CURRENT EVENTS

FILM: San Francisco as Seen Through the Construction of Golden Gate Park: Two Film Documentaries
March 24, 2010 from 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
$15 AIA Members | $25 Nonmembers
AIA San Francisco 130 Sutter Street, Suite 600 San Francisco, CA
Must be 21 or older to attend.
Event co-sponsored with the Harvard Club of San Francisco.

Just as Gold Rush San Francisco developed its own amusement parks in the hinterland of the Mission District, several decades later, a growing San Francisco developed Golden Gate Park as an amusement destination driven by the economic and recreational interests of the upper class. The history of Golden Gate Park's construction can be seen as a clash between the City's elites and the idealism of the park's designers who held that their bucolic, natural vision of the park was for the benefit of all citizens.

Spurred by earthquake damage, two of the park's major building attractions have been rebuilt in the last decade—the De Young Museum and the California Academy of Sciences. These buildings have turned out fundamentally different from each other. What is the nature of these differences? Why might this have happened? How do these buildings use as well as give back to the park?

AIA San Francisco member and local architect Glenn Robert Lym, shows two of his recent short films on the history of the park and on the design of De Young Museum and the California Academy of Sciences.

Behind the Scenes Tour with the Exhibition Designers of the Global Lives Project + Tea with RonJon Tershay
March 27, 2010 from 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Free! Registration Required.
YBCA Galleries & Forum Building, 701 Mission Street, San Francisco

Join us for an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of the exhibition Global Lives, hosted by Sand Studios and FOURM design+build+educate. The tour will be followed by a unique tea ceremony from 2:00-6:00 pm with master tea connoisseur RonJon Tershay. Tershay will prepare and serve a variety of exotic and rare teas sourced from some of the locations depicted in the Global Lives Project video shoots. Drop in anytime for this site-specific treat!

Register at http://globallivestour.eventbrite.com.

SATURDAY MAY 15, 2010 | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
www.aiasf.org/hometours

AIA San Francisco’s popular Home Tours program is expanding to Marin. Don’t miss this chance to see a select number of modern residences open to the public for one day only.

As the first series of its kind in the Bay Area, the annual tours promote a wide variety of architectural styles, neighborhoods, and residences—all from the architect's point of view.

COMING SOON!
More information on showcased projects and how to purchase tickets.

The Marin Living: Home Tours program is an exclusive program of the Architecture and the City festival. The official festival celebrates architectural films, lectures, tours and more and takes place September 1-30, 2010. Programs also take place each month. Visit www.aiasf.org/archandcity for more information.