Urban Re:Interventions
On View August 25th Through October 24th, 2008
AIA San Francisco, 130 Sutter Street, Suite 600, San Francisco
Urban Re:Interventions explores perspectives on the urban environment through the lens of architects, designers, landscape architects and urban guerillas. From small scale moments at the street level to large scale imagineering of the city of San Francisco as a whole, the exhibition will re-envision how awkward spaces can be made beautiful.
Participating artists were asked to answer questions such as “What annoys you about San Francisco’s streetscape?” “If you could remake your neighborhood where would you start?” “How could you connect the city to disengaged communities and/or individuals?” and “What are you already doing to improve your local environment?“
JURY
Byron Kuth, FAIA, LEED AP, Kuth/Ranieri Architects
Allison Arieff, former Editor in Chief of Dwell magazine, Editor at Large, Sunset magazine
John Kriken, FAIA, AICP, Consulting Partner, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Exhibition Participants
Urban Re:Interventions Participants
See all of the participants' projects in this PDF.
Individual Projects Listed below:
Panhandle Band Shell
CMG Landscape Architecture, with Finch Mob, Rebar, and many dedicated community members
Boulevard Inverted: Urban Performance Module
Mixology Architecture, Jef Biesinger
Brainwash
CMG Landscape Architecture
Crystallized Dance
Gisela Schmoll
De-Paving
Shift Design Studio
Distributed Ecologies
grey.studio, Robert Shepherd
Endangered Species
Todd Gilens
Fillmore Streetscape
Michael Willis Architects
Forage San Francisco/Oakland
Asiya Wadud
Reading Conventions: Geary Boulevard at Jones Street, San Francisco
Julie Cloutier
Green Roof Bus Shelter Demonstration Project
450 Architects
Lilienthal Green Schoolyard
Bill McLeod
Looking Infrastructure
UIIIO, Urban Imaging + Interface + Information Office
Mint Plaza
CMG Landscape Architecture
Mission Street Neighborhood Planning
Gelfand Partners Architects
Mission Street Neighborhood Planning
Gelfand Partners Architects
Pothole Gardens
Vapor Advanced Interdisciplinary Studio/CCA
Street Redesign
Shift Design Studio
Urban Swings
Activist Architecture, Yes Duffy
Visual Voice
Activist Architecture, Yes Duffy
Closing Reception
Thursday, October 23
5:30 pm Reception; 6:30 pm Conversations with Artists
RSVP at www.aiasf.org/registration
Join us for a closing night of conversation with some of the participating artists in discussion about their projects featured in Urban Re:Interventions.
Urban Re:Interventions explores perspectives on the urban environment through the lens of architects, designers, landscape architects and urban guerillas. From small scale moments at the street level to large scale imagineering of the city of San Francisco as a whole, the exhibition will re-envision how awkward spaces can be made beautiful.
Participating artists were asked to answer questions such as “What annoys you about San Francisco’s streetscape?” “If you could remake your neighborhood where would you start?” “How could you connect the city to disengaged communities and/or individuals?” and “What are you already doing to improve your local environment?“
The exhibition features work by Shift Design Studio, 450 Architects, CMG Landscape Architecture, Gelfand Partners Architects, Activist Architecture and the Vapor Advanced Interdisciplinary Studio at CCA, grey.studio, among others. Urban Re:Interventions has been made possible in part by the Graham Foundation.
