Andrea is a licensed Architect in the State of Oregon. She holds a Master’s degree in Architecture from the University of Nebraska and a Healthier Materials and Sustainable Building certificate from The New School – Parsons School of Design.
Andrea joined Paula Baker-Laporte and EcoNest Architecture in 2015 and became the firm’s Materials Research Specialist. She has developed protocols for finding, vetting, and maintaining a database of healthy building materials which is the basis of EcoNest’s Healthy Home Consulting practice. For more about EcoNest Architecture, visit our website: https://www.econestarchitecture.com/
She is on a continuous quest for knowledge about the ever-changing world of healthy and sustainable materials and is passionate about sharing this knowledge with others. Andrea firmly believes that healthy, nurturing spaces should be accessible to everyone and is consciously focusing her architectural career on creating healthy and sustainable homes for her clients while bringing the practice of building without harmful substances into mainstream design and construction.