sandiegocityscape.bsky.social
@sandiegocityscape.bsky.social
Architecture and design writer for Times of San Diego and San Diego magazine. Author of architectural guidebooks to San Diego and UC San Diego.
San Diego needs a City Architect in the Mayor’s Office to make sure good architecture and urban design are part of the planning, permitting and approval process as a development proposals or city capital improvements go through the city pipeline.

timesofsandiego.com/arts/2025/01...
CityScape: As a New World Design Capital, San Diego Could Benefit from a Chief Design Officer
SD and Tijuana completed their yearlong run as World Design Capital 2024 and SD design professionals hope that our WDC legacy will include a chief design officer.
timesofsandiego.com
January 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
RIP architect Sim Van Der Ryn, pioneer of sustainable design, former UC prof and former CA state architect.

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Sim Van der Ryn Obituary (1935 - 2024) - Petaluma, CA - San Francisco Chronicle
View Sim Van der Ryn's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.
www.legacy.com
November 18, 2024 at 8:41 PM
San Diego Museum of Art in historical Balboa Park
proposes modernist intervention designed by Lord Norman Foster. Here is my CityScape coverage, including a link to the museum’s animated video. Yes? No? Maybe?

timesofsandiego.com/arts/2024/11...
CityScape: Design for Museum of Art's West Wing Is 'Powerful Architecture' in Historic Context
Foster + Partners' design is powerful architecture within a historical context, and unlike contemporary museum designs by architects such as Gehry, Calatrava and Hadid, this one is muted rather than l...
timesofsandiego.com
November 13, 2024 at 10:53 PM