BrianFuentes
Brian is a registered architect in the State of Colorado, a member of the AIA and has been a Certified Passive House Consultant with the Passive House Institute ()in Germany as well as the Passive HouseInstituteU.S. (). Brian graduated from the University of Oregon and Robert D. Clark Honors College with distinction in Architecture with his thesis “A Pattern Language for the Front Range”, where he also worked as volunteer on the first straw bale house in Eugene in 1998.He was the recipient of the UO’s Rosenberg Traveling Fellowship in 1999 from the University of Oregon’s Architecture program and traveled to Curitiba, Brazil to see the latest in sustainable urban planning. In his early career, Brian worked for both a structural engineering company and a commercial architecture firm that focused on governmental buildings, schools and public spaces; he’s taught architecture at the University of Colorado as honorary faculty and has lectured for the Department of Energy as well as at the International Straw Bale Conference, the Colorado/Boulder Green Building Guild, Colorado Renewable Energy Society and DasHaus Tour. Brian is passionate about reducing the built environments energy use and is constantly looking for ways to innovate. As a Colorado native, Brian feels most at home in the mountains exploring (ideally by mountain bike) with his wife Megan and their two children.