The annual series of events includes performances, panels, parties and home visits in the greater San Francisco area
After a month of activity, the AIA SF's annual event Architecture + The City Festival completed its 16th year last week. Themed "We the City," programming ranged from panel discussions with designers to excursions to opulent hill houses and showcases from prominent Bay Area artists.
In the full list of go-ons, nothing proved more popular than the Home Tour component, sponsored this year by Room & Board, which showcased five unique and modern residences in various neighborhoods throughout San Francisco. Included in the tour was a pre-1930s warehouse on Natoma Street that transformed architectural firm MAK Studios into a modern, versatile residence and working space. Rodgers Architecture showcased its Eureka Valley home, showing how the firm was able to update a traditional residence for 21st century urbanites, with open space and a three-story floating stairway. Other homes by Winder Gibson Architects, Schwartz & Architecture and studio Sarah Wilmer Architecture helped to highlight the city's contemporary leanings.
Meanwhile, the author series explored San Francisco's changing landscape through restrained lectures. On September 25, an audience was heard from San Francisco-based architect and teacher Pierluigi Serreno, who traced the history of 20th-century modern American architecture, as seen through the eyes of the great photographer Ezra Stoller.
Throughout the month, visitors had access to the festival's gallery exhibition, dubbed "We the City" at the Center for Architecture + Design Gallery. Here, guests can see works by local artists such as Thomas Henser, David Irwin, Heinrich Kama and others. Accelerating the performance, an immersion element allowed people to send in photographs of themselves to be used as part of a larger installment on locals in the forest.
As one of the country's largest chapters of the AIA, the AIASF represents 2,300 practicing architects and members in the region, which has made the Architecture + City Festival more exciting. It was an opportunity to "bring the community together to explore an interdisciplinary design approach," according to Stacey Williams, interim executive director of AAASF. And those meetings of mind are more important today, keeping in mind the issues surrounding San Francisco's built environment.
After a month of activity, the AIA SF's annual event Architecture + The City Festival completed its 16th year last week. Themed "We the City," programming ranged from panel discussions with designers to excursions to opulent hill houses and showcases from prominent Bay Area artists.
In the full list of go-ons, nothing proved more popular than the Home Tour component, sponsored this year by Room & Board, which showcased five unique and modern residences in various neighborhoods throughout San Francisco. Included in the tour was a pre-1930s warehouse on Natoma Street that transformed architectural firm MAK Studios into a modern, versatile residence and working space. Rodgers Architecture showcased its Eureka Valley home, showing how the firm was able to update a traditional residence for 21st century urbanites, with open space and a three-story floating stairway. Other homes by Winder Gibson Architects, Schwartz & Architecture and studio Sarah Wilmer Architecture helped to highlight the city's contemporary leanings.
Meanwhile, the author series explored San Francisco's changing landscape through restrained lectures. On September 25, an audience was heard from San Francisco-based architect and teacher Pierluigi Serreno, who traced the history of 20th-century modern American architecture, as seen through the eyes of the great photographer Ezra Stoller.
Throughout the month, visitors had access to the festival's gallery exhibition, dubbed "We the City" at the Center for Architecture + Design Gallery. Here, guests can see works by local artists such as Thomas Henser, David Irwin, Heinrich Kama and others. Accelerating the performance, an immersion element allowed people to send in photographs of themselves to be used as part of a larger installment on locals in the forest.
As one of the country's largest chapters of the AIA, the AIASF represents 2,300 practicing architects and members in the region, which has made the Architecture + City Festival more exciting. It was an opportunity to "bring the community together to explore an interdisciplinary design approach," according to Stacey Williams, interim executive director of AAASF. And those meetings of mind are more important today, keeping in mind the issues surrounding San Francisco's built environment.