$7.85M Stanley Saitowitz redesign for sale
This home is a showpiece of one of SF s most controversial architects
Anna Marie Erwert
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Want to live in a home designed by one of San Francisco s most renowned - but also controversial - architects? This Mission Dolores abode designed by Stanley Saitowitz of Natoma Architects is a classic example of his modern style.
Locals have walked past Saitowitz s designs before: The Yerba Buena Lofts on Folsom Street, for example, or the 8 Octavia building featured on HBO s Looking. Saitowitz has been both praised and criticized for his monochromatic or machine-like architecture. In 2008, his design for San Francisco s Beth Sholom Synagogue garnered international praise and awards - as well as heavy local critique.
Across denominations and across the United States, Jewish families under financial pressure from the coronavirus pandemic are deciding that synagogue dues are an expense they can cut.
“More congregations are seeing declines in members than are seeing growth,” said Amy Asin, vice-president of Strengthening Congregations, the synagogue advising arm at the Union of Reform Judaism. “We don’t know whether or not it will be long-term. Are they simply taking a year off, or are they not coming back?”
The evidence so far is mainly anecdotal, but rabbis and other Jewish professionals are saying the same thing: Congregants are struggling, so their synagogues are, too.