2025 AIASF Architects Forum
Explore the 2025 AIASF Home Tours, and Ask the Architects!
Ever wondered what it takes to design your own home? Or how architects in San Francisco balance creativity, client needs, and complex zoning requirements? The Architects Forum is your chance to step inside the design process and connect directly with the architects and contributors behind the 2025 AIASF Home Tours.
This interactive event brings the city’s leading designers face-to-face with the public. Architects will be stationed at their own stalls, ready to answer your questions about the homes on display—covering everything from home renovations, ADUs, and adaptive reuse projects to the realities of permitting and construction in San Francisco.
Join us and get to know the creatives behind out 2025 homes! Enjoy drinks and light snacks as you move through the space, strike up conversations with fellow design enthusiasts, and network with architects, homeowners, and members of San Francisco’s vibrant architecture community.
Whether you’re dreaming of building or remodeling your own home, curious about sustainable design solutions, or simply want to learn more about how great architecture happens, the Architects Forum offers a rare opportunity to engage in open dialogue, make new connections, and be inspired by the people shaping San Francisco’s built environment.
Felix Associates - Grandmother's House
Felix Associates is a full-service architecture studio led by registered architects Julianne Chou and Jeff Marsch. They are based in Mount Maunganui, New Zealand working on projects throughout Aotearoa and their home state of California, USA.
Building on both their practical experience (architecture + construction) and impractical experience (art + philosophy), they set up Felix Associates to help people solve spatial problems within their means and create beautiful places that, they hope, give them little moments of joy every day.
At the moment their work is largely focused on family housing in the form of small-scale renovations, additions, and infill buildings in urban and densifying suburban areas.
Y.A. Studio - Haight Street Affordable Housing
Y.A.'s practice thrives on collaboration, support, energy, and engagement. With projects that vary widely in type, scale, and budget, we actively reflect that diversity in both their team and their collective experiences. Their staff is made up of professionals with backgrounds in fine arts, graphic design, historic preservation, and photography, drawing from a variety of cultural heritages.
Outside of work, they are equally passionate about community involvement, whether traveling to new cities, raising families, exploring landscapes, or engaging in activities like climbing, hockey, soccer, swimming, and hiking. From volunteering with local non-profits to tasting new foods, they believe these shared experiences enhance their teamwork and creativity.
Manon Paquet - Hayes Valley all Electric House
Manon is an architect based in San Francisco — originally from France, trained in Montreal, and licensed in California. Her multicultural background gives her a broad perspective and a flexible, intuitive approach to design.
Her career began in commercial development and urban design, but in the past few years she has shifted to focus on residential architecture. Her hands on experience on job sites and remodeling her own home, featured on the tours this year inspired her to connect more directly with homeowners.
Manon has felt a growing responsibility in tackling the housing crisis, and has worked on 250+ ADUs in her career, in an effort to densify under-zoned neighborhoods around the bay area. Working with the belief that we need to build better, Manon fully electrified her own home in experimentation, and she is continuing to learn about passive house design, low-impact construction and how to bring climate conscious choices into every project
Manon likes to weave warmth, calm, functionality and playfulness into a minimalist European aesthetic, bringing in color, texture and art wherever she can! she also sews, weaves and makes rugs - influencing the way she thinks about materials and technical details.
Gast Architects - Eureka Valley Home
Gast Architects is a San Francisco–based practice dedicated to designing timeless, sustainable homes through a collaborative and client-focused process. Founded in 1980, the firm specializes in custom residences and renovations, from contemporary solutions to the restoration and adaptation of historic properties. With several LEED Accredited Professionals on staff, sustainable strategies are central to the firm’s design philosophy.
Their portfolio ranges from country estates and urban whole-house renovations to modest additions and remodels. Skilled at working with existing structures, Gast Architects embraces both the challenges and opportunities of adaptive reuse. Longstanding relationships with contractors, craftspeople, and consultants ensure effective collaboration and high-quality results.
With decades of experience, the firm is adept at guiding projects through local Planning and Building approvals, commissions, and review panels. While rooted in the Bay Area, their work extends across California and to New York, Oregon, Montana, and Wyoming.
Following a leadership transition begun in 2019, Principals Dennis Budd, Matt Williams, and Eric Hartz now lead the firm, with Founding Principal David Gast continuing as advisor. Gast Architects is a signatory of the AIA 2030 Commitment and an active participant in the San Francisco Green Business program.
Blue Truck Studio - The Banks Street Residence
Blue Truck Studio is an architecture practice with a nerdy personality and an uncommon way of working.
Founded in 2003 by Peter Liang on the values of collaboration, craft, and sustainability, it is a small and attentive firm interested in creating intentional spaces that reflect the distinct narratives of the people who inhabit them.
The studio focuses on just a few projects at a time, each with a dedication to minimalist forms, thoughtful details, and elegant design solutions. They believe in creating long-lasting architecture that is socially and environmentally responsible.
Clients can expect Blue Truck Studio to bring both a passion for creativity and a uniquely deep experience in construction to find the right combination of inspiration and reality for each project. Clients should also expect to bring your culture and values — the stories the firm builds are founded on yours!
Based in San Francisco, Blue Truck Studio has crafted projects throughout California and beyond. The team especially loves residential architecture because of its intimate scale. Blue Truck Studio's work has received recognition from the American Institute of Architects, Dwell Magazine, California Home + Design, Houzz, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
SCB is an architecture, planning, interior and urban design firm. Founded in 1931, SCB provides design services from Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, and Los Angeles.
Since its inception, a strong current of innovation has run through SCB. The design legacy born of their bold and visionary founders continues today through a talented, diverse, and creative community of colleagues, each dedicated to their craft and creating better places.
Lincoln Lighthill Architect- Liberty Street Redux
Lincoln Lighthill Architect (LLA) is a full-service architectural firm based in Mill Valley, just north of San Francisco where the firm was founded in 2015. They have designed a wide range of residential, commercial, arts, institutional, and food service projects locally and internationally, consistently taking on new challenges.
LLA works at the intersection of modernism, sustainability, and healthy building design. Their approach is modernist, the firm views each project with fresh eyes, creating inventive solutions that are both functional and aesthetically enduring. Environmental impact is considered at every scale, the firm prioritizes healthy living through the materials and systems they specify, the attention to natural and artificial lighting, and much more. This approach yields exponential benefits for their clients and the broader community – good for our minds, hearts, bodies and the planet.
Listening is a key part of LLA's process. Their wide range of work fosters a curiosity about what is exceptional and most important in every project, and their clients’ unique needs and desires inspire original, inventive solutions that are uniquely tailored to them.
Red Dot Studio is an intellectually curious, multidisciplinary design studio that blends the Bay Area Tradition, a love of craft, and inspiration from the natural world to create residential and community projects that feel alive, considered, and uniquely human. At the Architects Forum, you’ll have the chance to speak directly with the designers about their approach to renovations, new homes, and community spaces that respond thoughtfully to both client needs and the environment.
Join us to explore the process behind their designs, ask questions about materials, sustainability, and spatial storytelling, and see how simplicity—a red dot—can guide complex design challenges.
Whether planning your next project or simply curious about design, Red Dot Studio is excited to show how we create meaningful spaces that evolve in balance with families, communities, and the natural world.
Established in 1994, Kerman Morris Architects is a small, woman-owned business recognized by the City and County of San Francisco as a Green Business.
The firm brings a deep commitment to excellence in design and creating responsive, well-crafted places for living and working. Their practice specializes in a range of residential developments, including infill housing, affordable housing, custom homes, and mixed-use projects, and we develop projects as well.
Jeff & Leo Miller - 2 Chains House
Father and son Jeff and Leo Miller are not an architecture firm. The 2 Chains House is the first ground-up residence designed and built by the family. Drawing on their professional experience as landscape architects and greater bay area community of craftsmen and tradespeople, the project defies professional and cost constraints, exemplifying a rare DIY spirit in modern home building. Salvaged lumber, ‘open-box’ appliances, second-hand fixtures, and humble, readily available materials were put to work replacing a standalone garage next door to the family’s primary house. The owner/designer/builder approach results in a home that is aggressively resourceful, personal, and quietly radical.
Jeffrey Miller, ASLA, LEED AP is the principal and founder of Miller Company, a licensed landscape architect and landscape contractor with over 40 years of experience designing and building in the bay area. Under his leadership Miller Company is engaged with campus master planning for corporate and educational environments, urban park planning and design, multi-family urban housing. He is recognized as a leader and expert in the realm of green schoolyard design and development.
Leo Miller is also a licensed landscape architect whose design work has transformed multiple urban parks, playgrounds and gardens into valued community assets, often tied directly to local material, social and ecological histories. Since completing the 2 Chains House, Leo works as a general contractor with Devlin/McNally Construction, building homes in San Francisco.
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