**This class will be taught on Zoom**
Timothy Pflueger may have been the most creative architect to have ever worked in San Francisco. Though his formal training in architecture was limited to night classes, he produced some of the most distinctive architecture in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1920s and 1930s. Entering a profession still dominated by Beaux-Arts classicism, Pflueger embraced modernism. In the course, I'll survey his life and present several of his major creations, including the Castro Theater, the Pacific Telephone Building, 450 Sutter, Theodore Roosevelt Middle School, El Rey Theater, the Paramount Theater in Oakland, and City College.