San Diego Architectural Foundation

Thanks very much to all who participated, presented, performed and attended our Global PechaKucha for Haiti event on Saturday, February 20. We raised over $1500 for Architecture For Humanity's Haiti Earthquake Rebuild effort - more than most cities taking part in the global event!! 
  
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While some argue that the heyday of international style modernism in the 1930s failed to change European political futures, and others wonder aloud why US post-war modernity failed to usher in real social change in America, most of us agree that post-modernism answered few grand, macro-level, questions about our culture. But what is happening in Kuwait, Cairo and Dubai, all incubators for leading-edge contemporary architecture, may cause future sociologists and cultural anthropologists to take stock of design amidst real cultural upheaval. Read more »

One of our favorite listening experiences is the Los Angeles based NPR radio show DnA: Design and Architecture, during which host Frances Anderton talks to world leaders in design about the latest in products, fashion, graphics, architecture and more.
     
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PKN for Haiti Flyer

In a November 2009 New York Times update on the reconstruction of New Orleans' Katrina-devastated Lower Ninth Ward, Cultured Traveler writer Fred A. Bernstein describes the complications of good intentions. While Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation has done what appears to be a unanimously commendable job of rebuilding, the writer (and some of his interviewees) take issue with what is going up.

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Join SDAF for the debut of year #2 of San Diego's Pecha Kucha Night! V5 will be held at El Camino II , 2400 India Street (between Kalmia and Laurel Streets - formerly the Airport Lounge). Thinking and drinking begin when you arrive, presentations at 8:20.

Welcome to the new and improved SDAF website! With its launch, we’re excited to introduce enhanced features including this blog; new, user-friendly membership software; and an event calendar, which we’ll use to keep you in the know about any and all San Diego design-related goings-on about town, and then some!

And now, in the spirit of new beginnings, we’ll start with a look back...

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