Past Redux, Future Fixes As a child in a household of physicists and scientists, artist Andy Hope — whose show Yesterday’s Tomorrows is currently on view at the Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco …
By Zahid Sardar
No school could have been more intentional about building design than the California College of the Arts. The planning took years. Photos by Jason O'Rear It faced the formidable challenge of reimagining its century-old, …
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Pooling Resources Sometimes, a rekindled idea is simply another facet of sustainability. That happened two decades ago when San Francisco architect Olle Lundberg—renowned for creating striking steel, glass, and wood structures for high-profile clients …
What Shapes a Designer? Long before I knew what a designer was, I was a kid in my room painting, drawing, and building computers with my brothers. I didn’t know design could be a …
Spacial Recognition In response to humanity’s impact on the planet and the resulting climate change, San Francisco photographer Thomas Heinser appears to place people, places, and objects on the same conceptual plane—each struggling to …
Cast, Brazed, Hewn, Turned and Crafted The Elytron Lamp by Tuell & Reynolds — inspired by beetle wing cases— has a textured base of light, warm or dark bronze, as well as a warm …
Sausalito architect Luca Pignata’s Florentine education—steeped in the shadow of Renaissance and Medieval buildings—resurfaced unexpectedly when he began work on a pair of modernist villas for a family compound in the northern part of …
Excavations: Architect Nick Polansky Uses Waterjets for Art A decade ago, during an artist’s residency at Autodesk’s Pier 9 Workshop in San Francisco, MIT-educated architect Nick Polansky, 41, began exploring hardwood’s resilience when he …
By Zahid Sardar
About 15 years ago, Julie and Will Parish were looking to make a conservation purchase — of “land that needed love,” as she puts it — within an hour or two of their home …