Fougeron Architecture : Framing Light

Anne Fougeron has remained clear: architecture can change lives.

Throughout her distinguished, award-winning practice, Anne Fougeron has remained clear: architecture can change lives, and everyone deserves access to design’s transformative potential. Since founding her eponymous firm in 1986, Fougeron has continuously expanded the reach of design excellence. Working with her small team, she crafts a diverse body of work united by her vision of humane modernism, architecture that engages the full range of people’s lives and society’s fundamental responsibilities in the language of today. Whether transforming a historic building into a vibrant nonprofit hub or weaving much needed affordable housing into a burgeoning downtown district, her designs reflect her deep embrace of architecture’s larger social and environmental promise. This book explores Fougeron’s practice and architectural career, featuring critical texts, in-depth examinations of the firm’s most acclaimed projects, and stunning photography, diagrams, and graphic design.

• Retrospective of Anne Fougeron’s award-winning San Francisco architectural practice• Features major and varied signature projects across her 40-year career as a humane modernist• Explores the creative process and social vision that animate her design excellence• Captures the play of light, color, and brilliant invention in the firm’s work, through stunning photography and precise diagrams• Includes insightful essays by women in architecture in dialogue with Fougeron’s leading vision