{"id":884,"date":"2010-04-07T17:21:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T21:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=884"},"modified":"2010-04-08T23:34:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T03:34:29","slug":"san-franciscothe-mission-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/san-franciscothe-mission-2\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco\/The Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/bakerfront.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-885\" title=\"bakerhousestreet\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/bakerhousestreet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/bakerhousestreet.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/bakerhousestreet-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>David Baker house, the Mission, San Francisco &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n<p>My wife Renee and son Brendan stand in front of David Baker&#8217;s house on Shotwell Street in the Mission. On the street side, the house retains much of its original facade, but Baker&#8217;s intervention is clearly visible on the ground floor. An office entrance is to the left, the house above is accessible through the center door, and our rear apartment is reached through the wood slatted gate to the right, originally a carriage passage way. Solar panels can just be seen on the roof.<\/p>\n<p>According to Baker in <a href=\" http:\/\/www.dwell.com\/articles\/mission-statement.html#ixzz0kPeMDsww\" target=\"_blank\">Dwell magazine<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were about 20 people living in this warren of windowless rooms,\u201d recalls Baker, \u201calong with assorted pit bulls, cats, and chickens. Whenever someone wanted to expand, they just nailed on some Sheetrock and a new roof.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/bakeryard.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-886\" title=\"bakerhouse\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/bakerhouse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/bakerhouse.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/bakerhouse-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>David Baker house, rear yard &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/why.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-888\" title=\"why\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/why.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/why.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/why-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>David Baker house, rear yard &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n<p>The back courtyard is covered in a thick carpet of loose pebbles. There is a workshop behind sliding wood and plastic doors, a spiral staircase provides access to the main living space, and very tall bamboos shield one side of the yard. Hovering over it all is the word &#8220;why&#8221; apparently taken from an old sign. Reminds me of &#8220;Hell Yes&#8221; on the New Museum in New York. But I much prefer &#8220;why.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Baker house, the Mission, San Francisco &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose My wife Renee and son Brendan stand in front of David Baker&#8217;s house on Shotwell Street in the Mission. On the street side, the house retains much of its original facade, but Baker&#8217;s intervention is clearly visible on the ground floor. An office entrance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}