NewSchool of Architecture & Design 1249 F Street, Downtown San Diego May 19th, 2018 @ 9:30 AM A thriving downtown does not happen overnight. The urban renewal of the Gaslamp Quarter and the creation of Horton Plaza, a colorful and exciting outdoor shopping mall designed by architect Jon Jerde were the catalysts for change. “Downtown” became [...]
Ken Baldwin Andy Darragh Ken Baldwin and Andy Darragh are architects with the firm Ferguson Pape Baldwin Architects. The firm thrives on designing places that inspire discovery of all kinds [...]
NewSchool of Architecture & Design 1249 F Street, Downtown San Diego April 21st @9:30 AM Patrick Caughey is the President and Principal of Wimmer Yamada and Caughey. Go anywhere in San Diego County and you will see the "magic" wrought by this firm established in 1954. The diversity of its projects is truly impressive. It handles [...]
NewSchool of Architecture & Design 1249 F Street, Downtown San Diego March 17th @9:30 AM The firm Ted Smith and Kathleen McCormick Smith and Others Architects is an alternative practice founded in 1973. Principals Ted Smith and Kathleen McCormick, who joined in 1981, have completed a wide range of unusual housing projects acting as developers, architects, [...]
Breaking from tradition at Friends of San Diego Architecture lectures---showing projects currently being worked on and promoting projects completed, Vicki Estrada instead will be looking back at projects completed, and discuss how they could have been designed differently, and importantly, what are the lessons that have or should have been learned. Vicki will focus on her [...]
Evolving Styles: A Dialogue with Hal Sadler & Keith York After graduating from Arizona State University and USC with degrees in architecture, Hal Sadler began working for A. Quincy Jones’ firm Jones & Emmons. In 1957, the young architect moved to San Diego to work for Richard George Wheeler & Associates. Together with architect Tom Tucker [...]
"Reality < an Idea" The philosophy of Wallace Cunningham is “open up a structure to sky, landscape, and view, and the building becomes alive. Create unconfined space and your soul will have a place to go.” It is a spiritual experience just to view the website of Wallace Cunningham and be immersed in light and shadow [...]
Post-Modernism: Everyone Visits San Diego Eventually We continue our series: The California-Panama Exposition Centennial Lectures - Part 4: Spanning the Oceans: A War Brings the World to Our Doors. Rob Wellington Quigley, FAIA, is no stranger to Friends of San Diego Architecture. He has spoken to our group twice and was one of our judges in [...]
The Landscape Architecture of the Exposition: 1914 Vicki is a landscape architect, an urban designer, and president of Estrada Land Planning. The firm’s mission is “to design spaces and modify the land in a creative and ecologically sound manner.” She believes that landscape architects “are uniquely qualified, among design professionals, to create design solutions that consider [...]
Searching for Logic April 20, 2012 Catherine Herbst, principal with Todd Rinehart in the San Diego architecture firm of Rinehart Herbst, will share with us her presentation that was enthusiastically received recently in Münster, Germany. "Searching for Logic" explains the philosophy behind her company's designs and includes many examples of the work that it has inspired. [...]