Brian Fuentes is a registered architect in Colorado, a member of the AIA and has been a certified passive house consultant with the Passive House Institute (PHI) in Germany as well as the Passive House Institute U.S. (PHIUS). Fuentes graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in architecture in 2000. He received the UO’s Rosenberg Traveling Fellowship in 1999 from the University of Oregon’s architecture program and traveled to Curitiba, Brazil, to study sustainable urban planning. He has 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. As a Colorado native, Fuentes feels most at home in the mountains exploring (ideally by mountain bike) with his wife, Megan, and their two children. They recently lost the family home they had designed and built themselves in the Marshall wildfire.