and will be Thursday at 6pm at Pier 1. San Francisco Architectural Heritage is also holding a concert series at the Haas-Lilienthal House on Tuesday.Architecture and the City continues their film series and though I was not able to get tickets for last weeks film, I will certainly attend Wednesday's A Necessary Ruin. The film is about a geodesic dome in Baton Rouge. The title seems to allude to J. B. Jackson's essay The Necessity for Ruins
which I have read and reread over the years. Jackson identifies the now fairly widely held opinion, that Americans have transitioned from an interest in the history of the hero to a history of the masses, or our "vernacular past." Jackson concludes that for this type of history to present itself it must be forgotten and then "restored." I am curious if the film will incorporate any of Jackson's essay or just the title.
