Robert L. Ooley, FAIA

Hi, and welcome to my pages on the net. I am a native Californian, living on the Central Coast in Santa Barbara. While growing up, I did live in a few other western states but have spent most of my life in California. The main page image show something I enjoy doing while at the beach...the balancing of rocks on each other, with the Santa Barbara Warf in the background.

Becoming an architect is my childhood dream, and when I received that first license certificate, I was over the moon.
I can remember the hours of time spent in the back yard while growing up constructing cities to the scale of my hot wheel cars. What great fun. I am still having fun designing and building structures to scale.

The early part of my career was spent in the private sector working for local Santa Barbara architectural firms. The last 25 years or so have been in the public sector. The public sector exprience is very diverse afording me the opportuinty to be involved in every type of project you can think of, from housing to jails. I have to say that my favority projects are those for first responders--fire stations and medical clinics.

Writing has always been exciting for me...combining my love of architecture with the joy of story telling has provided opportunities to work on a number of books for publication. Additionally, I have had the opportunity to pen a number of short stage productions in support of local project fundraising efforts.

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