Testimonials

Steve designed and built our family’s dream house in Malibu, which we’ve loved for the past seven years. The aesthetic and quality is sublime. Not only has the house held up incredibly well to a family with three boys, it’s remained timeless and modern, without succumbing to passing design fads or short-lived trends. It even survived the awful Palisades fire!

Can’t recommend Steve’s work highly enough. This is the architect you go to for modern yet warm dream house designs that’ll last and withstand both a family and the elements of Malibu.

David Heinemeier Hansson

As a behavioral economist, I am very familiar with the “planning fallacy:” building a house will cost you twice your budget and take you twice the time you envisioned. Designing and building a house with Steve proved the planning fallacy wrong! You could literally describe to him in plain English what you and your family need in term of function and like in terms of aesthetics, close your eyes, venture to Italy for 18 months to drink fine wine (while checking email once a month to provide feedback), and come back to find the house of your dreams ready for you – within budget and on time.

Thanks you Steve for building our house. You are an amazing architect and a mensch.

Professor Shlomo Benartzi, UCLA

Steve is intelligent, experienced, creative and responsive. He is incredibly easy to work with. When it came to design, he listened to what I wanted and drafted architectural plans that were beyond my wildest expectations. I couldn’t be happier with the amazing house that he designed for us. He also provided the support necessary to help us deal with planning commission intricacies and the permit process through the City of Malibu. I would definitely give him my highest recommendation.

Stacy Cluniers-Ross

Steve Kent designed a beautiful modern house in the Hollywood Hills for myself and my then partner. The design process was very collaborative and we hired Steve based upon seeing (and wanting to buy) some of his other houses in Malibu. I also used Steve to remodel a historical house in Nichols Canyon from top to bottom. In both projects, Steve designed exactly what I had been dreaming of with skill, humor and exceptional talent.

Working with Steve was always a pleasure. He was consistently on top of both projects, timely and provided valuable design and construction input. I became friends with Steve as a result of working together and I cannot praise his work within or design vocabulary enough. If you are looking for an architect who blends flawless design skill with attention to detail and budget, as well as a fun collaborator in your design project, I highly recommend Steve.

Ron Goldberg

Steven Kent is very professional and his designs are exceptional! He is easily accessible & communicates well with his clients. We feel especially lucky to be working with him on our dream house!

Linda Maitra

Being a professional realtor for over 20 years I’ve had the opportunity to work with many builders within the Malibu marketplace. I can say beyond a shadow of a doubt that Steve Kent is one of the finest individuals I’ve worked with. He carefully listens to the needs of the clients, he pays close attention to detail, he designs incredible looking properties and his end product is always superb.
There are always choices when designing and building however I believe you’ll find Steve Kent’s level of performance to be top of the class, his integrity matches that, and I believe you’ll be 100% satisfied with anything you do with him. I highly recommend his services.

Kathy Ellis