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This year, the Architecture and the City festival theme will be “Future City.”
We will explore and reveal the many layers of San Francisco, and how architecture and design play a key role in the ever-changing urban landscape.

San Francisco is filled with many people on a daily basis—locals, residents, tourists, commuters, and homeless—each having their own perspective on San Francisco’s current state. Each group intimately understand their portion of the city, while other parts of the city remain hidden or tucked away from the casual observer—the secret city.

Programs will create opportunities to help impart and understand the city’s past and how we can seamlessly connect the present urban community to empower a more deliberate, livable future.

This year, the Architecture and the City festival theme will be “Future City.”
We will explore and reveal the many layers of San Francisco, and how architecture and design play a key role in the ever-changing urban landscape.

San Francisco is filled with many people on a daily basis—locals, residents, tourists, commuters, and homeless—each having their own perspective on San Francisco’s current state. Each group intimately understand their portion of the city, while other parts of the city remain hidden or tucked away from the casual observer—the secret city.

Programs will create opportunities to help impart and understand the city’s past and how we can seamlessly connect the present urban community to empower a more deliberate, livable future.

What We Do

The Center is where the design world of San Francisco meets. We host exhibitions and lectures on the interdisciplinary cross-section of architecture and design, as well as highly acclaimed programs such as Architecture + the City and San Francisco Living: Home Tours.

What We Do

The Center is where the design world of San Francisco meets. We host exhibitions and lectures on the interdisciplinary cross-section of architecture and design, as well as highly acclaimed programs such as Architecture + the City and San Francisco Living: Home Tours.

What We Do

The Center is where the design world of San Francisco meets. We host exhibitions and lectures on the interdisciplinary cross-section of architecture and design, as well as highly acclaimed programs such as Architecture + the City and San Francisco Living: Home Tours.

Past Exhibitions

BAUHAUS.PHOTO/10.10 - 11.8.19

On the 100-year anniversary of the Bauhaus school’s opening in Weimar, Germany, American Institute of Architects, San Francisco (AIASF), Center for Architecture + Design and the Museum of Craft and Design (MCD) presented bauhaus.photo, a traveling exhibition, developed by the Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, in partnership with the Goethe Institut San Francisco. bauhaus.photo presented100 key works from the world’s largest collection of Bauhaus photography.

ARCH + CITY FEST/8.29-9.30.19

AIASF and the Center for Architecture + Design San Francisco presented the “We the City” gallery exhibition. Featured works by local artists: ALEXANDMUSHI, Amos Goldbaum, Thomas Heinser, David Irwin, Henrik Kam, Andrew Li, Yolanda Ramirez, Roland Record, Lance Rivers, Francesca Saveri, Yon Sim, Clark Thenhaus, Monica Tiulescu, and Mahsa Vanaki. (Image: Eight + 2 Stories/Monica Tiulescu)

WHITNEY YOUNG JR./6.20-7.21.19

This compelling exhibition celebrated Whitney M. Young Jr. (July 31, 1921 – March 11, 1971), an American civil rights leader who spent most of his career working to end employment discrimination in the United States and turning the National Urban League from a relatively passive civil rights organization into one that aggressively worked for equitable access to socioeconomic opportunity for the historically disenfranchised.

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