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Borderwall as Architecture is an artistic and intellectual hand grenade of a
book, and a timely re-examination of what the 650 miles of physical barrier that
divides the United States of America from the United Mexican States is, and
could be. It is both a protest against the wall and a projection about its
future. Through a series of propositions suggesting that the nearly seven
hundred miles of wall is an opportunity for economic and social development
along the border that encourages its conceptual and physical dismantling, the
book takes readers on a journey along a wall that cuts through a “third nation”
— the Divided States of America. On the way the transformative effects of the
wall on people, animals, and the natural and built landscape are exposed and
interrogated through the story of people who, on both sides of the border,
transform the wall, challenging its existence in remarkably creative ways.
Coupled with these real-life accounts are counterproposals for the wall, created
by Rael’s studio, that reimagine, hyperbolize, or question the wall and its
construction, cost, performance, and meaning. Rael proposes that despite the
intended use of the wall, which is to keep people out and away, the wall is
instead an attractor, engaging both sides in a common dialogue. Included is a
collection of reflections on the wall and its consequences by leading experts
Michael Dear (author of Why Walls Won’t Work), Norma Iglesias-Prieto (Professor
of Chican@ Studies at San Diego State University), Marcello Di Cintio (Author of
Walls: Travels Along the Barricades), and Teddy Cruz (Professor and Co-director,
UCSD-Blum Cross-Border Initiative, University of California, San Diego).
Drawings and models from the book are now included in the permanent collections
at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design
Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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