Brandon Loper
Kevin Wilcock, David Baker, and Peter MacKenzie
San Francisco residents and visitors alike can learn more about the history and architecture of this beautiful city as AIA San Francisco sponsors a month of architecture and design activities open to everyone. This year’s Architecture and the City theme, “Design: It’s About Time,” examines the current trend of adaptive reuse for permanent as well as pop-up uses. According to the description, festival organizers hope this year’s lectures, exhibitions, and tours “will encourage attendees to consider both the notion of permanence and the enduring power of design in the built environment, and to explore the layers of history that have shaped San Francisco.”
Readers of residential architect who will be in San Francisco on Sept. 15-16 will have the opportunity to meet some of the architects featured on our pages during the festival house tours. Different residential projects are available for open house-style visits on Saturday and Sunday. Each project will be hosted by an architect as well as other design team members. Firms with work featured on the tour include Fougeron Architecture, David Baker + Partners Architects, and Zack | de Vito Architecture and Construction.
Other highlights from the more than 40 planned events include:
A walking tour of the master planned, mid-century modern neighborhood of Diamond Heights with a Joseph Eichler subdivision, led by Docomomo/Noca.
A boat tour of the Golden Gate and Bay bridges, led by Donald MacDonald, FAIA, Donald MacDonald Architects, along with Jeffrey Heller, FAIA, Heller Manus Architects, and Bart Ney, SF-Oakland Bay Bridge Seismic Safety Projects.
Spaces Through Gender, an exhibition on Latin American women in architecture, open through Sept. 29, with a panel discussion on Sept. 24.
A workshop—Discover the History of Your Home—that teaches participants how to research the provenance of a house or commercial building.
