Rab McClure

Specialization

Digital fabrication, Interior architecture, Product design

Education

• Master of Architecture, Yale University
• Bachelor of Science in Architecture, University of Virginia

Biography

Rab McClure’s teaching and creative scholarship mine the sweet spot where design and fine arts overlap. His work investigates form, light, space, material, memory and imagination. He holds a US Design Patent and has exhibited projects and presented research in Lisbon, London, Eindhoven, Milan, Venice, Rome, Helsinki, St. Petersburg, Doha, Dubai, Kyoto, Vancouver, Miami and Washington, DC. Rab is a registered architect, a certified interior designer, and a graduate of the University of Virginia and Yale University. He is the Director of Graduate Studies at VCUarts Qatar.

Research Interests

Workshop-based instruction, Fabrication technology, Resolution

Publications

McClure, R. (2021). Portable Dovecotes: Studio-Driven Research. Architecture MPS, UCL Press. Peer reviewed. (22.1nd ed., pp. 319-327). University of Kent: United Kingdom: UCL Press.ISSN 2398-9467.

Presentations

• Virga: A Collaborative Kinetic Installation. Seventeenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices. Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon. Lisbon, Portugal. March, 2023.
• Boost Lab: Product Design + Development. Institute for Creative Research Launch, VCUarts Qatar. May, 2022.

Exhibitions

• Virga. Exhibition of nineteen collaboratively designed cloud forms, installed as part of the commissioned exhibition, “Language as Machine.” VCUarts Qatar Gallery, Doha. February 13 – April 8, 2023.
• Seed Pod Mini: Evolution. Qatar America Institute for Culture (QAIC), Washington, DC. February 2 – August 31, 2023.
• Got Milk? Melting Pottery. Circolo del Design, Turin, Italy. March 3-April 13, 2022.
• Got Milk? Melting Pottery. Munlab Clay Ecomuseum, Turin, Italy. March 5-March 27, 2022.
• Temporal Reliquaries. Time Space Existence 2021. European Cultural Centre, Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy. Exhibited during the 2021 Venice Biennale. May 22-November 21, 2021.
• Evolution. What If? Art 21 Gallery, Doha, Qatar. January 30-February 28, 2021.

Funded Research Projects and Grants

Boost Lab: Product Design and Development. Institute for Creative Research, VCUarts Qatar. Funded.