Arriscraft Lecture: Virginia San Fratello

Thursday, November 5, 2015 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Virginia San Fratello
Emerging Objects
Full Scale Study Models

Virginia San Fratello is an architect, artist and educator. She is a partner at Rael San Fratello and in Emerging Objects, which is a pioneering design and research company that specializes in 3D printed materials and objects for the built environment based in Oakland, California. San Fratello is an Assistant Professor in the area of Design at San Jose State University. She holds Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University in the City of New York.
Her research focuses on the convergence of digital, ecological, and creative material explorations. The research is applied through the design and fabrication of innovative buildings and their components, furniture elements and site specific installations that often look at inherent material resources and have embedded political consequences.
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