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Join AIA San Francisco and the Center for Architecture + Design to celebrate 10 years of Architecture and the City, starting this Friday, August 30 at our Opening Night Party. The nation’s largest festival of its kind, the Architecture and the City festival showcases the Bay Area's design talent and provides a forum to promote new ideas for innovative design and development. Whether you're looking to get involved with the local architecture community or simply want to discover more of the city's built environment, the festival will offer an unparalleled opportunity to experience San Francisco. Learn more about the festival exhibition, tours, lectures, films and other special events below.
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August 30, 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Join AIA San Francisco and the Center for Architecture + Design at Obscura Digital as we kick off the Architecture and the City festival with a salute to the many individuals and organizations that help make the month of celebration, exploration and inspiration possible. CADSF and The Seed Fund will also announce the winners of the inaugural Reimagine. Reconnect. Restore. What if 280 Came Down? competition.
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September 4, 3:00 – 5:00 pm | Register
EHDD Principal Marc L’Italien, FAIA and Dr. Kristina Woolsey, Exploratorium staff project director, will lead a tour of the new Exploratorium at Piers 15/17. Having outgrown its original home at the Palace of Fine Arts, the space is now almost three times larger than the PFA, and, with exhibit space highlighted by a glass-encased observatory, has unobstructed views of San Francisco Bay.
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September 6, 3:00 – 5:00 pm | Register
GLS Landscape | Architecture Principal Gary Strang will explain the process of converting formerly industrial piers into a new public plaza that unifies the entire waterfront with ticketed outdoor exhibit space, three new pedestrian bridges, and nearly 1/2 mile of new public promenades.
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September 3, 3:00 – 5:00 pm | Register
Explore the Mission's oldest and most intact Victorian streetscapes, lost railroad lines, horse racetracks, former stables and hidden creeks with Jonathan Lammers, an architectural historian who served as field survey coordinator for the South Mission Historic Resource Survey.
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September 10, 3:00 – 5:00 pm | Register
Architect David Winslow, of the San Francisco Planning Department, will show how thoughtful planning, urban design and architecture can work together to transform a neighborhood bisected by an elevated freeway into a high quality urban environment.
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September 3, 6:00 – 8:00 pm | Register
Jonathan Segal, FAIA redefines the role of the traditional architect by exclusively eliminating the client and developing, designing and constructing his own work. His firm is considered Downtown San Diego’s most successful and pioneering residential architectural and development company. Segal was awarded the 2013 Distinguished Architect Award from AIA California Council.
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September 5, 6:00 – 8:00 pm | Register
Join AIASF, the Center for Architecture + Design and PechaKucha SF for an evening with architects, designers, planners and developers as they present work related to the festival theme “Unbuilt San Francisco.†Confirmed speakers include Erik Altman (Steelblue), Craig Scott, AIA (IwamotoScott Architecture), Bryan Shiles, AIA (WRNS Studio), Jason Kelly Johnson (Future Cities Lab), and Elizabeth Ranieri, FAIA (Kuth Ranieri Architects).
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September 4, 5:30 pm | Register
Narrated by Frances McDormand, Rebels with a Cause is filmmakers Nancy Kelly and Kenji Yamamoto’s retelling of the story of the schemers and dreamers who fought to keep developers from taking over the breathtaking landscape of Point Reyes National Seashore and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
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September 11, 5:30 pm | Register
As recently as the 1980s, storefronts, murals, banners, barn signs, billboards, and even street signs were all hand-lettered with brush and paint. Though, like many skilled trades, the sign industry has been overrun by the techno-fueled promise of quicker and cheaper, there is a growing trend to seek out traditional sign painters and a renaissance in the trade.
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September 10, 6:00 - 9:00 pm | Register
What do you know about design, really? The first annual Who Designed That? is an interactive night of fun for design professionals from all industries. Following a game show format (think Family Feud meets Jeopardy), teams of 4-6 guests will test their knowledge of the design world and compete for the title of being San Francisco’s first BIG D Winner!
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September 12, 6:00 - 8:00 pm | Register
Join AIA San Francisco as we announce the winning projects of the 2013 Constructed Realities Design Awards program, as well as hear from Ogrydziak / Prillinger Architects and SOM sharing proposed solutions to some of the city’s most pressing issues at GOOD Design.
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September 8, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Families and youth of all ages will discover new ways to experience architecture at the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Whether you join us for an interactive art exploration of the Beyond Belief: 100 Years of the Spiritual in Modern Art exhibition; roll up your sleeves in the Young Architects Workshop; or join us for a game of "building charades"– you and your family will leave inspired by the art of architecture.
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September 15, 10:00 am
This interactive event, organized by Rosa Sheng, AIA, came from a desire to see families reconnect with each other and to encourage an "eye-opening" awareness of our physical environment. Each family will be provided with a list of architectural spaces or landscape elements to photograph. Photos can later be posted on a shared photo site, or feel free to post on Twitter or Instagram tagging @aiasf, @archandcity or #archandcity. Have fun spying on the city!
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On View August 15 - December 31
Grand Visions, part of an ambitious five-venue exhibition, is an opportunity to confront visions for the region that never came to pass as well as those that will, in time, have a major impact on the Bay Area. Images on view include Vincent Raney's designs for a United Nations Capitol building near Twin Peaks; EHDD Principal Marc L'Italien's renderings proposing the attachment of desalination stations to the Golden Gate Bridge; Fougeron Architecture's 'Cultivating the Urban Eutopia' (above); and more.
Unbuilt San Francisco is presented by AIA San Francisco, Center for Architecture + Design, Environmental Design Archives at UC Berkeley, California Historical Society, SPUR and the San Francisco Public Library. Image: Cultivating the Urban Eutopia, courtesy Fougeron Architecture.
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AIASF Board of Directors Call for Nominations
In accordance with the Bylaws of AIA San Francisco, we are delighted to announce the appointment of the following individuals to the AIASF Nominating Committee (for members of the Board of Directors to serve in 2014.)
Charles Chase, AIA, Chair
Frances Choun, AIA, Rose McNulty, AIA EB Min, AIA, Doug Tom, FAIA, Mike Yang, Assoc. AIA
This committee is charged with making recommendations of members to serve on the AIA San Francisco Board of Directors and the AIA California Council. Terms are generally two years. If you are interested in serving, please send your CV and a brief (100-200 word) piece explaining why you would like to serve. Email this information to Margie O’Driscoll, AIA San Francisco Exec. Director at: modriscoll@aiasf.org. Deadline: August 28 at 12:00 pm.
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August 29, 2013 6:00 - 8:00 pm | Register
Join Cary Bernstein, AIA (Cary Bernstein Architect), Eliza Hart, AIA (Hart Wright Architects), Tom McElroy, AIA (McElroy Architects), and Alex Bergtraun, AIA (Studio Bergtraun) for the August panel on Growing a Small Firm. Mark Cavagnero, FAIA will moderate.
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September 12, 6:30 - 8:30 pm | Register
NicholsBooth Architects is an association of architects, designers and specialists inspired to create environments with impact. Relying on artistic skill, keen understanding of building technology, and the human factors of design, they create architectural works that influence the lives of the people they service.
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Submissions Due October 1
Architecture at Zero is a zero net energy design competition open to students and professionals worldwide, engaging architecture, engineering, planning students and professionals in the pursuit of energy efficient design. The 2013 challenge is to create a design for a new, roughly 150 unit mixed-use residential apartment building located in the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco. Learn more.
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Raphael Sperry, president of Architects / Designers / Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR), was recently featured in an SFWeekly article, Punishment by Design: The Power of Architecture Over the Human Mind.
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Sperry and HMC Architects President Beverly Prior, FAIA were also featured on NPR's DnA: Design and Architecture on KCRW. The discussion, "Should Architects Design for Solitary Confinement?," is available on KCRW's website.
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EHDD's Katherine Miller and Phoebe Schenker have been promoted to senior associate. Brett Nelson, Lynne Riesselman, Lisa Wai, Eric Skiba and Alan Himuro have been promoted to associate at the firm.
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Feldman Architecture was recently profiled on Eco Building Pulse. Read the article here.
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Division1 Architects Achieves Award-Winning Designs with Vectorworks Software
Ever wonder how architectural firms develop their design philosophies and really get work done within the confines of their office spaces? Wonder no more as this brief video gives you a glimpse inside the creative minds at Division1 Architects (Washington, DC and New York, NY) and explores how team members continually evolve to keep their designs fresh. Then, after you watch the video, read more about Division1 and its use of Vectorworks Architect with Renderworks software on our Success Stories page.
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ADZE TEXTURED ARCHITECTURAL MILLWORK
Barker Manufacturing can add adze texture to any surface, whether wood, concrete, metal, or even glass. Visit Barker online for a catalog of our most popular textures - or they can create variations of these textures or even create completely custom textures to suit your project's needs. Barker can apply adze texture to doors, wall panels, columns, and other millwork.
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2013 TCAA/IMI Learning Exchange: Ventilated Facade Building Envelope Enclosure Systems
Monday, September 16
Westin St. Francis Hotel, 32 Floor | Map
A half-day seminar focused on the design and detailing of ventilated facades.
Schedule and Sessions | 11:30am Registration Opens | 12:00pm Lunch (limited seating - first come, first served!) Sponsored by Daltile | 1:30-2:30pm Designing and Detailing with Rain Screen Walls | 2:30-3:30pm Air/Vapor Barrier systems: Impact on performance of ventilated facades | 3:30-4:30pm Installation of Ventilated Facades | 4:30-5:30pm Tabletop reception
Each session qualifies for one hour of continuing education credit from AIA.
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