That crispness in the air can mean only one thing: Fall is nipping at our heals and with the change of seasons so do our architecture calendars begin to fill up.

While New York awaits the arrival of Archtober, our West Coast brethren are lucky enough to be in the throes of the month-long Architecture and the City Festival, the nation’s largest architectural festival that includes tours, films, workshops, exhibitions and lectures. San Francisco represent!

More info after the jump.

This year’s theme, “Architecture of Consequence,” was developed in partnership with the Netherlands Institute of Architecture (NIA) and explores many of today’s more pressing urban issues, from economic crises and food shortages to vanishing leisure time and weakened social cohesion in public space.

The heart of the festival is the AIA SF headquarters where the exhibition for “Architecture of Consequence” is on display through October 22nd.  It features the work of some big names like OMA/AMO and IwamotoScott, in addition to lesser-known local talents like envelope Architecture+Design and Fletcher Studio: Landscape Architecture + Urban Design.

Pier 24 Photography Warehouse by envelope Architecture+Design. image (c) Richard Barnes

For those who want to get up close and personal with the Bay Area’s best architecture might want to take some time this weekend and join the San Francisco Living: Home Tours.  Using an open house format, tour participants have the opportunity to see some of the city’s latest residential projects from the inside out and meet the design teams that created them.  This year’s list of tour homes is impressive and includes:

Noe Vista (Kennerly Architecture & Planning)
Harrison Street Residences: 1 x 2 (Studio 12 Architecture)
Old Bernal House (Feldman Architecture)
Hill Street Residence (John Maniscalco Architecture)
Congo Street Residence (MaK Studio)
Alpine Terrace Residence (H+H Creative)
St. Germain (Andy Rodgers Design Studio with SF Modern)
Sunset Overlook (John Lum Architecture)
Richmond Re-Do (Addison Strong Design Studio)
Parkview Terrace (Kwan Henmi / Fougeron Architecture)

Hill Street Residence by John Maniscalco Architecture

To find out more about the tours, click here. For everything you want to know about the Architecture and the City Festival, check out the Festival homepage.

by Ryan Quinlan

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