The Dwell Guide to Events in Your City

Wednesday, March 26

Paige Rense, editor of Architectural Digest, hosts this two-day conference with the magazine's photographers, writers and designers. Guest speaker Robert A.M. Stern, architect and dean of the Yale architecture school, shares his thoughts on the relationship between architecture and interior design. Through March 27. Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood; (212) 630-3777; www.aiasf.org

Thursday, March 27

Design Within Reach showcases the latest from blankblank, a local design collective. Meet the designers and catch a glimpse of recent and upcoming work. 6:30-9 p.m.; Design Within Reach San Francisco – Potera, 2299 Alameda St.; (415) 734-9172; www.dwr.com/studios/sanfranciscopotrero

The Pacific Film Archive’s new series, The Clash of ’68, examines this period of global unrest through period films, including Bernardo Bertolucci’s Before the Revolution and Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000, a film by Alain Tanner and John Berger. Through April 23. 130 California Hall, 2626 Bancroft Way; (510) 642-0808; www.bampfa.berkeley.edu

Friday, March 28

The SFMOMA continues its screening of Nonwestern Westerns, international films inspired by America’s tales of tough-talkin’, gun-toatin’ cowboys and their lives on the range. Today, catch Summer Love (3 p.m.), the first Polish Western, followed by Saturday’s screening of Exiled, Johnnie To’s tale of gang-ridden Macau, Portugal (3 p.m.). 151 Third Street between Mission and Howard Streets; (415) 357-4000; www.sfmoma.org

Edward Docx, a young London author who stormed literary circles with his first novel, The Calligrapher, reads from his latest book Pravda, an expose of the Glover family’s little secrets. 7 p.m.; Booksmith, 1644 Haight St.; (415) 863-8688; www.booksmith.com/events.html

Saturday, March 29

Dwell brings you to Mountain View, CA, to tour the latest Dwell NextHouse by Empyrean. Dwell's resident prefab experts, Michael Sylvester and Jay Eli, will be on hand for questions about this modern, prefabricated home. Through March 30. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; (415) 373-5100; www.dwell.com/homes/dwellhomes/siliconvalley

Residents of cities around the world – from Toronto to Tel Aviv, Chicago to Copenhagen – will turn their lights off for one hour, starting at 8 p.m. This act is a simple, yet powerful articulation of the need to address global warming.  www.earthhour.org

Tuesday, April 1

Architect Gilles Saucier comes to AIA tonight to discuss his current projects: The University of Calgary in Canada and a thirty-nine story hotel in the Kuching province of Malaysia. 5:30 p.m.; 130 Sutter Street, Suite 600; (415) 362-7397; www.aiasf.org

German filmmaker Heinz Emigholz has made several films on architects, selecting those he feels “have been sorely neglected by ‘architectural history,’” Starting with Goff in the Desert tonight, a film about Kansan architect Bruce Goff, the series of five films continues through April 17. 7:30 p.m.; 130 California Hall, 2626 Bancroft Way; (510) 642-0808; www.bampfa.berkeley.edu

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