HERE is a series of video films that look at architecture from the perspective of the San Francisco Bay Area. Most episodes examine Bay Area buildings and landscapes. Some venture to other parts of America and beyond. The first three episodes are short - from 18 to 26 minutes. The later episodes…
A sampling of street life in the San Francisco western South of Market area in late 2017 & early 2018.
The story of my great grandparents' ranch created in the late 1800's in rural Dogpatch San Francisco
This City Hall was once San Francisco’s grandest building. It's collapse during the 1906 earthquake was attributed to political corruption. My examination suggests otherwise.
The erasure of the eastern end of the Great San Francisco Dune Fields to create the flat landscape of Market Street, South of Market, Mission District, South Beach, Financial District, Tenderloin and Union Square.
The personal residences of Bernard Maybeck, Frank Lloyd Wright, Philip Johnson, Thomas Jefferson and Frank Gehry with a contrasting look at the work of Louis Kahn.
Golden Gate Park as the construction of a San Francisco origin myth
Maybeck's five San Francisco houses constructed between 1909 to 1916
The opposition of two new museums in Golden Gate Park