Starting out his professional life with degrees in Physics and Engineering Physics, David LiaBraaten soon found himself drawn to the aesthetic sensibilities and creative traditions of his Norwegian and German ancestors. He began to pursue woodworking and wood carving, and later expanded his love of design and craftsmanship in wood to include buildings.
David founded his design firm, DesignHaus, in Bend, Oregon in 2005 after working in the design and building fields since 1997. From the start, DesignHaus has focused on innovation, livability and beauty in home design. In the last couple of years, DesignHaus has refined its focus toward sustainable, energy efficient designs. Armed with an understanding of the science behind building technology and materials, energy .... More

Michaela Mahady, AIA, is a principal in the firm SALA Architects, Inc., formerly Mulfinger, Susanka & Mahady. Since joining the firm in 1987, she has been involved in all phases of the architectural process on a wide variety of project types in locations including Minnesota, Colorado, California, Montana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa.
She has also been a principal and art glass designer for Pegasus Studio, Inc. and her art glass work has been dispayed in major exibitions and public art installations in several states.
She has lectured for various university architecture programs and has won numerous honors and awards for her architecture and glass work.
Michaela's work has been featured on several PBS series about residential architecture, and in .... More

Helios Design Group is a Boston based architecture firm offering a fresh outlook, a love of collaboration, and a focus on details. They've been designing beautiful homes and other spaces for more than twenty years, in Massachusetts and beyond.
Carol Marsh, AIA – Principal
Carol spent time in her youth dancing, writing, making art, and enjoying the waves on Venice Beach in California. She was doing ceramics when she discovered architecture, with so many of the same concerns at a larger scale – form, function, beauty, inside and outside. Carol studied architecture at the University of Southern California, and has worked for several architectural firms doing residential and institutional projects. In her twenty years of experience in architecture, she's .... More

Nick Mehl founded NJM Design Build on the principal that good design can be accessible to clients of all income levels. His designs are energy efficient and exhibit qualities of Modernism-contrasts in light/shadow, mass/transparency and contraction/expansion-without feeling cold or sterile. Designs are linked to their region through use of local materials and attention to climate and geography.
Nick Mehl received his B.Arch from the University of Notre Dame, and his M. Arch from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a licensed architect in the state of Texas and his work has been featured in the Austin American Statesman (July 2003) and on the Fine Living Network (October .... More

Bruce Millard, director and founder of the Studio of Sustainable Design, focuses on designing with an ecological approach toward a closer relationship between the earth and its people. He designs human environments, while protecting the health and beauty of the surrounding natural environment and its inhabitants. His experience in sustainable design spans 30 years. He has been a pioneer in solar and alternative energy, conservation design, and use of recycled materials since the 1970s, lecturing, teaching, designing and re-using buildings in Philadelphia, while a partner of Alley Friends Architects. He graduated with honors from the Temple University School of Architecture, where he also lectured and taught. Bruce is presently president of the Northwest EcoBuilding .... More