Tag archives: Robin Donaldson

Famed Santa Barbara architect Robin Donaldson has traveled the world with the recent pair of documentary films – The House: 6 Points of Departure and This Is Not a House – that chronicle his immersive work on two important homes in the Montecito foothills; the Crawford House and Hill House. Donaldson, who studied painting and […]

In the short time since its completion, Bruce Heavin and Robin Donaldson’s “Hill House” has acquired a fabled reputation among Santa Barbara design cognoscenti. Few have seen the house in person, yet rumors abound. So in a sense the recent talk about the residence was a coming out party and the first deep dive into […]

Unless you’re a dog, most of us never think about fire hydrants until you need one. Such was the case when Robin Donaldson, an architect for a residential renovation project on Padaro Lane in Carpinteria, applied for a routine building permit with the county. His plans had already been approved by the California Coastal Commission […]