San Francisco is a city designed for artists and wanderers. From
North Beach, to Chinatown, to the cold, rough surf of Ocean Beach,
to Marin, both visitors and lifelong residents have endless
opportunities to explore new neighborhoods, buildings,
environments, and cultures just by getting in the car, hopping on a
cable car, or by simply walking around the block.
In "San Francisco: A Map of Perceptions, " the architect Andrea
Ponsi unravels the multifaceted beauty of one of America's favorite
cities, introducing even those who have lived there for years to
nuances often left unseen. Ponsi, a native of Florence who lived in
San Francisco for many years, lyrically describes everyday life in
the city, from a cafe in North Beach where he sits next to Lawrence
Ferlinghetti, to the de Young Museum ("a solid mass, a rough but
elegant body, faceted but compact") and the Academy of Sciences
("an ethereal, transparent building, lace made of glass and slender
columns"), to Alcatraz ("an abandoned ship, a Flying Dutchman set
adrift that bears the signs of a life of torment"), and even to the
buffalo who reside in Golden Gate Park.
As with his book on Florence, Ponsi here reveals a deeply
personal look at what it's like to live in and love a city. Having
the unique perspective of having been both an insider and an
outsider to San Francisco, he speaks to us in the way we dream an
architect would, capturing the city's diverse yet emblematic
structures through delicate watercolor and line drawings, while
also offering poetic descriptions of the underlying smells, sounds,
and light of its many neighborhoods.
A perfect balance of text and illustrations, "San Francisco: A
Map of Perceptions" offers not only a guide for those visiting or
returning to the city but also a compelling invitation for
residents to revisit the utterly unique place in which they
live.
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