MICHELLE NERMON
ABOUT
Michelle Nermon is an artist, educator, urban designer and licensed architect (California) dedicated to the creation and preservation of equitable, well-designed places for people and the environment. She is faculty at the City College of San Francisco.
Michelle earned a B.A. in Rhetoric and a B.A. in Architecture with honors from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008. Upon graduating, she interned at mOrphosis architects in LA, collaborating with a team in their digital fabrication and modeling lab. She later interned with Public Architecture, contributing to The Power of Pro Bono (2010).
She contributed to a full range of project types at Rothschild Doyno Collaborative in Pittsburgh, PA. Projects ranged from large-scale urban planning, to new multi-family (market rate and affordable) housing, to adaptive reuse. Over four years with RDCollab, she gained experience in all project phases from planning through design and construction administration.
Following RDCollab, Michelle joined the planning team at MW Steele Group and collaborated on various local, urban projects in the incresingly dense San Diego region.
She recently resided in Oaxaca, Mexico, where she participated in multiple community and natural building projects while maintaining a blog about her experience.
