Design: It’s About Time
September has been filled with events in San Francisco geared towards the Architecture and the City Festival put on by the American Institute of Architects San Francisco. Design: Its About Time was the keynote lecture that included a panel of Walter Hood of HOOD Design, Jane Martin, AIA of Shift Design Studio, and Phil Ginsburg of SF...
SMUD East Campus Operations Center
You might not know the acronym SMUD and thats fine. What you should know is SMUD (Sacramento Municipal Utilities District) is the 6th largest public utility in the country and currently has under-construction their East Campus Operations Center. The building is being developed to become the “nation’s largest, most sustainable fleet operations campus.” SMUD campus is making an effort...
City Beautiful Movement: Adapting to the Modern World – Part Three
In regards to developing the City Beautiful Movement in the new century and into the future, City Building: Nine Planning Principles for the Twenty-First Century, by John Lund Kriken, streamlines the main points in how to build cities more efficiently, sustainably, and beautifully. Simply highlighting the main points of the book, so for more in-depth...
City Beautiful Movement: Adapting to the Modern World – Part Two
Modern Cities, Modern People Picking up from Part One, the following are an amalgam of what I personally believe as aspects in applying the City Beautiful Movement to the twenty-first century: Sustainable initiatives like LEED have greatly improved quality of life and promoted social order in many facets of design and public wellness. It has informed the community...
City Beautiful Movement: Adapting to the Modern World – Part One
Originating from Daniel Burnham’s belief that city/urban planning should “promote a harmonious social order that would increase the quality of life,” the City Beautiful Movement spurred the grandeur and beauty of land planning, civic social order and architecture found in many American cities. Question is, how has this ideology changed in the modern world with...
California Academy of Science
Recently visited California Academy of Science in Golden Gate Park on one of their bi-annual free neighborhood events, and the following images document the visit. Enjoy! Also, coming soon is the museum’s Earthquake exhibit.
What SB 375 Means for California and the Greater Population
The California Environmental Protection Agency, more commonly known as the EPA, struck up Senate Bill 375 in 2008. Its purpose is to “enhance California’s ability to reach its AB 32 goals by promoting good planning with the goal of more sustainable communities”. You are probably thinking to yourself, well its California and that doesn’t apply to me....
Landscapes and Their Place In Film
Film is a powerful medium that can transcend a world’s perception and it details so elegant, and vividly. Sometimes we take for granted these environments, these landscapes that we become so attached to and cherish. The moving picture is an out of body experience, but when a film can achieve a strong connection between the...
Sutro Heights and Bath Ruins
Past and Present What was once a popular site for San Franciscans is still a popular site today. The Sutro Bath Ruins remain an artifact of the city’s hustle and bustle during the turn of the century when the baths were first opened in 1896. It was a great period in American innovation and design. ...
Defining Urban Landscapes
What determines an urban landscape? What are the physical, cultural, and perceptual qualities that characterize an urban landscape? Urban landscapes are dictated by the congregation of people in a living environment, interacting with one and other. These landscapes have characteristics, patterns, and form, which allow people within the urban landscape to portray physical, cultural, and...
Things On My Mind
This is an amalgam of many things that I have been thinking about but really haven’t had the chance to put it out there. There is no linear stream of consciousness here, just statements, concepts, and the hope for a better tomorrow. If people are not afraid of densification, it will thusly protect landscapes in...
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