Sean Culman, AIA LEED AP founded Solutions as a green architecture and consulting firm over a decade ago. Sean shares his enthusiasm for exploring what is appropriate and possible given client aspirations and a unique context, then puts these ideas into practice.
“Sustainability requires us to expand the scope of consideration,” says Culman. “With buildings, it extends beyond green materials to the connection between a building’s systems, its overall form, and the site.”
Culman brings a collaborative and innovative mindset to business and design projects as an architect, consultant, and facilitator. Using this dynamic process of engagement, he works with clients, designers, and contractors to integrate built environments with living systems. A few highlights of his career include:
- Mid Century Mosaic House featured on the AIASF 2010 Home Tour
- Newly completed home renovation in San Francisco received a LEED-H Platinum rating
- A recent collaboration as a green consultant on a LEED Gold clinic for Health Care for the Homeless received USGBC Maryland 5th Annual Green Building of the Year Award
- Collaborator on a facility master plan for Lundberg Family Farms, the largest US purveyor of organic rice
- Finalist in the 2006 California Clean Tech Open with the lightest weight solar thermal panel available; he continues to share his experience as a mentor for other Green Building finalists
- Presently a board member for the Global Citizen Center and serves on the committee revising the ANSI/MTS Whole Systems Integrated Process Guide (WSIP) 2007 for Sustainable Buildings & Communities