With no formal training in architecture, design or landscape solutions, Keith York(the current owner of the Craig Ellwood Bobertz house) never foresaw becoming a devoted proponent of all three in the city of San Diego which he loves so dearly.

It wasn’t until early 1999, when a plan to relocate closer to San Diego State University, York’s place of work at the time, and a short conversation on a lawn in front of a stark, gently foreboding facade, that the now flourishing seed was planted.

Believing that the structure was not so different to the other 1950’s constructions on the street, the owner gave no clue as to the house’s origins but did gave away one piece of information that would ignite in York the desire to hand deliver a letter of enquiry within a few days; beyond the vast, opaque redwood` walls, the house was comprised of floor to ceiling glass walls.

Unbeknownst to him and the house’s then owner, York had stumbled across Craig Ellwood’s Bobertz House.