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Shape Your City
Enhancing public engagement with Bay Area architecture and its built environment
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Shape Your City
Making the Bay Area a better place to live, work, and visit
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Shape Your City
Showcasing the impact of great design in our daily lives and environment
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Shape Your City
Celebrating the Bay Area’s pioneering and creative spirit
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Shape Your City
Strengthening the Bay Area’s vibrant urban fabric
Shape Your City
The Shape Your City Campaign was launched to help build the Bay Area’s new Center for Architecture + Design and fund expanded architecture and design-focused tours, exhibitions, lectures, youth programs, and other special events for people of all ages.
This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to inspire community engagement in architecture, design, and the built environment and create an equitable, sustainable, and beautiful Bay Area where everyone thrives.
Why is AIA San Francisco expanding the Center?
For over 140 years, AIASF has continually adapted to keep pace with San Francisco’s innovative and competitive environment by rethinking our programming, expenses, and services. This resilient spirit is what keeps us relevant to the community we serve.
To meet the demand for expanded programs and help solve the pressing issues we face in our city, AIASF and the Center for Architecture + Design — (AIASF’s philanthropic arm) — must grow beyond our current capacity and become more accessible to serve our diverse community.
An important step towards achieving this vision is building a cultural hub for all things architecture and design; a place to connect, learn, collaborate, and celebrate.
Resources
Two Ways to Shape Your City
The 140 Fund
Help AIASF build the Center for Architecture + Design
Contributions may be deductible as trade or business expenses.
Expand the Center's Programs
Help grow the Center's educational and program offerings
Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
A New Hub for all Things Architecture + Design
AIASF is working with Aidlin Darling Design and a talented team of collaborators from across the Bay Area to build a cultural destination on the ground floor space of the historic Hallidie Building. The new Center for Architecture + Design will be a global nexus for designers to discuss and disseminate design's potential to solve the environmental and social problems facing our community and planet. The Center's bookstore, gallery, and lecture halls will further fill the Bay Area’s critical need for public design education.
Together, with the support of our community, we have the opportunity to create an enduring hub dedicated to inspiring, educating, and engaging audiences of all ages to discover design’s power to improve the quality of our everyday lives.
“Rigorous design, at all scales, is not only exciting but desperately needed. We have a rare opportunity to create a public space that will inspire our community through visual media, as well as the written and spoken word.”
– Joshua Aidlin, FAIA
Founding Partner at Aidlin Darling Design
The Future of Architecture — The Center’s Story
Industry leaders, community advocates, and AIA members share why they believe the new Center for Architecture + Design will make a lasting impact on our community.
“The street-level presence will welcome the community to participate in the future thinking of cities and places that are economically vibrant, culturally diverse, and distinctively healthier and more resilient.”
- Kamala Subbarayan, Google, Inc.
Board President, Center for Architecture + Design
Watch the Testimonials
Thank You to Shape Your City Supporters
Forming a more accessible, expanded Center has been a project many years in the making. This expansion process would not be possible without the leadership and generosity of AIA members, industry allies, and individual donors.
Over $3MM has been raised so far through in-kind contributions from generous donations. AIASF still needs to raise nearly $4MM to cover the construction costs.
Aidlin Darling Design
BCCI Construction
AR Green, LEED Consulting
Atelier 10
Clearstory
Murphy Burr Curry
NG Associates
PAE Engineers
Salter, Inc
Solomon Cordwell Buenz
The Preview Group
Tucci Lighting
Bruce Albert, AIA – Management
Chris Downey, Architecture for the Blind
David Hecht, AIA – Tannerhecht
Design Agency Co – PR
HOK – FF & E-Procurement
Richard Barnes – Photographer
Ryan Bukco – Art
Studio Hinrichs – Identity + Branding
Tamsin Orion – Filmmaker
Acousthetics
Acoustical Interiors
Amerlux
Arborica
Archoustics West & LogiSon Acoustic Network
Architectural Components Group, Inc
Architectural Enclosures
Armstrong Ceiling & Wall Solutions
BKF As-Built Scanning
BCDVideo
Boxcabco
Build Group
California Accent Lighting, Inc.
CAL Lighting
Canvas
C.E. Toland
CMG Premier
Commercial Casework
Complete Drywall
Concreteworks
Cooper Lighting
CRI-SF
Daltile
dHive
DPW Inc.
Eaton Electrical
First Last and Always
Flex Lighting
Genetec
Geopogo
Golden State Lumber
Habitat Horticulture
HALO
Hilti North America
IAC Acoustics
Innovative Mechanical
Insight Lighting
Interlux
Kinetics Noise Control
Legrand
Leviton
Magic Leap
Majestic Floors
Martin Brattrud
MechoShade Systems
Meyer Sound
Mission Bell
Mohawk Industries
Monticelli Painting
NEC
Netgear
Osram & Encelium Extend
Pagnini Electric
RE Edwards
Rockwool
RS Analysis
Sherwin Williams
Sloan
Somfy Systems, Inc
Space Theory, a HenryBuilt Co.
Stewart Film Screen
Syserco
Tannerhecht
Terra Visual
TURF
Yellow Goat Design
Young Electric
Carla + Paul Cooper, AIA
Chiu Lin Tse-Chan, FAIA
David Baker Architects
David G. Fong, FAIA
Francesca Razzano Oliveira, AIA
HDR
Michael Hennessey Architecture
Peter Noone, AIA
Roderick Wyllie
Studio Perez
XL Construction
Architectural Resources Group
AT6 Design Build
Cameron McAllister Group
Carrie Byles, FAIA
Clark Manus, FAIA
Cooritalia
David Baker, FAIA
Derek Parker, FAIA
Ellen Lou, FAIA
Forell/Elsesser Engineers, Inc.
Gregory Mottola, FAIA
Jeffrey Heller, FAIA
Joel Tomei, FAIA
Kang Kiang, FAIA
Mark Jensen, FAIA
Nick Noyes, FAIA
Panafold
Paul Adamson, FAIA
Paulett Taggart, FAIA
Peter Pfau, FAIA
Robert Herman, FAIA
Stanford Hughes, FAIA
Stanley Lew, AIA
Sylvia Kwan, FAIA
The Shalleck Collaborative, Inc.
Thomas Braham, FAIA
Tim Culvahouse, FAIA
Yakuh Askew, AIA
Thanks to everyone who donated!
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The Architect's Newspaper
AIA San Francisco reveals its new headquarters at the historic Hallidie Building
Shape Your City!
This is the moment to contribute.
AIASF needs your help, now more than ever, to take this crucial leap into the future to meet the demand for expanded public programs and engagement in the community.
Have questions about this campaign? Please contact us sponsorship@aiasf.org.
The 140 Fund
Help build the Center for Architecture + Design
Contributions may be deductible as trade or business expenses.
Expand the Center's Programs
Help grow the Center's educational and program offerings
Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Join the Campaign and help build the Bay Area’s future Center for Architecture + Design.
Donate to expand the Center's educational and program offerings. Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.