- architecture
- prefab
- interiors
- design
Nottoscale is a Bay Area based architecture and design studio that combines a distinctively modernist European approach with an American sense of innovation and curiosity. Our unique background of being fully immersed in diverse cultural settings and mindsets enables us to approach projects with a fresh perspective in order to create a unique, innovative and singular design for our clients.
As a multidisciplinary design driven practice, we focus on an integrative and collaborative process that explores a deeper connectivity between site, space and user. Our projects range from custom residential, off-grid and prefab homes to ADU’s, remodels and commercial projects such as restaurants, clubs, retail stores, doctor offices and public structures both in the US and abroad.
Our work is rooted in an exploration and generation of a vocabulary that is informed by program, process, the innovative use of material and an emphasis of spatial relationships. We use the analysis and integration of given constraints – like site conditions, technical as well as material properties, economic limits and program requirements – as an opportunity for creativity, emphasizing the unique character of each project.
Nottoscale’s work has received national and international awards and has been widely published in publications such as The New York Times, Wallpaper, Metropolis, Sunset Magazine and Architectural Record, to name a few.
Peter Strzebniok
Originally from Germany, Peter has lived and worked in various countries in Europe, Asia and the US. This diverse geographic and cultural exposure forms the basis of his holistic design approach that – at its core – combines European modernism with a site-specific naturalist sensibility.
He graduated from the Technical University in Berlin with a Diploma in Architecture and received his Master of Architecture from Ball State University, Indiana in 1996. Since then, Peter has worked on a wide array of projects ranging from large-scale civic buildings such as universities and museums, to restaurants, night clubs, doctor’s offices, residential ground up buildings, interiors and design objects. Notable projects include OMA’s Student Center at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum in San Francisco and Renzo Piano’s California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.
In 2006 Peter co-founded nottoscale with the objective to create a design driven studio that explores the intersection between site, space, materiality and building technology to create sustainable and unique works of architecture.
Peter has lectured on prefabrication at various international conferences and taught architectural design studios at the California Academy of Arts, the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and the International Program of Design and Architecture at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.
Peter is a licensed architect in California, Germany and the European Union.