Nicoló Bini  is founder and president of LINE architecture. He is an award winning, internationally acclaimed architect whose work has been on the cover of AD and in Dwell, The New York Times, The Washington Post, People, Playboy, House and Garden, Monocle, Town and Country, Vogue, C magazine, Surface magazine, Angeleno magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle. His work is featured in  various books by publishers such as Taschen and Phaidon. Nic was featured in Forbes as one of the ’31 names to know’, in Angeleno Magazine as one of the ‘Nine to Know’, and his success stories have been featured on CNN, MSNBC, The Late Show, KRON and others.

Nic’s clients have ranged from celebrities such as Robert Downey Jr., Sir Elton John, Cara and Poppy Delevingne and Usher to families such as the Getty, Haas and Tisch to brands such as  Gap, Banana Republic, Rip Curl, Fred Leighton and the Mission Pacific and Seabird Hotels.

Italian by birth and rearing, Nic has lived in Italy, Australia, the US and France, and traveled extensively throughout the world. He is proficient in four languages and has taught as an Associate Professor at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, as Professor at the Florence Art Institute in Florence, Italy and has lectured at some of the world most prestigiuous design and architecture schools including SCI arch in Los Angeles, the Architecture Institute in London, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and the Art Center in Pasadena.

Nic received his BA and MA from UC Berkeley, where he was valedictorian. Nic also studied at the University of London and the Univeristá della Sapienza in Rome and worked for prestigious architectural firms in London, Rome, Florence and San Francisco before founding his own practices. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects.

Design Philosophy

LINE's unique process begins by intimately understanding the project's context, purpose and characteristics. The dream and the specifics of the place are balanced with the practicality of codes, budgets and schedules. 

Through an iterative process a design is conceived, defined and articulated across channels and then is evaluated according to the client's criteria.

Having matched purpose to design, the project is then finalized, detailed and executed with checks and balances along the way which assure that the dream comes to life in a way that respects all project parameters.