Aaron relocated to the Northwest from the Northeast ten years ago (as of 2025) after stumbling into an NYC climate march, which led him to spend a day gazing at the downtown infrastructure with fresh eyes and began realizing how we are shaped by our buildings. This spiritual experience forced him to reconcile with the quality of the structures and systems he observed and spurred him to pivot his life's direction from a focus in aviation toward the improvement of our collective building practices. 

From forming the natural building program at Evergreen State College, working on crews in the South Sound and positioning himself on Olympia's Planning Commission, to eventually developing a design firm and network to form modular, collaborative cohorts ad libitum for specific projects: he's centered building science in his sphere of influence and care indefinitely.

His gaze now sets on scaling healthy building technologies while working to create access to them across income strata. He and his growing crew of collaborators combine their efforts to bring forth systems such as biogenic pre-fab, carbon-sequestering material streams, and places that will continue to thrive long after we've become memories.