Where
725 Greenwich Street
San Francisco, CA 94111
When
June 20, 2026
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
June 17, 2026 • Posted by Design Bay Area
The Afternoon
This is a rare afternoon — an immersive encounter with three of San Francisco’s most distinguished architects, in an exceptional studio. From 2:00 pm, participants gather at the North Beach studio of Kuth Ranieri Architects for an exclusive illustrated presentation of the firm’s international body of work, followed by an in-depth guided tour of the studio: models, drawings, materials, current projects, and the full arc of a remarkable thirty-five-year practice.
Mid-afternoon, award-winning architect Anne Fougeron, FAIA, will deliver a vivid illustrated presentation of her career — her built work, her award-winning residences, her theoretical projects, and the dramatically original unbuilt works that have shaped her thinking.
The day closes with a convivial reception: bites, sips. There’s time to discuss ideas and inspirations from the afternoon, explore career paths, and speak directly with Kuth Ranieri leadership and Anne Fougeron, who has taught architectural design to graduate and undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley, where she served as a lecturer and visiting professor.
Kuth Ranieri will be offering signed copies of its monograph to all attendees. In addition, Anne Fougeron will also have copies of her newest book available for purchase and signing
The Host Studios
Kuth Ranieri Architects was co-founded by Elizabeth Ranieri, FAIA, and Byron Kuth, FAIA, in San Francisco in 1990. With studios in San Francisco and the Boston area, the firm has earned a national reputation for works of architecture that integrate environmental stewardship, craft, and contemporary design thinking across a remarkable breadth of scale and program — from meticulously considered private homes to major civic and public infrastructure.
The firm’s portfolio spans from intimate residential projects to community buildings, public park pavilions, and international airport terminals. Kuth Ranieri’s landmark projects include Harvey Milk Terminal 1 at San Francisco International Airport — developed in distinguished collaboration with Gensler and a consortium of leading firms, and recipient of the 2023 Summit Award from the IIDA Northern, California, numerous AIA awards from the San Francisco and the 2025 UNESCO,s Prix Versailles Award— as well as significant contributions to Chase Center, the Golden State Warriors’ arena in Mission Bay. The firm co-founded the Deep Green Design Alliance, a cross-disciplinary collaborative focused on design solutions that address the environmental challenges shaping our global future.
Kuth Ranieri Architects is a San Francisco certified woman-owned business enterprise. Their sustained commitment to sustainability, community, and architectural intelligence has made them one of the Bay Area’s most admired and enduring practices — one whose work speaks with equal authority across the intimate scale of a private home and the civic scale of a great public building.
“In a world obsessed with an international cast of ego-driven starchitects, San Francisco architects Elizabeth Ranieri, FAIA, and Byron Kuth, FAIA, are the thoughtful, versatile, low-key, detail-obsessed exceptions.”
— Diane Dorrans Saeks· Opening epigraph, Kuth Ranieri Architects monograph, Princeton Architectural Press
“We seek to enrich the human experience by crafting engaging spaces that are timeless and of our time.”
— Kuth Ranieri Architects
Guest Architect
Anne Fougeron, FAIA · Fougeron Architecture
Anne Fougeron, FAIA, is the founder and principal of Fougeron Architecture, one of San Francisco’s most consistently celebrated and intellectually rigorous design practices. Raised in France and the United States, she attended Wellesley College and completed her graduate studies in architecture at the University of California, Berkeley — where she has since returned to teach, serving as a lecturer and visiting professor. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, a distinction awarded to fewer than three percent of registered architects in the United States.
Since founding her practice in 1986, Fougeron has built a body of work that is at once formally rigorous and deeply humane. Her projects span private residences of exceptional distinction — among them the Fall House in Big Sur, the Suspension House, and the Wavelet House, both recipients of the American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum and multiple international prizes — alongside civic, cultural, multi-family, and healthcare buildings. The firm has received more than fifty design awards and been published in more than two hundred international publications. Princeton Architectural Press describes her approach as one that “embraces architectural opportunities found in opposition, creating buildings that redefine program, reinvent historical building types, and reinvigorate civic centers.”
Central to Fougeron’s practice is the conviction that architecture is a social art — that beautiful, rigorous design should be accessible to all, and that buildings can carry genuine ethical and civic weight. Her published monographs include Fougeron Architecture: Opposition/Composition (Princeton Architectural Press) and Framing Light (2024).
“While I am a tried-and-true Northern Californian, my work often brings me to Los Angeles and the neighboring areas. And as an architect, I can’t help but notice what’s around me. Modern architecture is often painted as elitist — as if efficient design can’t also be good design. Buildings can be useful while still being beautiful.”
— Anne Fougeron, FAIA · Fougeron Architecture, San Francisco
About the Seminar Leader
Diane Dorrans Saeks is a San Francisco-based design journalist, editor, and the author of twenty-six books on architecture, design, travel, and style, published by Rizzoli, Chronicle Books, and others. Her most recent Rizzoli titles include Jean-Louis Deniot Interiors and Parisian by Design. She is Design Editor of PaperCity magazine and a co-founding editor of Metropolitan Home and C Magazine California Style. Diane has traveled to more than 110 countries as a working journalist and has presented her Dynamic Minds, Brilliant Inspiration design seminars — intimate, behind-the-scenes studio visits with leading architects and designers — for more than fifteen years, in affiliation with Design Bay Area and San Francisco Design Week.
*Note: This is a Professional presentation. Not suitable for guests under 16.
Parking note: The North Beach Festival will be taking place that weekend, so parking may be limited. We recommend public transit or rideshare services and allowing a little extra travel time.