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A pink building painted by Bob Buckter, also known as Dr. Color, is seen at 1102 Treat Ave., in San Francisco’s Mission District on Oct. 8, 2025.

Architecture faculty Clark Thenhaus on the history behind San Francisco’s colorful homes

Media Coverage / October 13, 2025

Clark Thenhaus offers insight into the history of the city’s iconic Victorian homes in a story spotlighting Bob Buckter, aka Dr. Color.

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Image of Float Lab by Buoyant Ecologies.

Exhibition "Designing Material Innovation" opens on CCA's back lot

Outdoor show features five original site-specific architecture structure and pavilions using material and form in ways that have rarely been seen before.

Architecture schools are designing material innovation

Designing Material Innovation, an outdoor exhibition at CCA, hypothesizes a future with radically different notions of material, fabrication, and design.

Cover art for No Straight Lines by Maurice Vellekoop (Fantagraphics, 2012).

The documentary examining the history of LGBTQ+ comics

The new documentary No Straight Lines, co-produced by MFA Comics Chair Justin Hall, discusses the artists and the art of queer creators in the 1970s and '80s.