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previous image | next image The images in the above portfolio represent a sampling of the work that was on display at the In_Sight On_Site exhibition. Photography courtesy of B | A | Y | A

Bay Area Young Architects, or BAYA for short, is a committee of the San Francisco chapter of the AIA (SFAIA) and other chapters around the San Francisco Bay and Oakland areas. The group connects young architects through social events and career development services, and it serves as an outlet for its members’ creative talents—at least for those talents that don’t find expression in work.

For the latter, BAYA has organized a yearly art exhibition called In_Sight On_Site, which was held this year in the SFAIA gallery.

Twenty-seven architects and designers submitted work for this year’s show, for a total of about 50 pieces, according to Douglas Smith, Assoc. AIA. Smith is associate director designate of the SFAIA and worked to coordinate the event, which opened on November 4.

“There’s quite a range of pieces,” Smith said, “from furniture and mobiles to painting, drawing, mixed media, photography, models, and sculptures.”

Some of the pieces drew specifically on the artists’ experience as architects, such as the tensile fabric mobiles submitted by Soo-Hwa Yuan, which were inspired by his work on a similarly structured design for a theater set. Others, like Sabrina Lupero’s "Sidewalks of Rome" series of photographs, highlighted the designers’ other artistic talents. Lupero shot the images while she was studying architecture in Spain and Italy. In her entry statement, she wrote that the she and her camera “maintain an oscillating relationship between the visceral and architectural components of these places.”

By Kevin Lerner

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