Events August 6 - August 12, 2007

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Register for any of the following events at rsvp@aiasf.org (unless otherwise noted).

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August Tour Series

Join us for the unique opportunity to get a sneak peak of some of San Francisco's new and emerging buildings from an architectural perspective. Accompanied by the building's design team, participants receive a guided behind the scenes look of these innovative spaces. Tours are scheduled throughout the month of August. This week's tours include:

Yoshi’s Jazz Club
August 8, 3:00 - 5:00 pm
1300 Eddy Street, San Francisco
$10 Members; $20 Nonmembers

Yoshi's is bringing Jazz back to the Fillmore. Join us for a tour of the new 28,000 square feet venue that will occupy the ground floor of the Fillmore Heritage Center.

The John C. Spencer House: A Historic Queen Anne Residence
August 9, 6:00 - 7:00 pm
1080 Haight Street, San Francisco
$10 Members; $20 Nonmembers

Christopher Yerke of Restoration Workshop will host the tour of this historic home. Chris, a master woodworker, lead the restoration effort on the Spencer House.

View calendar for dates, times, and admission prices for all tours. Space is limited and is first come, first serve. Reserve your space at www.aiasf.org/registration!

OPENING PARTY
August 31, 6:00-9:30 pm, Free
Dzine, 128 Utah Street, San Francisco
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 2007 San Francisco Living: Home Tours weekend and will have a chance to participate in the world's 1st Live Architecture Competition hosted by the Open Architecture Network and Architecture for Humanity.
Sponsored by Architecture for Humanity, Dwell, Dzine, KQED, 7x7, SKYY90.

San Francisco Living: Home Tours Weekend
September 15-16, 2007 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Tickets now on sale. Purchase tickets HERE.

The popular San Francisco Living: Home Tours weekend is the first tour series of its kind in the Bay Area to promote a wide variety of architectural styles, neighborhoods, and residences--all from the architect's point of view. The annual program provides design enthusiasts and the general public with an inside look into the world of distinctive residences in San Francisco. Each great project is showcased with its designer(s) via an "open house" format, and tour participants have the opportunity to see some of the city's latest residential projects from the inside out, meet with project designers, explore housing trends, and discover design solutions that inspire unique San Francisco living.

BEHIND THE SCENES TOURS
South Park Architectural Firms Open House 
September 7, 4:00 – 6:00 pm, Free, RSVP Required
Step inside almost a dozen of San Francisco’s thriving architectural practices located within walking distance of one another in the South Park neighborhood. Firms Aidlin Darling Design, David Baker + Partners Architects, Zack/de Vito Architecture, Sand Studios, WRNS Studios, Van Meter Williams Pollack, Levy Design Partners, and more open their studios for tours, informal presentations and cocktails.

GREEN TOURS
Commercial Green Building Tours and Open Houses
Every Thursday, 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Individual Tours at 3:00 pm and 4:00 pm Free (2 LUs per day)
RSVP to SFGreenBuilding.events@sfgov.org the Tuesday prior to the tour. 
This series provides tour goers an opportunity to learn more about the architectural features, construction techniques and green materials essential to green building. Meet the professionals behind the design, construction and maintenance of these projects. Registration, confirmation and directions provided upon registration.

September 6: Beverly Prior Architects, New Resource Bank, Orchard Garden Hotel
September 13: Chong and Partners, Knoll Furniture Showroom, Swinerton, WRNS Architecture
September 27: Beverly Prior Architects, Glumac, Thoreau Center for Sustainability, Waldorf School

Sponsored by the Department of the Environment and the Center for Creative Land Recycling

EXHIBITIONS
STREET CRED San Francisco: Architecture and the Pedestrian Experience
Part of the SKYY90 Diamond Design Series
September 6-October 26, 2007
AIA San Francisco and Center for Architecture + Design Gallery
130 Sutter Street, Suite 600, San Francisco
STREET CRED features approximately fifteen of the city’s new and upcoming projects, and examines the strategies used by designers to encourage streetlife and enhance the pedestrian experience. The exhibition includes new buildings by Arquitectonica, envelopeA+D, and Morphosis; a fantastical “Streetscape of the Future” proposal by a group of local artists and designers; and video podcasts by Andrew Blum and Rebar.
Curated by Darrin Alfred, Assistant Curator, Architecture and Design, SFMOMA and Julie Kim, Writer, William Stout Publishers. Sponsored by Handel Architects

SPECIAL DESIGN EVENTS
Park(ing) Day
September 21
Visit www.parkingday.org for more information.
REBAR, Public Architecture, and The Trust for Public Land invite you to rethink the way streets are used, consider the need for urban parks, reclaim the streets for bikes and people, and expand the public realm by creating new opportunities for social exchanges. Park(ing) Day is the brainchild of a San Francisco-based arts group called "REBAR," which opened eyes worldwide in 2005 by transforming a metered parking spot into a park. In 2006, with support from The Trust for Public Land, REBAR built upon this groundswell of interest and created an international event with 47 parks in 13 cities worldwide, including New York, London, and Rio de Janeiro. This year's event will expand on these past successes and take this event to the next level. Through linking the temporary interventions Park(ing) Day with the permanent transformations of Public Architecture's Sidewalk Plazas, this one-day event will become a vehicle for lasting change.

BECOME AN OFFICIAL SPONSOR
Sponsors receive invaluable exposure to both our members and members of the public interested in architecture and design, as well as significant exposure from the design and mainstream press who cover our work. Download the 2007 Sponsorship Kit or contact Graziela Camacho, Sponsorship + Design Coordinator.

Programming Sponsorship for the festival is now closed. For more general information on the 2007 festival, visit www.aiasf.org/archandcity or contact Erin Cullerton, Assistant Director + Festival Curator.

Exhibition in the Gallery...

Light + Air: Two Public Artists Work with Architects, the Elements and Each Other
July 12 - August 24, 2007

Curators
Erin Cullerton and Rich Newirth

Sponsored by
AIA Redwood Empire, New Lab, San Francisco Arts Commission, SKYY90 and Specialty Finishes