨ Morgen, Sonntag, 11. Oktober, ist „Mud y Máquina“ beim Tag des offenen Ateliers von 13 bis 18 Uhr zu sehen. Eintritt frei

📍 Künstlerhaus Ganslberg, Ganslberg 24, 84032 Altdorf

Fot. Hannes Eichler & Milena Pospischil für AMC TRR 277
#künstlerhausganslberg #mudymaquina #fritzkoenig #lehmbau

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A week of making, testing, weaving, and building has become MUD Y MÁQUINA.

Developed by #AMC researchers together with designer and artist Virginia San Fratello, the project took shape during a week-long workshop at Künstlerhaus Ganslberg, the former home and studio of sculptor Fritz Koenig.

MUD Y MÁQUINA explores how technology can support, rather than replace, the knowledge carried through constructing things by hand. The walk-in sculpture combines earth, natural fibres, robotics, and human making in a woven structure that draws on long traditions of craft and building with regional materials, while opening these practices to new forms of digital making. It keeps open the question of where robotics and automation belong in making, and where choosing not to use them matters.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening and to all who contributed to bringing this work to life.

Philip Thiele, Osman Zihini, Norman Hack (A05), Hannes Eichler, Diana Zavaleta, Tilmann Fricke, Harald Kloft (A10), Hauke Heeren, Annika Raatz (B04), David Richter, Milena Pospischil, Kathrin Dörfler (B05), Evelyn Dorrestijn, Dirk Lowke (WG Lowke), Mohammad Aghamolki, Markus Gerke (C06)

Photos: Lidia Atanasova, Kai Uwe Bletzinger, Julia Hinderink

📍 Künstlerhaus Ganslberg

#MudYMaquina #VirginiaSanFratello #DigitalFabrication #ArchitectureResearch

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Coffee grounds, grape skins, wildfire ash… and architecture? 👀

At first glance, ‘Rael San Fratello: Prototypes and Provocations’ is full of unexpected materials and playful experiments. But look a little closer, and there’s a lot more going on: questions about sustainability, borders, and how design can bring people together.

The exhibition explores more than two decades of work by Oakland-based architecture and design studio Rael San Fratello, including ‘Sanctuary,’ a 3D-printed structure made from soil, straw, and water, and the iconic ‘Teeter-totter Wall.’

📍 @ybca 701 Mission Street, San Francisco
📅 On view through January 31, 2027
🎟️ Free admission Wednesdays, 11 a.m.–8 p.m.
🕒 Thursday–Sunday, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.

@rrael & @vasfsf

Save this for your next San Francisco museum day!

#ybca #sfthingstodo #artandarchitecture #artexhibition #sanfranciscoart

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„Mud y Máquina” – Lehm, Naturfasern und Robotik in der Kugelhalle
Tag des offenen Ateliers in Niederbayern · Sonntag, 11. Oktober 2026 · 13.00-18.00 Uhr
@kulturniederbayern

Am Tag des offenen Ateliers zeigt das Künstlerhaus Ganslberg in der Kugelhalle erstmals öffentlich das Projekt „Mud y Máquina”. Es ist ein interdisziplinäres künstlerisches Forschungsprojekt der Künstlerin und AMC Mercator Fellow Virginia San Fratello @vasfsf und Forschender des Sonderforschungsbereichs TRR 277 „Additive Manufacturing in Construction” (@amc_trr277 ). Realisiert wurde es von der Professur für Digitale Fabrikation der TUM @digitalfabrication.tum @tu.muenchen School of Engineering and Design, in Zusammenarbeit der TU München, der TU Braunschweig @tu.braunschweig und der Leibniz Universität Hannover @uni_hannover .
„Mud y Máquina” verbindet Erde, Naturfasern, Robotik und die Arbeit menschlicher Hände. Das gewebte Tragwerk und die Oberfläche aus Lehm knüpfen an Deutschlands lange Tradition des Handwerks an, an regionale Materialien und an das Bauen mit dem, was vor Ort verfügbar ist. Zugleich öffnen sie diese Praktiken für neue digitale Werkzeuge.
Das Projekt fragt, was entstehen kann, wenn Maschinen das im Handwerk überlieferte Wissen unterstützen, statt es zu ersetzen. „Mud y Máquina” ist Kunstwerk und Einladung zugleich: zum Nachdenken über lokalere, nachhaltigere und gemeinschaftlichere Formen des Bauens.
Der Eintritt ist frei.
#fritzkoenig #künstlerhausganslberg #ganslberg #ateliersinniederbayern #virginiasanfratello

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🍂 There’s a lot to see and do at YBCA this fall!

🖼️ Don’t miss our newest exhibitions: Hyperallergic says “Dread Scott: The Body Politic” is one of the 10 shows to see this season in SF, and Dezeen praises the ‘radical imagination’ of “Rael San Fratello: Prototypes and Provocations.”

🧑‍🎨 Creativity Explored is still in residence, offering free hands-on art making in our gallery building at 701 Mission. Come by between 11 am and 2pm on Wednesdays and Fridays to make work alongside their wonderful artists—and there’s a stunning selection of art on display for purchase.

🖌️ Every Wednesday, our Free Art Workshops offer another chance to make something of your own. And Wednesdays are a great day to linger a little longer! We’re open until 8 PM with free admission all day.

Make YBCA part of your fall in San Francisco.

Photos by Matthew Millman, Corey Marsau, and Mahelly Ferreira for Drew Altizer Photography. A contemporary art exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts features work by architecture and design studio Rael San Fratello. The art includes "The Workshop," a small house structure with a textured roof and walls decorated with square elements. Nearby, a large yellow artwork with the word "REUNITE" and silhouetted figures is displayed on the wall. In the foreground, a white table contains various 3D-printed pieces. The gallery space has a modern, minimalist design with high ceilings and natural light.

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🔔 Deem Distinguished lecture with Virginia San Fratello

🗓️ Thursday, October 1

⏰ 5 PM

📍 Canady Creative Arts Center Bloch Hall

Please join us tonight at 5 PM for the Deem Distinguished Lecture by Virginia San Fratello.

Virginia San Fratello is an artist, designer, and educator whose interdisciplinary practice examines the relationships between material systems, emerging technologies, and the social and ecological conditions that shape the built environment. Working across sculpture, installation, architecture, and digital fabrication, her work investigates how objects and spaces carry coded and cultural narratives and how design can engage questions of memory, labor, and environmental transformation. Poster for Deem Distinguished Lecture with Virginia San Fratello

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Still thinking about last week. ❤️

We opened two extraordinary exhibitions at YBCA: by Rael San Fratello and by Dread Scott.

It’s deeply satisfying to see creative endeavors move from months of conversations, planning, problem-solving, and care into rooms filled with people and artist friends encountering the work for the first time.

So much love & respect for the YBCA team who made it happen.

The galleries are looking 🔥. Come see these shows.

Photos: Mahelly Ferreira for Drew Altizer Photography

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Via Binarii (2019) is now part of the collection and permanent exhibition “Models from the Past for the Future” of @designmuseumgent. Looking forward to discovering these seven teapots’ new home* this week!

“A line of makers stretching around the world from East to West. For Via Binarii, the teapot is the starting point. Drawing inspiration from the historic trade routes that delivered goods and knowledge from the exotic East, we trace the origins of the teapot, travelling from China to England, and continue this story in a contemporary age.”

🙏🏼 @evelienbracke, Eva Van Regenmortel, @olivier_vandh, @bnt.vdv, @crstnbrgn

Big thanks to @jkeep_artpottery @earlyamericanrobotpottery @rrael @vasfsf @emergingobjects @kammburger @the_mollylu @emrecanceramics @shlomitbauman @noamdover @itayohaly for collaborating with us on this project back in 2019 and your continuous inspiration!

Also a slightly sad moment: saying goodbye to ‘Artefacts of a New History’ and ‘Skafaldo Bowl’, who were Unfold’s ambassadors in the previous permanent exhibition and will now take a step back into the archives.

📷 @anwyn.howarth courtesy Collection Design Museum Gent

#ceramic3dprinting #ceramics #3dprinting #dataclay

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We are pleased to welcome Virginia San Fratello @vasfsf to campus this week to present the Deem Distinguished Lecture. Please join us for Virginia’s talk this Thursday, October 1 at 5 PM in Canady Creative Arts Center Bloch Hall.

Funded by Patrick and Alison Deem, the Deem Distinguished Lecture is now in its 32nd year. The annual event helps further the WVU education experience by exposing students and faculty to cutting-edge artists and art supporters.

Virginia San Fratello is an architect, interior designer, and educator. She is Chair of The Department of Design at San José State University in Silicon Valley. San Fratello is a National Design Award winner for Digital Design and a winner of the International Interior Design Educator of the Year Award. She is also a winner of the Metropolis Magazine Next Gen Design Competition. Her creative practice, Rael San Fratello, was named an Emerging Voice by The Architectural League of New York, and in 2021, they were awarded the Beazley Design of the Year.

San Fratello is the co-author of “Printing Architecture: Innovative Recipes for 3D Printing”, a book that reexamines the building process from the bottom up and offers illuminating case studies for 3D printing with materials like chardonnay grape skins, salt, and sawdust. She is a partner in Emerging Objects, a creatively driven, 3D Printing MAKE-tank specializing in innovations in 3D printing architecture, and a co-founder of Forust.

Her work is recognized by several institutions, including The National Building Museum, the Bellevue Museum, For Freedoms, and is included in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the CSMVS Museum in Mumbai, LACMA, and the Design Museum in London. Designer Virginia San Fratello amongst her creative works

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Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for the opening of “Dread Scott: The Body Politic” and “Rael San Fratello: Prototypes and Provocations.” We loved seeing the galleries filled with conversation and curiosity—and now’s your chance to take a close look at these shows.

See the work this week during normal gallery hours: Wed 11am–8pm (with free admission all day), or Thu through Sun 11am–5pm.

Or see the exhibitions during the Nexus Party, co-presented by MoAD & YBCA this Thursday night.

Photos by Mahelly Ferreira for Drew Altizer Photography. Ronald Rael, Rene Morales, Mari Robles, Dread Scott, and Virginia San Fratello smile at the camera for a group photo inside the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts lobby at night. The lighting behind them is bright pink and yellow.

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