Rob Pyatt is a Senior Instructor and Research Associate teaching in the Environmental Design Program at the University of Colorado Boulder since 2008, as well as the Director of the Native American Sustainable Housing Initiative. He has extensive experience in design-build and community outreach projects focused in rural and tribal communities.. His research interests include affordable housing design, tribal housing, housing design education, sustainable technologies and alternative materials and methods of construction . Rob Pyatt is a Senior Instructor and Research Associate teaching in the Environmental Design Program at the University of Colorado Boulder since 2008, as well as the Director of the Native American Sustainable Housing Initiative. He has extensive experience in design-build and community outreach projects focused in rural and tribal communities.. His research interests include affordable housing design, tribal housing, housing design education, sustainable technologies and alternative materials and methods of construction .