San Diego Architecture from Mission to Modern: Guide to the Buildings, Planning, People, and Spaces That Shape the Region
FINALLY—A GUIDE TO SAN DIEGO’S ARCHITECTUREOver the years San Diego’s best architects have designed some of the most interesting buildings in the country, which are often overlooked by the national media. In just over 100 years, San Diego moved from missions to Spanish Romance, then to Irving Gill’s primal modernism, followed by decades of fine post-WW II modernism. Recently, a new generation of architects has been quietly redefining regional architecture.Over the past 25 years, the San Diego region has come of age: its population exceeds 3 million, plus another 1.3 million in neighboring Tijuana. America’s Finest City, and the county that surrounds it, deserves a serious, in-depth architectural study. San Diego Architecture: From Missions to Modern fills that need—presenting not only the architecture and buildings themselves, but some of the important stories, institutions, plans, political forces, and people behind those designs.