Skateboarding art historian and Docomomo Northern California Board Member, Ted Barrow walks visitors through the exhibition, Skateboarding San Francisco: Concrete, Community, Continuity, showing how the City’s unique terrain has become iconic to skateboarding. Combining archival photos from the library’s own History Center with historic skate photos, videos and material artifacts, Barrow shares the impact of skateboarding in San Francisco and its reach across the globe.

Explore the groundbreaking “American School” architects at SF’s Center for Architecture + Design. Discover how Goff & Greene’s protégés, like Agnoli & Muennig, shaped Bay Area design with radical, contextual, and uniquely American visions. Runs Feb 20 - Aug 8, 2025.

Foster + Partners has completed a $400M renovation of Architect William Pereira’s Transamerica Pyramid, revitalizing its interiors, Redwood Park, and surrounding district. This transformation blends historic preservation with modern design, creating a vibrant hub for business, community, and creativity in the heart of the city.

Co-organized by Historic Preservation Education Foundation and the Boston Architectural College, the conference program will include three tracks of presentations on advocacy challenges and preservation strategies, history and context and technical conservation issues and solutions for post-World War II resources, to take place on Thursday, March 20 and Friday, March 21, 2025.