Golden Gate University’s distinctive 1979 Late-Modern campus at 536 Mission Street faces demolition for a proposed SOM-designed high-rise redevelopment. Recently found eligible for the California Register, the Podesto and T. Y. Lin-designed complex is a rare Brutalist ensemble whose sculptural architecture and public spaces warrant serious preservation consideration.

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Paffard Keatinge-Clay, architect of several Modernist buildings in California from the 1960s and 70s, including sculptural Brutalist addition to SFAI, the SFSU Student Union, and Kaiser French Campus.