By Cesar Murillo
A house without a toilet in the slums of San Isidro in Tijuana; growing up with none of the comforts he has today--"Roy" Rogelio Hernandez introduced his path from zero to hero.
Beginning in 1972 along with a small group of Chicano student designers: Anne Cervantes, Carlos Rodriguez, Oswaldo Lopez; Roy helped establish the Community Design Outreach Program with a mission to increase the recruitment of Chicanos in the College of Environmental Design (CED); as well as offering design services to Latino and low-income communities of color in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Roy explained his role in Latino activist movements in painting the CASA mural titled 'Adeltante y Nunca Pa'tras, Huelga de Estudiantes' on the fifth floor of Wurster Hall in 1977 which was painted over in the late 1980s. As well as playing a role in the creation of RAZA Day, the first successful recruitment efforts advocating Latinos for higher education done at a university--later adopted by other schools in the nation. Rogelio designed the first three Raza Day posters in '76, '77, and '78, and also collaborated with CASA to provide very popular seminars at CED on the study of architecture and community design. Finally, Hernandez helped greet highschool students with an incredible slideshow soundtrack--'War's LowRider'--produced by Carlos Rodriguez and Oswaldo Lopez----as well as organizing 'pachangas' as fundraisers to raise money for community and non-profit organizations in the Bay Area.
In sharing his work experience, he described his interest for pursing a multidisciplinary career. He started his work in designing different building-types to specialize in different aspects of building construction, but he moved on to pursue a career in digital software. "Firms that are different have better and more chances of surviving recessions," Roy suggests. He told the story of how he trained himself to learn AutoCad and introduce it's use for architecture design for his firm and was then hired to train others in firms nation-wide. Since then, Roy has worked with companies like IBM to become more involved in learning and expanding the use of different software in fields outside of architecture.
A house without a toilet in the slums of San Isidro in Tijuana; growing up with none of the comforts he has today--"Roy" Rogelio Hernandez introduced his path from zero to hero.
Beginning in 1972 along with a small group of Chicano student designers: Anne Cervantes, Carlos Rodriguez, Oswaldo Lopez; Roy helped establish the Community Design Outreach Program with a mission to increase the recruitment of Chicanos in the College of Environmental Design (CED); as well as offering design services to Latino and low-income communities of color in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Roy explained his role in Latino activist movements in painting the CASA mural titled 'Adeltante y Nunca Pa'tras, Huelga de Estudiantes' on the fifth floor of Wurster Hall in 1977 which was painted over in the late 1980s. As well as playing a role in the creation of RAZA Day, the first successful recruitment efforts advocating Latinos for higher education done at a university--later adopted by other schools in the nation. Rogelio designed the first three Raza Day posters in '76, '77, and '78, and also collaborated with CASA to provide very popular seminars at CED on the study of architecture and community design. Finally, Hernandez helped greet highschool students with an incredible slideshow soundtrack--'War's LowRider'--produced by Carlos Rodriguez and Oswaldo Lopez----as well as organizing 'pachangas' as fundraisers to raise money for community and non-profit organizations in the Bay Area.
In sharing his work experience, he described his interest for pursing a multidisciplinary career. He started his work in designing different building-types to specialize in different aspects of building construction, but he moved on to pursue a career in digital software. "Firms that are different have better and more chances of surviving recessions," Roy suggests. He told the story of how he trained himself to learn AutoCad and introduce it's use for architecture design for his firm and was then hired to train others in firms nation-wide. Since then, Roy has worked with companies like IBM to become more involved in learning and expanding the use of different software in fields outside of architecture.
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