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The Architecture of Patronage, Part I: From Institution to Avant-Garde

Toward the end of Michelangelo Antonioni’s film The Night (1962), there is a conversation between the writer Giovanni Pontano (played...
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Patrons and Architects: the Perfect Couple

Money and Architecture make a most durable marriage, despite the crisis of such a venerable institution in the Western World....
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Patronage: Editor’s Comment

Twenty years ago, I got a job teaching architecture at Rhode Island School of Design. The previous year, RISD’s architecture...
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Architecture Editor makes it into “The Paris Review Roundup”

On Jun. 7, AIACC Editor-at-Large, Tim Culvahouse, FAIA, was reprinted in The Paris Review Roundup, an email newsletter sent to...
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Faith & Loss: Editor’s Comment

As we began to prepare for this issue, I corresponded with my oldest childhood friend, back in Tennessee: Tom Gibson,...
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Coda: 1 Kearny Street, San Francisco

1 Kearny Street, San Francisco Office of Charles F. Bloszies, AIA The 1902 Mutual Savings Bank Building, by William Curlett,...
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. . . and Counting

NIMBY acronyms NIMTOO Not in my term of office LULU’s Locally unaccepted land uses NIABY Not in anybody’s backyard NIMBL...
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Design Guideline Guidelines

In 2004-5, I volunteered to sit on San Mateo County’s Planning and Building Task Force. I was invited to join...
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Gems of the City: S.F.’s Top 25

Put any group of 20 architects in a room and ask them to choose the buildings in their city that...
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Book Review: Our Valley. Our Choice.

Our Valley. Our Choice. Building a Livable Future for the San Joaquin Valley Great Valley Center, 2007, Heyday Books. OK,...
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Under the Radar: East Oakland School of the Arts

East Oakland School of the Arts, Oakland Stoner Meek Architecture and Urban Design, San Francisco East Oakland School of the...
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Sand Hill Road: Property Values and Architectural Controls

Elsewhere in this issue, historian David Gebhard describes how the appreciation of aesthetic character and historically significant environments led to...
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Editorial Board, 2019-2024

Shannon Calder
Lucy Campbell, MLIS
Leigh Christy, FAIA
Anne Cotter, AIA
Tim Culvahouse, FAIA, Editor
Nicki Dennis Stephens, Hon. AIA
Andres Diaz, AIA
Wyatt Frantom, FAIA

 

Alan Hess
Lisa Matthiessen, FAIA
Ian Merker, AIA
Mark Miller, FAIA
Tibby Rothman, Hon. AIA|LA
Simon Sadler, PhD
Maxine Ward, AIA

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