Day 3 of the library tour of San Francisco involved a very informative talk from a local architect at her office. She talked about three branch libraries that she's worked on here in San Francisco. She gave some great pointers on getting started and sticking to an idea. She also talked about her career and how she got into architecture and her story was...not so much inspiring, but interesting and somewhat uplifting. While I can't remember her last name, I do remember her firm's name: [KP]a+d. Like lily pad. :-)
In the afternoon we wondered up the street into the North Beach neighborhood (little Italy). My prof. made sure to point out the church where Marilyn Monroe got married to Joe DiMaggio, among other things like the rhythm of the neighborhood architecture and the difference between the the two city grids.
Saints Peter and Paul Church. THE catholic church for this community.
We passed many a small coffee shop and pastry shop and being the lover of Italian food that I am, I MUST return to this neighborhood. I only wish I could afford to become a regular.
From there we caught the bus to our site. Our project is to use the site of Marina Branch library but pretend there isn't a building there currently. The Marina district is the most northern part of the city, very close to the Golden Gate state park and the Bridge. We took plenty of pictures and explored the surroundings while waiting for a short tour of the current library facilities. Unfortunately this tour wasn't very helpful to me because the librarian took us into the staff lounge to talk to us and answer questions and not everyone fit into the room. I was one of those that didn't get to hear the questions being asked, nor his answers. Oh well.
After the tour, we continued picture-taking and went our separate ways. My prof. had told us that we could take the same bus that had gotten us to the library back downtown to the metro tunnel, but classic me, I took the bus going the wrong way. I ended up in the middle of the residential area right next to the Marina. At first I was scolding myself and thought I should whip out the GPS to figure out how to get home ASAP, but then I thought "it's a beautiful day and there's no need to rush. I'm going to go look at the water," so I wandered on down. Unfortunately there was a very busy street without a cross walk in my way and only a recreational bike path on the other side. Not wanting to get run over by car or bicycle this was as close as I got.
That's the Golden Gate in the background.
After snapping this pic, I went up to Lombard to catch by bus, making sure to get on going the right way. I wasn't really paying attention the the route and didn't realize this bus would take me so close to the Golden Gate Bridge.
View from the bus.
The bus actually went right up to the lookout point next to the bridge before turning around and heading south.
We had Thursday off to actually get started on our projects and Friday we had a crit. bright and early. I think I must work much much slower than everyone else (or I just insist on getting enough sleep) because even though I felt I did good work, I didn't have as much as most other people to show.
And now I'm procrastinating for Monday's crit. so I'd better get back to it.
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