We imagine change in historic and contemporary environments to cultivate thriving, sustainable, and resilient communities.
It was great to have cross-studio and cross-office collaboration at a project design charette. With three studios and four offices participating, the ideas were flowing (and the pizza, too)!
Our San Francisco office and Architecture Studio welcomes Kathryn Stevens!Kathryn, a San Diego native, went to school at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo where she studied architecture and anthropology. After working in the Bay Area for four years, she relocated to Brooklyn where she worked for MADE Design/Build, contributing to New York City’s historic urban fabric.
We are thrilled that upon her return to the Bay Area, she’s joined us at P&T!
California was an important place for Martin Luther King in his pursuit of equality through non-violence. He visited the state often, and his influence and impact are undeniable. Some of the highlights of his California trips include:
1956 / San Francisco to give a speech to the NAACP at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
1958 / Cal Tech where he had a three-day residency and gave three speeches
1963 / Oakland to mark the 100th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation with a speech to 7,000 people at the Oakland Civic Auditorium
1964 / Fresno and San Diego to protest a California housing law that made it legal for landlords to discriminate based on race
1965 / Los Angeles to promote nonviolence and reconciliation following the Watts Riots
1965 / San Francisco to speak at the opening of Grace Cathedral
1967 / UC Berkeley and Stanford University where he laid out his “radical vision for genuine equality” in a pair of speeches
1967 / Sacramento State College where he gave a speech to 7,000 people at Campus Stadium
1968 / Delano where King sent two telegrams to Cesar Chavez in support of his hunger strike; King never met Cesar Chavez
This is a sample of the many visits Dr. King made to California. Certainly, his truths live on, and our responsibility is to carry them forward.
📷Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Cow Palace, San Francisco Bay Area, June 30, 1964, by George Conklin (geoconklin2001)