Tom DeCaigny, Director of Cultural Affairs at the City and County of San Francisco says he knows this place. He and I are standing in front of a life size mural photograph on canvas depicting a forested and theatrically lit night scene. In the image, a small sign stands at the base of a dirt path that leads into a dense and naturalistic planting of camellia and pines. > Read More
Amy Ress is a designer and writer in the fields of public interest design and the arts. > Read More
For the past few decades, Market Street has been an illogical disconnect in San Francisco, where the confluence of its not-quite-intersecting streets and abrupt diagonal grid shifts have evolved radically different but adjacent streetscapes. > Read More
I like projects that teach me things I never expected to learn.
When the economy melted in 2008, I realized that I could take a rest from my practice’s residential focus. The downturn called for something different. I had time to look at what was happening around me. I had done movie projects before, so I found myself with an impulse to make documentaries on architectural subjects. > Read More
Glenn Lym grew up in the Berkeley flatlands next to the house his grandfather built in the 1910’s. > Read More
As an architect, it is impossible to predict what the future holds for one’s projects and sometimes it is better not to try. > Read More
The view walking along Bush Street towards downtown San Francisco recalls the exaggerated perspective of a Wayne Thiebaud painting. The sharp crest of the hill forces the gaze forward and down, revealing the urban fabric below where Manifest Destiny! — a19th-century, smaller than life-size cabin—adheres like a barnacle to the blank façade of 453 Bush Street, three and one half stories up. > Read More
Donna Schumacher is the founder and creative director of Donna Schumacher Architecture, which specializes in creative commercial and residential spaces in San Francisco. > Read More
I recently had an opportunity to install a mural for the Cindy Sherman exhibition at SFMOMA, currently on view through October 8, 2012. > Read More
Sabrina Brennan was born in New Orleans and grew up on the Gulf Coast. In 1993 she relocated to Northern California after receiving a BFA in Photography from the Atlanta College of Art. Since then, she has developed a strong affinity for the San Mateo County coast, where she lives in Moss Beach with her wife, Aimee Luthringer, to whom she was married in June 2007. > Read More
My introduction to Iwan Baan came from a friend, the architect Koji Tsutsui. Based in San Francisco, he’s not yet on the A-list of Pritzker Prize winners and other luminaries with which Baan is usually associated. So sought after that he turns down 90 percent of the inquiries he receives, Baan tracked Tsutsui down after seeing a competition-winning AIDS health clinic he designed in Africa, one of several he’d photographed. What else have you got, he asked? > Read More
Paul Jamtgaard is a registered architect and urban designer with over 18 years of varied experience creating award winning projects in the US and abroad. He works extensively on projects in the public interest including libraries, community & recreation centers and public spaces. > Read More
Enrico Moretti’s new book about where knowledge industries cluster has implications for the economic future of all cities, and the future of their built environments. > Read More
Andrew Faulkner reports on a recent brainstorming session that anticipates the upcoming Urban Protoyping: San Francisco festival. > Read More
Andrew Faulkner is an urban and architectural designer with a focus on sustainable urbanism and infrastructure. > Read More
This work of fiction was written for TraceSF by the artist Kari Marboe. The piece focuses on a couple at the beginning of their relationship and follows them through their process of adding to San Francisco’s archaeological memory. > Read More
Kari Marboe is a text-based visual artist who received her Master of Fine Arts from UC Berkeley in 2012 and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from California College of the Arts in 2008. > Read More
On May 27, the tranquil beauty of the Bay and the grace of the Golden Gate Bridge were rocked by a spectacle of pyrotechnics and light to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the bridge. > Read More
John Cary is a connector, curator, writer, and speaker. Among other roles, he is the co-lead of The City 2.0, the 2012 TED Prize. He divides his time between San Francisco and New York.
Flection, a group exhibit at Hedge Gallery through September 1st, explores the fold in abstract art. > Read More