Tour of Northeast Waterfront Historic District starting from Levi’s plaza and ending at Broadway Cove & 735 Davis. Located along the Embarcadero and adjacent to the historic Telegraph Hill neighborhood, Broadway Cove will provide 125 affordable family units, helping to protect some of San Francisco’s most vulnerable citizens from displacement. The ground floor provides community spaces, commercial space, a YMCA childcare center, live-work flats, and a public mid-block passage that will enrich and serve the larger neighborhood.

For nearly a decade, the Nolli Walking Tour has provided Bay Area residents and visitors alike a pathway through San Francisco’s public and semi-public spaces of past and present. Inspired by Giambattista Nolli’s innovative 1748 map of Rome, the Nolli walking tour engages the public with urban environs that go beyond sidewalks and streets.

This 90-minute walking tour will start at Mission Creek in the Mission Bay neighborhood and end at Pier 40. You will enjoy walking through past and recent San Francisco waterfront developments such as Mission Rock, Oracle Park, and South Beach Harbor. Along the way, you'll take part in insightful discussions on comparable international waterfronts led by knowledgeable international architects. There will be a 30-minute optional networking get together at Franks Java Hut following the tour.

Findings from National Register nomination for the Maya Angelou National Historic District, based on a joint effort by the Western Addition Branch Library and the African-American Art & Culture Complex to determine the sites of significance to the Queen of Pan Africanism, Marguerite Johnson, who wrote seven autobiographies as Maya Angelou, five of them largely set in San Francisco.

Whether your company is remote, hybrid or in person, there is still a fundamental need for in-person human connection and creative collaboration at work. Join a panel discussion with clients, architects and real estate professionals and learn how three companies have shifted their work environments post covid: Thumbtack (all remote with global libraries), Argonaut and Playstudios (hybrid).

Centrally located near multiple transit stops, HomeRise is designed to architecturally integrate into the evolving neighborhood. It combines healthy, welcoming, and supportive housing (140 studio apartments) with 24-hour reception, indoor and outdoor tenant community spaces and onsite services to support residents progressing into housing stability. The exterior design responds to the evolution of the neighborhood from industrial to residential use. The design of the central garden courtyard recalls the original natural bay landscape and includes a mid-block community garden for use by residents and the neighbors.

Illuminate led the charge to transform 1.5 miles on JFK Promenade in Golden Gate Park from feeling like a place for people first rather than a road for cars upon which pedestrians and cyclists were allowed to pass. We accomplished this in record time, in a matter of weeks, demonstrating new levels of urban possibility.

The Eichler Homes crystallize both the cultural values and the experimental strategies that helped redefine the American landscape during the postwar decades. Remarkable for the impressive quality of the houses and neighborhoods, the very process of their design, production, and marketing stands apart from almost all contemporaneous developments of their class. You'll find essential lessons here in the balance of respect for the nuanced rituals of everyday life with ingenious ways to economize suburban comforts for a larger public. You'll leave with a new understanding of how this parity can spur alternatives and adaptations for communities today.

For nearly a decade, the Nolli Walking Tour has provided Bay Area residents and visitors alike a pathway through San Francisco’s public and semi-public spaces of past and present. Inspired by Giambattista Nolli’s innovative 1748 map of Rome, the Nolli walking tour engages the public with urban environs that go beyond sidewalks and streets.

Old money heirs share fences with newly minted tech billionaires in Pacific Heights, arguably one of San Francisco’s toniest and most exclusive neighborhoods. Atop a hill with majestic views, the area’s towering mansions were a manifestation of Victorian excess and a key part of the Gold Coast’s development. After the 1906 earthquake, homeless quake refugees provided the moneyed residents a different sort of neighbor. You’re as likely to run into a celebrity resident as a diplomat visiting one of the manses-turned-consulates.

Imagine visiting San Francisco without sailing on the Bay — this tour will be the highlight of your Architecture + The City Festival experience!
This three-hour, water-based workshop aboard a charter sailing yacht will survey a host of new waterfront projects. Boarding at Pier 40, you'll see the South Beach Yacht Harbor, Treasure Island, the new floating fire fireboat station No. 35, the renovated historic Ferry Building and renowned waterfront destinations including Pier 27 Cruise ship terminal, Fisherman's Wharf, Hyde Street Pier, Fort Mason, Marina District, Aquatic Park, Crissy Field, and Presidio Tunnel Top Park — with amazing views of the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz!

Topped by one of the highest domes in the world, a four-story, 500,000 sq. ft. structure takes up two full city blocks. Its gold-leaf embellished dome hearkens to the dome of Les Invalides in Paris. This tour will illuminate San Francisco City Hall as anchor of an awe-inspiring Beaux-Arts composition that includes the 1912 San Francisco Civic Center—home to esteemed cultural performance institutions such as the San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Symphony—the Asian Art Museum, Herbst Theater, Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, and the San Francisco Public Library.

Hop on your bicycles, scooters, or BayWheels to tour some recent high-density, mixed-income, mixed-use developments with David Baker, FAIA. We’ll visit five projects, comprising 1,700 homes, 400 of them affordable. You’ll see Mason on Mariposa, Potrero 1010, and 855 Brannan—market-rate communities that integrate new homes and businesses, provide public open space, promote neighborhood connectivity, and bring sensitive density to the Potrero Hill and SOMA neighborhoods, as well as Tahanan, the latter a new modular supportive housing project with an innovative financing model. You’ll finish the relatively flat nearly-three-mile ride at Five88, workforce housing in Mission Bay, adjacent to SPARK Social SF, a perfect place to grab a snack.

Join tour leader John Templeton on an interpretive experience and learn more about National Register nominations. Identify the centrality of African Americans in San Francisco to the reunification of the United States after the Civil War; understand the development of popular Black music, literature, and public art; and contextualize the end of Jim Crowism, colonialism, and apartheid as it relates to the area. Templeton will lead attendees to seek out the work of African American craftsmen, builders, and architects; discuss the architecture of Black churches; and show how to preserve African American historic communities while preserving Black ownership and entrepreneurship.

Chronic homelessness in San Francisco has reached a crisis point . This project's daunting mission: to address, and begin to solve homelessness through pioneering program convergence while enhancing the neighborhood experience. The solution weaves design with multi-layered programs and services to create a broad safety net, lifting people out of homelessness into permanent housing with social and health services and job training under one roof while creating interconnectivity and improved livability in the neighborhood. The site is located at the intersection of two historic yet troubled neighborhoods: The Tenderloin and SOMA. Here, numerous people live on the street, suffer from mental illness, use drugs openly and fall victim to violence. Government buildings, high tech start-ups and luxury condos also inhabit the neighborhood making for a challenging mix.