Shape Your City

Making the Bay Area a better place to live, work, and visit

Shape Your City

Enhancing public engagement with Bay Area architecture and its built environment

Shape Your City

Showcasing the impact of great design in our daily lives and environment

Shape Your City

Celebrating the Bay Area’s pioneering and creative spirit

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 the Center Expanding?

To meet the demand for expanded programs and help solve the pressing issues we face in our city, the Center for Architecture + Design 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.

Two Ways to Shape Your City

Expand Programs

Help grow the Center’s educational and program offerings
Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

The 140 Fund

Help AIASF build the Center for Architecture + Design
Contributions may be deductible as trade or business expenses.

A New Hub for all Things Architecture + Design

Aidlin Darling Design and a talented team of collaborators from across the Bay Area are working 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 daily 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 and Design — The Center’s Story

Discover why community advocates, industry leaders, and AIA members 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

Shape Your City Center for Architecture + Design Testimonials

Thank You to our 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 industry allies, AIA members, and individual donors.

Sustaining Advocates

Allison Albericci, AIA
Christina + Evan Sharp
Christine + Mike Murray
Craig Hartman, FAIA + Jan O’Brien, AIA
Kaitlyn + Mike Krieger
Stanley Tang + Gloria Zhu
The Hanson-Agins Charitable Fund
Tundra Glacier Fund
William Valentine, FAIA

Sustaining Supporters

Carla + Paul Cooper, AIA
Charles Higueras, FAIA
Chris Pemberton, AIA
David Hecht, AIA
Nora Klebow, FAIA

Circle of Friends
Adrianne Steichen, AIA
Cathy Simon, FAIA
David Meckel, FAIA
GAST Architects
Gene Schnair, FAIA
Jessica Lane, AIA
John Kouletsis, AIA
Marc L’Italien, FAIA
Nathan Ogle, AIA
Ronald Brocchini, FAIA

Stacy Williams
Studio Perez
Tim Stevens, AIA

THANK YOU FOR YOUR DONATION

Thanks to everyone who has donated!

 

In the Press

Shape Your City

This is the moment to contribute.

We need 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 our Development Associate Raul Orellana at rorellana@aiasf.org.

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Expand Programs

Help grow the Center’s educational and program offerings
Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

The 140 Fund

Help AIASF build the Center for Architecture + Design
Contributions may be deductible as trade or business expenses.