 I have always been fascinated in ruins. That was my childhood playground. Growing up here in La Floría, Colorado, there were many abandoned buildings that were made out of adobe. Now I'm a professor of architecture working on an experiment. 3D printing comes to La Floría. What do you think, Mom? My name is Ronald Drell. I have a mission to unearth the histories of earthen buildings. I'm from a very particular place in the United States. This was the border between the United States and Mexico until 1845. Because there's a long history of indigenous slavery at that border, my family is part of that history. Whether being a descendant of a slave or descendant of someone who held a slave, we are connected to that past. And that history would have been erased. All my life I had seen houses melt into the landscape. I have seen language begin to disappear. I have seen in my lifetime people disappear. I think that one way of looking towards the future is actually looking at the past and seeing what we've done. We can make work that bridges the borders between science and culture and politics. Between art and architecture. We're talking about architecture, furniture, and objects all made out of the same materials using the same technology. And it's alive. This house is part of us now.