Dave’s Bio Awards Trainings
Overview
Dave’s life work is designing environmentally-friendly homes,
businesses and landscapes. He has created numerous transformative
buildings full of heart, soul and spirit.
Early work
First work after architecture school (B. Arch., Penn State) was on the
founding staff which built Elizabeth Wright Ingraham’s (Frank Lloyd
Wright’s granddaughter) legendary environmental institute on the
Colorado High Plains.
At age 26
Project Director for the architect (Malcolm Wells) for the largest
privately-funded solar building in America (at the time) – the Cary
Arboretum of the New York Botanical Gardens.
Major roles with pioneers in the sustainable design field:
Malcolm Wells in New Jersey
EHDD in San Francisco
Vice president of Van der Ryn Architects in Sausalito
Family home focus
Dave has designed environmentally-friendly new homes, remodels, and additions
in California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and New York, ranging from urban to off-grid rural.
Years of complex projects
Ranging from major aquariums, to the highest elevation U.S. embassy in the world
(La Paz, Bolivia) to laboratories, libraries, educational, child care, churches and spiritual
centers, commercial and retail facilities, restaurants, land master planning (Turtle Bay
Discovery Park in Redding) and wellness centers.
Some of the more unusual ventures
1. Designing functional Flying Buttresses to save the Gothic revival St Dominic’s
Church in San Francisco after the Loma Prieta earthquake (at EHDD)
2. Land planning for organic burial (with Ecological Design Institute)
3. In three weeks – transforming San Francisco rowhouses (originally built
circa 1965) from a rundown condition to bright, welcoming and efficient thru the
strategic design/build of new finishes, colors and plantings.
Trainer and Teacher
Dave trains other professionals and students in innovative approaches in green
building, healthy homes and environmental design.
Dave provides courses and workshops offered through
De Anza College in Silicon Valley, San Francisco Institute of Architecture, Dominican University of
California (San Rafael), the University of California at Berkeley extension in San Francisco and others.
Certifications
Certified by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards
Licensed Architect, multiple states
LEED Accredited Professional
First-ever “Livable Building” Award by the nation’s premier organization of
building scientists (the Center for the Built Environment) – for both energy
innovation and actual user’s satisfaction. Other awards include AIA San Francisco,
Environmental Design + Construction, ASHRAE Technology Award Region 10,
Silicon Valley Water Conservation Award, GRHC Green Roofs of Excellence,
Columbia Solar Energy Association (Pacific Northwest), Passive Solar Home
competition winner Portland General Electric, etc.
Media on projects (partial list)
New York Times, San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle, Sunset,
People Magazine, Yoga Journal, Environmental Building News, Green Source,
Marin Independent Journal, Denver Post, Portland Oregonian, Willamette Week,
Cupertino Courier, Environmental Design + Construction, Landscape Architecture,
Chronicle of Higher Education, Engineering News Record, Organic Gardening,
Architectural Record, etc.
Talks on green design (partial list)
Commonwealth Club of California, Stanford, UC Santa Barbara, UC Merced,
Planning Cultures of Wellness Conf. (SCUP in Long Beach), Packard Foundation,
Green Tech Workshop (Foothill-De Anza), City of Cupertino, Healthy House Clinic
(San Rafael), Solfest of Real Goods Solar Living Center, Oregon Museum of Science
and Industry, Oregon Humanities, HOPES Conf. (Univ. of Oregon,) Umpqua Community
College, League of Women Voters conference (Reading, Penna.), Designed Collective of
Loczi Design (San Francisco), Osaka Global School (sessions in Cupertino)
Ecological Society of America national conference, Point Reyes Books, etc.
Affiliations
Novato Planning Academy
Energy Management and Building Science adjunct faculty De Anza College
Environmental Studies Department (Emeritus)
University of California at Berkeley Extension, San Francisco
Adjunct faculty, Art and Design Department (Emeritus)
Wildlife Corridor team for Coyote Valley Landscape Institute
Ecological Design Collaborative
Deep nature connection movement of Jon Young, 8 Shields Institute
and allied organizations
US Green Building Council, Redwood Empire Chapter (USGBC-REC)
Pattern Language Association