Discover the
design of your city.

A world-class gallery, forum, and gathering
space where design meets the community.

The Built Environment

Architecture shapes our city. When we understand it, we influence what it becomes. Each September, our Architecture + the City festival opens the built environment to everyone.

Downtown & HousingDesigning space for recovery. Youth & EducationEmpower the next generation of designers. EquityDesign an inclusive landscape. Health & Well-beingDesign for well-being.

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Invest in a permanent home for San Francisco's design legacy, and the youth programs, exhibitions, and public spaces it powers for generations.

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Individual and foundation gifts are tax-deductible through the Center (501c3). Corporate giving is handled through AIASF (501c6).

Our impact

Inspiring and educating the public through architecture and design.

400+events every year

1,300–2,600Festival attendees annually

226students at the 2026 Youth Design Festival

100+Community Alliance honorees since 2015

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On view

OVERTIME 26

Design and art outside the institutional frame. Through August 31, 2026.

Do Not Try to Remember

The American School of Architecture in the Bay Area.

Recent

Collective Comfort

Climate resilience in desert cities, with UC Berkeley.

Power your creative resilience

Explore each design discipline, and submit your own work to be featured.

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Center events

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JUL30

BAYA Dogpatch Firm Crawl

5:30–8:30 PM, Young architects firm crawl in Dogpatch

AUG18

AI-Ready: A Data Foundation for AEC Firms

8:30–10:30 AM, Data integration strategies for firms

AUG18

AIASF Election Connection

6:00–7:00 PM, Meet the candidates for leadership

AUG20

From Vision to Reality

5:30–8:00 PM, Understanding project delivery

SEP10

23rd Annual Architecture + the City

Sep 10 to 27, a month-long celebration of the built environment

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In motion

Coming soon The campaign filmA new blueprint for the city Testimonial Tri Vu, scholarship recipientWhere the funding goes Programs Young designers at workInside our youth programming

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Be part of the city's design conversation.

01Become a memberJoin AIASF and the Center community. 02VolunteerTours, youth programs, and the festival. 03GiveSupport youth design education.

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