upcoming EXHIBITIONS

Small Firms, Great Projects
August 27–October 23
Opening Reception September 3, 6:00 pm
AIA San Francisco/Center for Architecture + Design Gallery
130 Sutter Street, Suite 600, San Francisco

Ridge House © Sharon Risedorph

Celebrating exceptional Bay Area architecture, this exhibition showcases the innovative and award-winning work of local architecture and design professionals. Whether you are looking for an architect, or simply passionate about architecture, Small Firms, Great Projects is an invaluable resource. The exhibition introduces viewers to architecture and design firms experienced in a wide range of work, including new residences and remodels, commercial and retail spaces, educational, civic, institutional and religious projects, historic preservation, landscape and interior design.






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LOST!
August 31–September 4
3A Gallery, 101 South Park, San Francisco
Visit www.vmwp.com/lost.php for competition details.

© VMWP LLP

This exhibition offers the design enthusiast and public an inside look at the ‘unseen’ design process that goes on every day. Featuring the work of local design teams, LOST! showcases innovative project proposals that, for one reason or another, have gone unnoticed. The result of a competition run by Van Meter Williams Pollack LLP and juried by designers, city officials, press and development professionals, this exhibition represents winners among losers of past competitions and commissions. Winners of the competition will be announced September 18.




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OWA Women Architects: Building in the City
September 1–30
Opening Reception September 8, 6:00–9:00 pm
ARCH, 99 Missouri Street, San Francisco
Sponsored by ARCH Drafting Supplies, Barcelon & Jang Architecture


OWA Women Architects: Building in the City showcases a range of work by women design professionals in the Bay Area, highlighting their ongoing commitment to create and support sustainable design practices. The exhibition reveals specific sustainable design projects that reflect sensitive and elegant responses to a design problem. Furthermore, it reveals the community’s problem-solving challenges, highlighting the way creative designs are inspired responses in balance with nature and in harmony with the built environment.




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Sensate: Bodies and Design
Through November 8
SFMOMA, Phyllis Wattis Theater, 151 Third Street, San Francisco

P_Wall (detail) © Andrew Kudless

Mutant bodies, fictional bodies, animate architecture: these are among the provocations offered by Sensate, an exhibition that reflects recent debates about what bodies are and how they are met and mirrored by design. Works from the SFMOMA collection are joined by two large-scale installations fabricated especially for the exhibition. Andrew Kudless’s cast plaster P_Wall covers a 45-foot-long gallery wall, its bulbous, creased texture replacing the smooth surface with a decidedly different kind of skin. Alex Schweder’s A Sac of Rooms All Day Long is a massive, inflatable sculpture that begins as a heap of clear vinyl and, over the course of a day, slowly rises to assume the shape of two houses, one inside the belly of the other. The installations, alongside other works by artists, architects and designers, replace traditional references to the body with approaches that admit greater complexity, nuance and uncertainty.



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Agents of Change: Civic Idealism and the Making of San Francisco
Through November 15
SPUR Urban Center, 654 Mission Street, San Francisco

© San Francisco Chronicle

Through compelling content spanning a variety of media—historical maps, photographs, recorded interviews and an interactive multimedia installation—this major exhibition examines the history of citymaking in San Francisco, and challenges visitors to consider today’s urban issues in light of their own values. The story is told through the lens of history, and organized into six overlapping generations: The City Builders, The Progressives & Classicists, The Regionalists, The Moderns, The Contextualists and The Eco-Urbanists. Curated by Benjamin Grant, with exhibition design by Studio Terpeluk, graphics by Leon Yu and multimedia installation by Taco Lab.




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SPUR Urban Center Tour (1.5 SDs)
September 18, 3:00–5:00 pm
Free; Registration required.


Don’t miss the behind-the-scenes tour of SPUR with exhibition curator Benjamin Grant and Urban Center architect Peter Pfau, AIA. From the City Builders, to the Regionalists to the current movement of Eco-Urbanists, you will learn about the urban planning movements that have shaped San Francisco’s physical and social landscapes—and get an exclusive peek at the architectural and green building features of the new 14,500 square-foot SPUR Urban Center in the heart of the city’s bustling Yerba Buena Cultural District.












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