Wednesday, March 24rd, 2010
Harvard reception starts at 5:30pm
Video presentation from 6:45 - 8:15pm

American Institute of Architects San Francisco
Hallidie Building
130 Sutter Street, Suite 600 (btwn Montgomery/Kearny)
San Francisco, CA 9410  Map

Light appetizers and refreshments will be served.
Members: $15, Non-Members: $25

Register at:
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/560105290

Please use registration code HarvardSF03 to receive the member discount

Just as Gold Rush San Francisco developed its own amusement parks in the hinterland of The Mission District, several decades later, a growing San Francisco developed Golden Gate Park as an amusement destination driven by the economic and recreational interests of the upper class. The history of Golden Gate Park's construction can be seen as a clash between the City's elites and the idealism of the park's designers who held that their bucolic, natural vision of the park was for the benefit of all citizens.

Spurred by earthquake damage, two of the park's major building attractions have been rebuilt in the last decade - the De Young Museum and the California Academy of Sciences. These buildings have turned out fundamentally different from each other. What is the nature of these differences? Why might this have happened? How do these buildings use as well as give back to the park?

Join us at the San Francisco Chapter of the American Institute of Architects as architect Glenn Lym, a member of both the AIASF and Harvard Club San Francisco, shows two of his recent short films on the history of the park and on the design of De Young Museum and the California Academy of Sciences.

There will be a Harvard Club SF only reception before the film showing which will be open to members of both organizations and their friends.