Dean Nota Architect

05/10/2023

Dean Nota FAIA receives Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Institute of Architects • Long Beach-South Bay Chapter - In recognition of significant contributions to the architectural profession.

01/27/2023

09/10/2021

https://www.dwell.com/home/the-marsh-residence-461a12a8

In 1988 I designed a small home in my neighborhood in Hermosa Beach, California. The house, designed as a twelve hundred square foot, live–work space for artist, Peggy Marsh, immediately received recognition with design awards from the AIA Los Angeles, AIA California Council and the AIA/Sunset Western Home Awards programs. Jury members from these awards programs praised the project as a “sensible strategy for the collage urbanism that surrounds the house” and part of a “new regionalism.” This seminal project has informed all of my subsequent work over a 25-year period. This house is For Sale. For more information click on the link below or contact Jane Sager 01001004 310-748-0677.

Location: Hermosa Beach, California - The Marsh residence is a timeless piece of architecture and the first house designed by Dean Nota FAIA. The house was designed for artist Peggy Marsh, as a…

11/24/2019

Farewell to my teacher, mentor, colleague and friend.

aymond Kappe’s first attempt to shape the future of California architecture ended in failure. After starting the architecture program at Cal Poly Pomona in 1968, he was fired as the department’s chairman. Kappe said it was because his program was too “free swinging.”

11/20/2018

Dean Nota Architect is featured on ArchitecturalDigest.com: Homes That Are Works of Art

Sleek, sophisticated, and well-designed, these contemporary homes have serious curb appeal

12/11/2017

At age 34, Philip M. Isaacson commissioned architect F. Frederick Bruck to design a home for him and his wife. That was 1959. Five decades later, he still lives in his ideal home—and very little has changed.

09/07/2017

The Architectural Record has announced the annual America’s Top Architectural Schools 2018 as compiled by DesignIntelligence. SCI-Arc is proud to note it ranked in the following categories:



#8 in Top Undergraduate Programs



#4 in Graduate Programs most admired by Deans and Chairs

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08/21/2017

Dean Nota will be interviewed today, by Wayne Powell on healthylife.net internet radio. For further information regarding the live show or to stream or podcast this show, follow this link: http://www.healthylife.net/RadioShow/archiveWM.htm

04/14/2017

Scaffolding Down, 30th Street Manhattan Beach

10/15/2016

The Dean Nota designed Roberson Residence, located on Flathead Lake in Northwestern Montana and competed in 1994 is for sale. This house was conceived as a vertical object, sited in counterpoint to the strong horizontal proportion of the lake - a manmade object, set in contrast to a vast, natural, Montana landscape.

02/13/2016

A chance to own a contemporary landmark home designed by Pritzker prize winner Thom Mayne and partner, Michael Rotondi, of the famed Morphosis Architects, the Lawrence Residence is a rare example of this noteworthy firm's work right here in Hermosa Beach. Mayne's other south bay project, the Landa Residence, built in 1997 in Manhattan Beach, was destroyed by a developer in 2007.

01/11/2016

Russell Abraham updates and expands the 2nd edition of, California Cool : Residential Modernism Reborn, featuring works by Dean Nota, Swatt | Miers, Jim Jennings, Scott Johnson, Kim Coleman, Craig Steely, Steven Shortridge and Jonathan Feldman among others.

Showcases the modern residential style in Southern California and includes many of California's masters of modern residential architecture. Includes outstanding photography by Russell Abraham.