From superblocks to revamped office and industrial spaces to new structures that combine supportive and market-rate housing, home takes on a whole new meaning in the 21st century.
At once history lesson and labor of love, this book explores how 1960s Boston came to be a showcase of unapologetic, often superscaled masonry modernism.
At once history lesson and labor of love, this book explores how 1960s Boston came to be a showcase of unapologetic, often superscaled masonry modernism.
During any given week, I’m told, 100 or more design buffs take self-guided tours of the San Francisco Federal Building (SFFB) by Pritzker Prize'winning architect Thom Mayne.
At a time when the notion of omniscient master architects is seen by many critics as passé, a day-long design conference in San Francisco suggested that the concept remains in vogue with the wider public.
When architect John Galen Howard mapped a Beaux-Arts plan for the University of California, Berkeley campus in the early 20th century, one of the first buildings erected in its spirit was Durant Hall—a two-story steel-framed structure completed in 1911 and wrapped in granite along classical lines.
Bay Area architects see their affordable housing work as part of a long tradition of progressive culture and urbanism. That concern can spawn buildings where the aesthetic goal is to fade into the background—as is the case with many San Francisco affordable-housing projects from the 1980s and ’90s. Now, especially in more transitional districts, there’s a desire to make a splash, not just among bureaucrats or architects, but nonprofit developers who often represent a new generation of decision-makers. Photo ''Brian Rose One of Baker’s frequent clients is Citizens Housing Corporation, a 16-year-old company that has 23 complexes in the Bay
High-profile buildings by big names aside, new buildings in San Francisco and the Bay Area tend to be nondescript—especially the infill housing projects that often look like nothing so much as interchangeable product wrapped in unimaginative garb.