Education
After studying design in Rome, Italy and interning in Boston, Massachusetts, Doerr received his Bachelor of Architecture Degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1989.
After studying design in Rome, Italy and interning in Boston, Massachusetts, Doerr received his Bachelor of Architecture Degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1989.
Doerr spent two years as an architectural intern in San Francisco, California then earned his Master’s Degree at the University of California at Berkeley in 1993. Doerr then worked in Germany designing mixed-use projects and multi-family housing before moving to Colorado. Doerr is a Green Points certified architect and past chair of the Colorado chapter of the American Institute of Architects (American Institute of Architects) Committee on the Environment where he authored the Green Architecture Checklist for residences and edited the commercial checklist.
He helped edit the Rocky Mountain edition of The Sustainable Design Resource Guide.
He is a professional advisor for the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) Green Home Guide. Doerr is a regular speaker on green building, has taught architecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and green building at Naropa University.