Architect Robert Nebolon: Keeping it in context
Architect Robert Nebolon’s award winning designs emerge from neighborhoods where they are located by Stephanie Cartozian Robert Nebolon grew up in Rancho Palos Verdes in a sprawling ranch style home that had two front doors because the house was so long. Its unconventional design, he said, is in part responsible for the unconventional approach he takes to architecture. Robert Nebolon grew up in Palos Verdes and began his own architectural practice in Berkeley, California in 1993. Neblolon attended Miraleste High School in the late ‘70s, and now lives in Berkeley, where he went to undergraduate school. He subsequently attended the University of Washington for his degree in architecture. Neblolon likened designing homes to juggling 20 balls in the air, with each ball representing a constraint. There are standard constraints, such as budgets,which require negotiating with the homeowner. And there is precedent, which in Nebolon’s words can be “handcuffing.” But with constraints come opportunities to be creative, he says. His Q House, also known as the Marin County Tiny House, won the American Institute of Architects (AIA) San Francisco Design Award in 2021. The name comes from…
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