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architect in the community issue 07.2 architecture california the journal of the american institute of architects california council East Oakland School of the Arts Stoner Meek Architecture and Urban Design, architect DESIGNREVIEW: Let’s Talk The Community as Client The Rise of the Anti-Patron Confessions of a Design Reviewer 1964 Was Charles Moore, Now Is Now Tribal Council: a Survivor Interview Here’s How We Do It in San Francisco Sand Hill Road arcCA architect in the community issue 07.2 design review Content The Community as Client: 17 ➔ David Gebhard Architectural Review in America Design Review in San Francisco 21 ➔ John Schlesinger, AIA, David Prowler, and Owen Kennerly, AIA The Architecture of Patronage, Part II: 29 ➔ Mitchell Schwarzer The Rise of the Anti-Patron Confessions of a Design Reviewer: 33 ➔ Wendy Kohn Ten Guidelines for Coming Out as an Architect Survivor: 37 ➔ Kenneth Caldwell The Ultimate Design Review Process Sand Hill Road: Four Decades of Review 40 ➔ Tim Culvahouse, FAIA Under the Radar: 42 East Oakland School of the Arts Book Review: Our Valley. Our Choice. 44 ➔ Margit Aramburu Gems of the City: S.F.’s Top 25 47 ➔ John King Design Guidelines Guidelines 51 ➔ Ellis A. Schoichet, AIA 05 Comment 07 Contributors 08 Correspondence 63 ... and Counting 64 Coda 3 Cover photo: Dan Perez arcCA 07.2 arcCA, the journal of the American arcCA is published quarterly and distributed to AIACC members as part Editor Tim Culvahouse, FAIA of their membership dues. In addition, single copies and subscriptions Managing Editor Laura Schatzkin Institute of Architects California Culvahouse Consulting are available at the following rates: Group, Inc. Single copies: $6 AIA members; $9 non-members. Subscriptions (four issues per year): $24 AIA members; Council, is dedicated to exploring Editorial Board Paul Halajian, AIA Chair $15 students; $34 non-members, U.S.; $38 Canada; $42 foreign. 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Conrad, FAIA AIA Redwood Empire AIACC Staff Vice President of Cynthia Easton, AIA Peter G. Hendrickson, AIA Executive Vice President Communications/Public Affairs Michael F. Malinowski, AIA AIA Santa Barbara Paul W. Welch, Jr., Hon. AIA Nicholas D. Docous, AIA AIA East Bay Paul R. Zink, AIA Director of Marketing Executive Vice President Bonnie Blake-Drucker, AIA AIA Santa Clara Valley and Communications Paul W. Welch, Jr., Hon., AIA Anki A. Chen, AIA Thomas F. Horan, AIA Lori Reed 4 Comment Tribal Council = Design Review? A scene from Survivor, with San Francisco architect Sylvia Kwan, FAIA, second from left. Photo courtesy of CBS A year ago, for our second quarter “architect in the community” issue, we focused on Los Angeles, site of that A few corrections to 07.1, “Patronage”: year’s AIA National Convention. This year we focus on the Bay Area. The reason this time is not temporal but topi- On page 35, we misidentified Gruen Associates as the cal: this issue of arcCA is devoted to Design Review, a process for which San Francisco and surrounding communi- associate architect for the United States Courthouse in ties are noted—or, one might say, notorious. Fresno; they are, in fact, the executive architect. In this issue, you will find three perspectives on design review in San Francisco: a highly critical appraisal The Ontario Medical Office Building, shown on by development and planning consultant David Prowler (originally published in the newsletter of the San Francisco page 47, was designed not by HDR Architects, but by Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR), January 2007); a story of a series of design workshops pre- WWCOT, whose other work for Kaiser Ontario includes sented to the San Francisco Planning Commission on behalf of AIA San Francisco; and some encouraging front-line the master planning of the campus as well as design- experiences of design review by architect Owen Kennerly, AIA. ing the central plant and IT plant. As background for these studies of design review, we offer two complementary historical perspectives by And, on page 51, we erroneously reported that two of California’s premier architectural historians, David Gebhard and Mitchell Schwarzer. AIA San Mateo County was preparing a Regional Urban You will also find other Bay Area-centric articles: a proposal for “Design Review Guidelines Guidelines” by Design charrette. In fact, the AIA East Bay Chapter, San Mateo architect Ellis Schoichet, AIA; an interview with San Francisco architect Sylvia Kwan, FAIA, who was a the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, and contestant on this season’s Survivor; AIA San Francisco’s selection of the city’s best-loved buildings, reported by the City of Pittsburg are jointly hosting a charrette on John King, urban design writer for the San Francisco Chronicle; an elegant and economical renovation for the East the Railroad Avenue Corridor. Oakland School of the Arts, by San Francisco’s Stoner Meek Architecture and Urban Design (in “Under the Radar”); and, for our “Coda,” a brief look at changing design review criteria, as seen in mid-twentieth century and early twenty-first century additions to a late-nineteenth century San Francisco landmark. We also look at a landscape much-neglected by the architectural press: that of the suburban office park, reflecting on the role of design review in the formation of the Sand Hill Road Corridor in Menlo Park and Palo Alto. And, as always, we try to have at least one nutsy-boltsy, how-to article, this one on how best to behave at a design review hearing, Wendy Kohn’s “Confessions of a Design Reviewer.” We look forward to your responses. Tim Culvahouse, FAIA, editor [email protected] 5 Contributors Margit Aramburu has a BA in geography from John King is the Pulitzer Prize-nominated urban the Homeless Prenatal Program. He may be reached at Humboldt State and an MLA from UCB’s environmen- design writer for the San Francisco Chronicle and a fre- [email protected]. tal planning program. She has worked in regional quent contributor to other architectural publications, land use planning agencies in the Bay Area and the including Architecture Boston. He may be reached at Zigmund Rubel, AIA, is a principal at Anshen + Delta for 25 years and is currently the director of [email protected].