STANLEY SAITOWITZ, 1022 NATOMA OFF 11TH STREET, at end of street. PLease note that only street parking is available at this location
Join us for a rare afternoon inside two of San Francisco’s most accomplished and internationally admired studios — Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects and BAMO — in the city’s SoMa district. This studio visit is a private, structured presentation by the firm’s principals and staff, with full access to studios, works in progress, and the ideas and processes that define work of the highest caliber.
Led by design author and journalist Diane Dorrans Saeks, this seminar is designed for designers, architects, students, and all those who are passionate about architecture and design at the top level.
Dynamic Minds, Brilliant Inspiration is Diane Dorrans Saeks’s acclaimed series of structured design seminars, presented in association with Design Bay Area and San Francisco Design Week. Each event offers an intimate, directed afternoon of studio visits led personally by Diane — with structured presentations by principals and staff, access to studios, workshops, and materials libraries, and a private reception to close the day.
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Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects
Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects is one of San Francisco’s most original and internationally recognized architectural practices. Founded by noted architect Stanley Saitowitz, the firm is known for work of conceptual clarity, structural precision, and enduring formal intelligence. Projects range from significant cultural and civic buildings to inventive residential design, each distinguished by a commitment to light, materiality, and the relationship between built form and human experience. The studio’s influence extends well beyond San Francisco: it is a practice that has shaped the conversation of contemporary architecture.
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BAMO is one of the world’s preeminent interior architecture and design studios, with a distinguished body of work spanning luxury hotels, private residences, and bespoke hospitality spaces across five continents. Founded in San Francisco in 1991, the firm has built an international reputation for environments of exceptional refinement — spaces that respond with complete fidelity to their location, their client, and their purpose, while achieving a level of craftsmanship and beauty that is unmistakably BAMO’s own. In residential work, BAMO brings the same exacting attention to material, light, and detail that defines its hospitality interiors — creating private homes of enduring character and singular elegance. The firm’s principals command an unusually wide range of historical reference, artisanal tradition, and material culture, qualities that have made BAMO the choice of the world’s most discerning private clients as well as its finest hotel brands. Among BAMO’s most celebrated projects is the Villa Feltrinelli on Lake Garda, widely regarded as one of the great hotel interiors in Europe, alongside Passalacqua, most recently named the World’s Best Hotel, and Capella Bangkok, ranked among the top three hotels globally. Other major projects include the Peninsula Chicago and Four Seasons Hotels in Bora Bora, Carmelo, Houston, and Milan, as well as distinguished works in Florida, South America, and Thailand.
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About the Seminar Leader
Diane Dorrans Saeks is a San Francisco-based design journalist, editor, and the author of twenty-six books on architecture, design, travel, and style, published by Rizzoli, Chronicle Books, and others. Her most recent Rizzoli titles include Jean-Louis Deniot Interiors and Parisian by Design. She is Design Editor of PaperCity magazine and a co-founding editor of Metropolitan Home and C Magazine California Style. Diane has traveled to more than 110 countries as a working journalist and has presented her Dynamic Minds, Brilliant Inspiration design seminars — intimate, behind-the-scenes studio visits with leading architects and designers — for more than fifteen years, in affiliation with Design Bay Area and San Francisco Design Week.
Learn more about other events in the series –
Studio visits to The Office of Charles de Lisle, Studio Collins Weir, and Luca Pignata Studio. Participants will converse, meet, discuss ideas, and meet the designers and architects.
A studio visit is led by best-selling author Diane Dorrans Saeks at Kuth/Ranieri Architects with guest architect Anne Fougeron, FAIA · Fougeron Architecture. The day closes with a convivial reception: bites, sips.