Teaching
Q: Did Norberto's experience as a teacher reinforce his connection with architecture?
A: Until his official retirement as a tenure Full Professor, Norberto taught at various levels of academia. While earning his first college degree, he worked as an art teacher at Jose Marti Elementary School in Cordoba, Argentina. After completing his master's degree, he began his academic career as an Associate Professor of Architecture at Santa Fe Catholic University in Argentina. After relocating to the U.S., he continued teaching at Tulane University in New Orleans, ultimately concluding his academic career at California State Polytechnic University (Cal Poly) in Pomona, CA, where he became a tenure Full Professor. He taught there for over 20 years and was honored as a Professor Emeritus of Architecture.
Norberto’s academic involvement was not limited just to teach design and architectural theory. He understood the need to expose students to a different cultural awareness and community engagements. For more than 20 years he organized summer programs in different geographical locations of the Americas, Europe and China. He traveled with students to remote places like the Amazon River basin, Machu Picchu in Peru, all the Mexican pre-Columbian developments, plus exploring China and some Arabs and European sites. Teaching and experiencing different geographical and architectural spaces, further expanded Norberto's design explorations.
 2002 The renown master architect Oscar Niemeyer and Norberto, making a presentation at Niemeyer's office in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil |
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To connect the students with the community at large, he founded and became the Director of OCCUR (Outreach Community Center for Urban Research), a Cal Poly Pomona off-campus studio where students from Architecture, Planning, Landscape Architecture and Arts got involved with applied research while working with community projects.
American Planning Association (APA) of California Chapter awarded Norberto Nardi Academic Award of Cal Poly Pomona Outreach Community Center for Urban Research (OCCUR)
 Norberto dancing with a native tribe in the Amazon Forest |  Visiting with students the Frei Otto's structure in Munich, Germany. |  Playing violin in a wedding in Dalian, China |  First time in Xi'an, China |
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 Teaching at Suzhou, China. |  Norberto improvising with Mariachis in Tenampa, Mexico |  Faculty visiting Paris, France. |