PARTY

Architecture and the City Launch Party!
September 1, 5:30-9:30 pm, Free
Zinc Details, 2410 California Street, San Francisco
RSVP required. Please RSVP here or call 415.362.7397.
Our opening night party salutes the participating organizations, sponsors and diverse audience of architects, designers and design enthusiasts who make Architecture and the City possible. Attendees will get a glimpse of the homes showcased on the 2006 San Francisco Living: Home Tours weekend and one-of-a-kind visual display and free product giveaway by Kartell!
Sponsored by 7x7 magazine, Kartell, Zinc Details and Pearl Vodka.

ARCHITECTURAL TOURS

HOME TOURS

San Francisco Living: Home Tours Weekend ( 5 LUs)
September 16-17, 11:00 am-4:00 pm, $50 one day (per person); $90 two days (per person); $65 day-of tickets purchased after September 15 (per person); 25% discount for AIA San Francisco, San Francisco Design Center and A+D Forum members, students, and groups of six or more.  
Visit www.aiasf.org/hometours for more information.
This popular weekend showcases modernism at its finest and features a wide variety of architectural styles, neighborhoods and residences, including state-of-the-art single-family homes in Russian Hill, Noe Valley, and the Panhandle; architect/developer multi-family homes in Potrero Hill and South of Market; and an affordable housing development in the Tenderloin. Participating firms include Aidlin Darling Design, Charlie Barnett Associates, David Baker + Partners, Architects, Feldman Architecture, John Maniscalco Architecture, Kuth/Ranieri Architects, Nilus Designs, Paulett Taggart Architects, Stanley Saitowitz|Natoma Architects, Inc., and Terry & Terry Architecture.

At the Home Tours Headquarters participants can purchase or pick up tickets, view exceptional examples of modern prefab and more at the Dwell on Design Conference and Exhibition, and auction on exclusive goods from Design Within Reach, Heath Ceramics and Paxton Gate.

The Headquarters is open Friday, September 15 through Sunday, September 17, 10:00-4:00 pm and located at the Dwell on Design Conference and Exhibition at the Concourse Exhibition Center, 635 8th Street (at Brannan), San Francisco.  (www.dwell.com/dwellondesign)

Sponsored by A+D Forum, City CarShare, DWR, Dwell, Heath Ceramics, Paxton Gate, San Francisco Design Center, SFMOMA, San Francisco and Ty Nant

WALKING TOURS

City Beautiful & the Civic Center
September 2, 1:30 pm (2 LUs)
Offering a comprehensive exploration of the Civic Center Historic District—one of the finest ensembles of Beaux Arts architecture in America—this tour explores why that style prevails there, and also covers local artworks.

A Walk Along Broadway
September 9, 1:30 pm (2 LUs)
This tour covers a number of Victorian styles of houses along Broadway (including the “Mrs. Doubtfire” house) and numerous stunning Classical Revival buildings, including two of Silver King James Flood’s former mansions.
 
Beyond Union Street: A Walk Through Cow Hollow
September 16, 1:30 (2 LUs)
Explore the early years of Cow Hollow through the distinctive architecture of the neighborhood—from the early dairy farms, Victorian houses and mansions to the grand art deco apartment buildings that replaced them.

Walk the Fire Line: Van Ness Avenue
September 23, 1:30 pm (2 LUs)
Visit the 1906 fire line and compare the post-1906 architecture along Van Ness Avenue with the few outstanding pre-quake survivors. This tour addresses how the area, after the earthquake and fire, evolved from being a grand residential boulevard to a high-style commercial row created to showcase that latest of modern conveniences: the automobile.

All Walking Tours Sponsored by San Francisco Architectural Heritage

Ticket information: $8 general admission; $5 for seniors & children 12 and under; free to SF Heritage members. Visit www.sfheritage.org or call 415.441.3000 for tour start point information.

BEHIND THE SCENES TOURS

Sustainable Tours of AIA San Francisco and Center for Architecture + Design New Home
September 5, 12, 19, 26, 5:30 pm (1 HSW) Free
AIA San Francisco, 130 Sutter Street, Suite 600
RSVP Required. Please RSVP to rsvp@aiasf.org or 415.362.7397
With its innovative sustainable features and way-finding systems, AIA San Francisco’s new home marks a new era for the organization. Who better than chief architect, Fred Quezada, AIA, to provide an insider’s perspective on the new home’s key architectural elements. Open to AIA San Francisco members only; officially opening to the public on October 3, 10:30 am.

Inside the Ballpark: An Architectural Tour of AT&T Park
September 22, 2:00 pm, (2 HSWs), $65 for members, students and seniors; $75 general admission.
TO PURCHASE TICKETS, CLICK HERE
AT&T Park (formerly SBC Park and Pacific Bell Park) has become a mainstay in San Francisco’s architectural community since its inception in 2000. Home to the San Francisco Giants and setting for various concerts and events, AT&T Park was the first privately-financed major league ballpark to be built in 38 years. Located in the revitalized China Basin/Mission Bay districts, the ballpark combines the nostalgia of Wrigley Field and Fenway Park with the modern amenities of contemporary sports. From the field to the dugout, this exclusive HOK-guided tour will offer behind-the-scenes perspectives of the making of a San Francisco landmark.
Sponsored by HOK and San Francisco Giants

San Francisco to Italy: Step Inside the 2006 Venice Biennale
September 19, 4:00 pm (1 LU) Free
Eight Inc., 675 California Street, San Francisco 
September 22, 4:00 pm (1 LU) Free
Anderson Anderson Architecture, 90 Tehama Street, San Francisco
San Francisco firms Anderson Anderson Architecture and Eight Inc’s winning designs for Architectural Record and Tulane University School of Architecture’s “Katrina Design Competition: High Density on the High Ground” are the focus of the US Pavilion at the 2006 Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy. Taking place from September 10-November 19, the Venice Biennale is heralded as one of the world’s premier architectural events. Each firm opens their studios to discuss the principles of sustainability and high density urban planning featured in their winning designs.
Sponsored by Anderson Anderson Architecture and Eight Inc.

Exploring Mission Bay
September 23, 11:00 am-1:30 pm (2.5 LUs) $10 members; $25 nonmembers
Tour start point: Mission Bay Visitors Center, 255 Channel Street, San Francisco
TO PURCHASE TICKETS, CLICK HERE
Offering a comprehensive look at the new 303-acre neighborhood known as Mission Bay, bounded by Townsend Street on the north, San Francisco Bay on the east, Mariposa Street on the south and 7th Street on the west, this tour looks at the accomplished architecture and art taking shape here. Officially sanctioned as a neighborhood in 1998 by the Board of Supervisors, Mission Bay is set to become a bustling San Francisco neighborhood. Tour features the Mission Bay Visitors Center, designed by SMWM and the new UCSF Mission Bay campus, where architectural works by Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects and Legorreta Architects and sculptural works by Richard Serra and others, will be discussed, plus more. Tour led by Linda Sobuta, AIA, of SMWM and representatives of UCSF Mission Bay.
Sponsored by SMWM and UCSF

FILM SERIES

All screenings each Wednesday in September, 6:00 pm, Free
Seating is limited and admission is on a first come, first serve basis.
San Francisco Main Library, Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin Street

Celebrate the relationship between architecture and celluloid by viewing classic, contemporary and documentary films that spotlight the built environment, the architectural and design professions and the ever-mythical architect’s ego. Curated by Bill Basquin of Film Arts Foundation.

September 6: Experimental Architecture: A Shorts Program
These experimental shorts exploit the unique relationship between art, architecture and the human experience of our ever-changing, always-present built environment. They capture everything from explosive musings on the San Francisco Bay Bridge and the city’s infamous and often harrowing SROs, to unexpected public artworks such as homes made from salvaged materials to cornfields that sprout from nowhere.

Alloy, Phoebe Tooke (2 min)
Continuum, Dominic Angerame (15 min)
Hotel City, Phoebe Tooke (10 min)
Not a Cornfield, Not a Cornfield Project (10 min)
ScrapHouse, Peter Hyoguchi (5 min)
Shipyard, Peter Hyoguchi (5 min)
Suspended #2, Amy Hicks (4 min)
Upheaval,Trina Lopez (4 min)

Followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.

September 13: ScrapHouse
Can a beautiful house be built and furnished using only scrap, salvage and trash? A San Francisco team took on the challenge to find out. In six weeks they built and furnished an entire house using nothing new. ScrapHouse was built as part of UN World Environment Day in June 2005 and was conceived by Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker Anna Fitch of Building 39 Films. Fitch captures the volatile, playful and unpredictable process in ScrapHouse.

This screening is a special sneak preview. ScrapHouse premieres on the National Geographic Channel September 18 at 7:00 and 10:00 pm PT. Strand: A Natural History of Cinema by Christian Bruno screens before ScrapHouse.

Followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.

September 20: Strangers When We Meet
Spirited architect Larry Coe (Kirk Douglas) has been hired by novelist Roger Alter (played by the late television comic Ernie Kovacs in a rare dramatic role) to build a house befitting his self-image as a convention-breaking malcontent. Though he has a wife and family, he becomes embroiled in an affair with beautiful Maggie Gault (Kim Novak), a neighbor with her own family. The two lovers are forced to face the choice between love and loyalty.

September 27: Desert Utopia: Mid-century Architecture in Palm Springs
This revealing documentary by filmmaker Jake Gorst takes a look at mid-twentieth-century architecture in and around Palm Springs, Calif. It showcases the creative postwar era architecture and some of the famed architects (John Lautner, Richard Neutra, R. M. Schindler) and prolific regional architects (William F. Cody, Albert Frey, Donald Wexler, E. Stewart Williams, William Krisel) whose homes and buildings make up the largest concentration of important mid-century modern architecture in the United States today. This is a special rough cut screening before the official release in November 2006.

The Film Series is sponsored by Film Arts Foundation and the San Francisco Public Library 
 
LECTURES

Clever Design, Affordable Comfort: A challenge for low energy architecture and urban planning
September 7, 7:30-9:00 am, (1.5 LUs) Free
swissnex, 730 Montgomery Street, San Francisco
This breakfast video-conference with Geneva, Switzerland is held in collaboration with PLEA 2006: Passive & Low Energy Architecture (www.plea2006.com) and features a case studies roundtable on theory to practice with local and international architects and planners. Invited speakers include Thomas Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Mario Cucinella, Bureau Baumschlager-Eberle, Paula Cadima, Alexandros Tombazis, and others.
Sponsored by swissnex.

The Life and Work of Isamu Noguchi
September 7, 6:00-9:00 pm, (2 LUs) Free
Zinc Details, 2410 California Street, San Francisco
Doug De Nicola of The Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, New York discusses the life and work of Isamu Noguchi—one of the twentieth century's most important and critically acclaimed artists. De Nicola covers Noguchi’s considerable influence and speaks to his ability to influence modern day design and designers.
Sponsored by Zinc Details

Building Your Dream Home with an Architect Series
September 9, 1:00 pm $!5, includes admission to the  Western Interiors Design and Home Show, www.westerninteriorhomeshow.com
Concourse Exhibition Center, 635 8th Street (at Brannan), San Francisco
September 23, 2:00 pm Free, Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco
Architects are specially educated to help you define what you want to build, present options you might never have considered and help you get the most for your valuable investment. This informative series, which takes place just after the popular Home Tours Weekend, provides anyone interested in working with an architect the opportunity to learn more about the building and construction process.

The Architect’s Forum
September 14, 5:30-7:30 pm, (2 LUs) Free Tour Participants; $20 Others
AIA San Francisco, 130 Sutter Street, Suite 600
TO PURCHASE TICKETS, CLICK HERE
During this educational panel, tour participants will learn more about the design, construction and overall costs related to the homes showcased in the 2006 San Francisco Living: Home Tours weekend. Followed by a cocktail reception sponsored by Dwell. 

Lebbeus Woods
September 14, 7:00 pm (2 LUs) Free
California College of the Arts, 1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco
Architect and theorist Lebbeus Woods explores new forms of space and energy that characterize contemporary society. Focusing on tenuous zones of geographic crisis, economic uncertainty, and social conflict, such as San Francisco, Havana, and Sarajevo, Woods’s provocative visions of possible realities make him one of the most imaginative and internationally respected architects practicing today. His wildly experimental theories and projects inspire architects, artists and students to reach beyond traditional limits of practicality to reconsider innovative means of understanding architecture’s relationship to the human condition.
Sponsored by California College of the Arts

Architect and Designer Face Off 
September 19, 6:00 pm, 7:30 pm cocktail reception, (2 LUs) Free
House of Mann, 1920 Bryant Street, San Francisco 
Ever wondered what really goes on between architects and interior designers behind closed doors? This frank conversation between several of San Francisco’s leading architects and interior designer’s promises to enlighten you on just that! Featuring architect Olle Lundberg, client and architect Charles Phan -- owner of The Slanted Door restaurant, designer Wendy Tsuji and client Mrs. Mauree Jan Perry. Moderated by Hanna Regev.
Sponsored by House of Mann with significant support from Hanna Regev

Designing for Singles: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know
September 21, 6:00-9:00 pm (2 LUs) Free
Dzine, 128 Utah Street, San Francisco
SOLD OUT!
For more information email info@dzinestore.com or call 415.674.9430.
Find out what makes designing the latest singles bar, hot restaurant or bachelor pad a challenge for even the most talented architects and designers. At this lecture and swinging cocktail party, you will spend an evening talking about some of San Francisco’s hottest spots and will have a chance to meet the designers and singles crowd who make them sizzle. Featuring frank conversations with Larissa Sand of Sand Studios, writer Deborah Bishop,  singles writer Jane Ganahl, Doug Washington, owner of Town Hall restaurant, and Laurie Thomas, owner of Terzo and Rose’s Café. Moderated by Cass Calder Smith of CCS Architecture.
Sponsored by CCS Architecture, Dzine and 7x7 magazine

Designing Beyond Green
September 26, 7:00-9:00 pm (2 HSWs) Free
Green Fusion, 14 Greenfield Avenue, San Anselmo 
RSVP directly to 415.454.0174 or for more information.
Leaders on the cutting edge in the green building industry discuss how to make our built environments greener, healthier and more alive. The panelists will examine where we are in the industry, where we are going and look into the true heart of what it means to build inspiring sustainable environments that reflect 21st century standards and goals. Panel includes Dr. Eugene Tsui, AIA, NCARB, APA, leader in Biomimcry; Anthony Bernheim, FAIA, principal of Green Design for SMWM; Kimberly Rider, interior designer, Greg Snowden, owner and founder of Green Fusion, among others. Panel hosted by Betsy Rosenberg, host of the radio show, EcoTalk.
Sponsored by Green Fusion and USGBC

How Architects Can Reverse Global Warming
September 28, 5:30 pm (2 HSWs) $10 AIA San Francisco Members; $20 Nonmembers
AIA San Francisco, 130 Sutter Street, Suite 600, San Francisco
TO PURCHASE TICKETS, CLICK HERE
Ed Mazria, AIA, believes architects must become leaders in the fight against global warming. His recently launched "Architecture 2030" (www.architecture2030.org) draws a connection between building design and global warming, with research indicating that building design and construction could have a greater effect on reversing global warming than any other industry sector. Considering this research, the AIA Board of Directors released a policy statement calling for a 50% reduction in use of fossil fuels for buildings in four years, with additional reductions leading to eventual carbon-neutrality by 2030. Mazria will present his vision for how to meet these goals.
Sponsored by Pacific Energy Center

EXHIBITIONS

Informing the Future
of Bay Area Architecture:
125 Years of Architectural
Traditions, Technology and Innovation
September 8-October 27
Opening Reception October 5, 5:30 pm 
AIA San Francisco/Center for Architecture + Design Gallery, 130 Sutter Street, Suite 600
The exhibition tells the history of San Francisco through its buildings. It highlights important architectural works in San Francisco and Marin county over the last 125 years through the trends and technologies that made them possible, from adobe to glass. Curated by Charles Chase of San Francisco Architectural Heritage with significant support from Architectural Resources Group Architects and Planners.
Opening Reception sponsored by California Home + Design, 7x7, Thirsty Bear, and Ty Nant Water.


Architecture In Perspective 20
September 1-30 / Opening Reception September 7, 5:30-7:30 pm
3A Garage Gallery, Mark Horton Architecture, 101 South Park, San Francisco
The American Society of Architectural Illustrators’ annual exhibition features work by Bay Area illustrators Robert Becker, Robert Frank, Anthony Grand, Michael Reardon, Michael Sechman, Peter Szasz, Art Zendarski and Hugh Ferriss Award winner Chris Grubbs.
Sponsored by American Society of Architectural Illustrators and EDAW

Exhibition of 2005 Small Firms, Great Projects Entries
September 11-22
University of California-Berkeley
Wurster Hall, First floor lobby
This exhibition highlights the varied architects and designers who participated in the 2005 Small Firms, Great Projects program. Project boards bring these remarkable homes, offices and public spaces to life, making it a must-see for anyone  embarking on a project of their own.

Wurster Hall Hours
Monday-Thursday: 9:00 am-9:00 pm
Friday: 9:00 am-5:00 pm
Saturday: 1:00-5:00 pm
Sunday: 1:00-7:00 pm

San Francisco Living 2006:
September 8-10
Western Interiors Design and Home Show
September 15-17
Dwell on Design Conference and Exhibition
Concourse Exhibition Center, 635 8th Street (at Brannan), San Francisco
Celebrating the 2006 San Francisco Living: Home Tours architects and homes, this exhibition takes an in-depth look at the unique residences featured on the tour—all from the architect’s point of view. View exceptional residential projects by Aidlin Darling Design, Charlie Barnett Associates, David Baker + Partners, Architects, Feldman Architecture, John Maniscalco Architecture, Kuth/Ranieri Architects, Nilus Designs, Paulett Taggart Architects, Stanley Saitowitz|Natoma Architects, Inc., and Terry & Terry Architecture.
 
SPECIAL EVENTS

Western Interiors Design and Home Show
September 8-10 Visit www.westerninteriorshomeshow.com for more information. CES Learning Units Available
This exclusive exhibition and sale features the finest new furniture and home accessories by the leading designers and companies in the nation. You can shop for the best in home design; discover the newest products and trends, and hear from experts, such as Martha Angus, Yves Béhar, Clodagh and others.


Dwell on Design Conference and Exhibition
September 15-17 Visit www.dwell.com/dwellondesign for more information. CES Learning Units Available
At this unique conference you will hear a variety of speakers discussing architecture through the lens of prefab, sustainability, affordability, and urban design. Speakers include Allison Arieff of Dwell, Jay Baldwin of Buckminster Fuller Institute, architect Chris Deam, architect Michelle Kaufmann, designer Rocio Romero, and others.


West Coast Green - Residential Green Building Conference + Expo
September 28-30 Visit www.westcoastgreen.com for more information. CES Learning Units Available
This conference and expo represents the largest milestone yet in the residential green building movement. It provides access to comprehensive state-of-the-art resources and features 250 exhibitors and 100 experts presenting their latest developments, insights, and inspiration on the expanding frontiers of the field.

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