FSDA’s 2025-2026 Lecture Series

The Friends of San Diego Architecture presents inspiring lectures on architecture, design, and the built environment by speakers who stimulate thoughtful, community-centered discussions. After more than 40 years, the conversations continue.

Join Us in Celebrating FSDA’s 40th Anniversary and Our Region’s Legacy as a World Design Capital!

“Celebrating 40 Years of Designing the San Diego Region”

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San Diego’s urban center in its coastal setting, November 26, 2024 (Robert Broms)

A Panel Discussion
Saturday, Sept. 20, 10:00 AM
San Diego History Center
Casa de Balboa
1649 El Prado
Balboa Park
SPECIAL NOTICE: The Cabrillo Bridge will be closed the morning of September 20; you may access the many parking lots on the east and south sides of the Prado from Park Blvd.

San Diego, like all urban regions around the world, is ever changing and is never really built out. The task of its citizens is to manage and guide that change. The Friends of San Diego Architecture for forty years has been observing, presenting, and discussing the changing environment, providing a framework for understanding those changes and how they may be for the better.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of our organization, we will host a panel of distinguished urban observers who will offer their unique perspectives on the past 40 years and the next 40 for San Diego.

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Gary London, development economist
Megan Groth, architect, author, and advocate
Michael Cintron, architectural designer and urban observer
Howard Blackson, urban designer and urban provocateur
The panel will be moderated by FSDA’s own Mike Stepner