Urban Re:Interventions explores perspectives on the urban environment through the lens of architects, designers, landscape architects and urban guerillas. From small scale moments at the street level to large scale imagineering of the city of San Francisco as a whole, the exhibition will re-envision how awkward spaces can be made beautiful. Participating artists were asked to answer questions such as “What annoys you about San Francisco’s streetscape?” “If you could remake your neighborhood where would you start?” “How could you connect the city to disengaged communities and/or individuals?” and “What are you already doing to improve your local environment?“

The exhibition features work by Shift Design Studio, 450 Architects, CMG Landscape Architecture, Gelfand Partners Architects, Activist Architecture and the Vapor Advanced Interdisciplinary Studio at CCA, grey.studio, among others.

Urban Re:Interventions has been made possible in part by the Graham Foundation.

Oakland's Margarido House is the first custom home in Northern California to be slated for LEED-H platinum status, and the first home in the country to be both LEED-H certified and GreenPoint Rated. This home is a showcase for great ideas and cutting edge design. During the festival Opening Night Party, when the exhibition opens, you can mingle with developer and Margarido house owner Mike McDonald to talk about the design and construction of this extraordinary home. McDonald will be joined by representatives from area partners who contributed to the project, including Heath Ceramics, Concrete Works, Traywick Contemporary and Chris French Metal. For more information please visit www.margaridohouse.com.

 

This exhibition presents a complex portrait of America's most spectacular urban environment — and fastest growing city — through the juxtaposition of two recent films: Olivo Barbieri's site specific_Las Vegas 05 and Stephen Dean's No More Bets. Barbieri films Las Vegas from a helicopter, using a tilt-focus lens that renders objects out of scale, transforming the city's iconic landmarks into toy-like simulacra. Beginning in the desert, emphasizing the city's isolation as well as its antipathy for empty spaces and blank surfaces; Barbieri's camera travels along the outskirts of the city before arriving at its pulsating nerve center, the Las Vegas Strip. In No More Bets, Dean homes in on the luminous and colorful signs, screens, and surfaces that make up Las Vegas, abstracting the visual excess and revealing beautiful, unexpected patterns within the city’s semiotic jumble. The two works will be shown on opposing walls, sequentially.

 

With construction of the museum's new 14,400-square-foot Rooftop Garden currently under way, this exhibition offers visitors an experiential glimpse of SFMOMA's expansion. A horizontal projection on the second-floor landing mimics the span of windows that will overlook the completed garden from the fifth-floor galleries, transforming an opaque wall into a virtual portal. The projection, conceived by Rooftop Garden architect Mark Jensen, paints an atmospheric portrait of the nascent outdoor space, conjuring specific visual elements related to the design as well as abstract suggestions of the changing seasons, weather, and hourly light that will influence the mood in the garden.

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