San Diego Architectural Foundation

The San Diego Architectural Foundation wasfounded in 1980, the result of a gift from Ed & Barbara Malone. They gifted a residential lot in La Jolla, California, with the condition that a foundation be formed for the advancement of architecture in San Diego. Since then, the SDAF has realized the following accomplishments:

• In 1990, SDAF underwrote the San Diego Museum of Art's exhibition "In the Realm of Ideas." Dedicated to the legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright, this exhibit featured the full-scale reconstruction

  Barbara & Ed Malone

  of a Wright "Usonian" house in Balboa Park.
   
• In 2003, SDAF was the springboard for the formulation of the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA). A unique collaboration with the Salk Institute and other research organizations, ANFA is dedicated to investigating the relationship between brain functions and how we experience the built environment.
   
• In 2003, SDAF published its first book, the award-winning San Diego Architecture. A 350 page, full color, 700 building guide to the architecture of the San Diego region, San Diego Architecture is in its second printing, and a downtown edition was also published.
   
• The annual presentation of the Steven C. Ladislaus Memorial Scholarship has awarded scholarships to twenty-four recipients from nine different schools of architecture since its 1985 inception.
   
• SDAF is partner and fiscal agent to the Lumberman’s Competition, a design competition offering students the opportunity to design a project using wood products as the main building material.
   
• In 2004, SDAF re-strategized and became a public membership organization, and embraced an updated mission: Dedicated to education, and the promotion of outstanding architecture, planning and urban design throughout the San Diego region.
   
• In 2005 SDAF, previously housed within the American Institute of Architects' San Diego Chapter offices, struck out on its own, and has been an independant-yet-collaborative organziation ever since.