Video,Here is Tijuana, directed by Les Bernstien and Produced by Rene Peralta. Based on the book by the same title and authored by: F.Montezemolo, H. Yepez and R. Peralta. Shown here at the closing event of BORDOCS!

Centro Cultural Tijuana, Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana y Woodbury University I ENCUENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE ARQUITECTURA 2011 Entrada Libre. “Lo que existe es una pequeña parte de lo que es posible”. Pere Alberch Vivimos en sociedades inmersas en un proceso de globalización creciente y en las que la mayor parte de la población mundial vive en…

My text in GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place : Michael Dear, Jim Ketchum, Sarah Luria, Doug Richardson: Routledge (May 26, 2011) DRIVE-BY TIJUANA René Peralta GENERICA Architects Tijuana, Baja California I am sitting at the moment in a middle class suburb in what is now defined as the geographic center of…

In the book edited by Michael Dear, et al. “Geohumanities: Art, history, text at the edge of place” includes an essay by Rene Peralta titled, Drive by Tijuana! “The urban outcomes that characterize the Information Age are dramatically described in architect Rene Peralta’s account of the border city of Tijuana, in Baja California. One of…

Rene Peralta: Landscape + Urbanism Graduate Program Director @ KSA Ohio State Univ. Friday, May 27 at noon, KSA main space: Rene Peralta will hold an information session for all students and interested faculty on Woodbury University’s new Landscape + Urbanism master’s program. More info HERE

Rene Peralta will be participating in Political Equator Political Equator 3 is a 2-day cross-border mobile conference held on the 3rd and 4th of June 2011. This event is co-organized by the Center for Urban Ecologies at the Visual Arts Department at UCSD, and two community-based, non-profit organizations on both sides of the border, Casa…

End of the Year Exhibition. Woodbury University San Diego (1st to 3rd year exhibition)

Tijuana’s Public Space: the Consumption of Identity On the morning of April 12, a crowd of approximately 700 Tijuana residents, armed with placards and megaphones, shouted on the doorsteps of city hall, “¡Eco-cidio — no a la tala de arboles! ¡No al Zócalo once de julio!” The citizens group Movimiento Ciudadano en Defensa del Parque…

2nd Year Studio Woodbury University, San Diego, CA Spring 2011 Our 2nd year studio has been involved in the research of skin and envelope tectonics, program diagramming and finally in our last project we dealt with spatial effects (deep space, light, porosity, translucency etc) for a water museum located in the Salton Sea. Our perspective…

Paisajes Culturales y Fronterizos, Ensenada BC 9-12 Junio, 2011 Para mas información: click aqui