Renée del Gaudio’s architectural vision has emerged from years of work with firms around both the San Francisco Bay and the Denver/Boulder area of Colorado. Her designs have included innovative homes in mountains and coastal landscapes, as well as wineries, community pool houses and public art. She is a LEED Accredited Professional. LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is the U.S. Green Building Council's top certification for environmentally sustainable architecture.
Renée graduated from the University of Michigan and immediately moved to the mountain landscapes of Colorado. She spent several years in Boulder, Colorado, where she began her path of architecture at the environmental design firm of Barrett Studio Architects. She then moved to Seattle, where she began studies for her MA in Architecture from the University of Washington. During graduate school, Renée gravitated towards social and environmental design and worked with the student design-build workshop known as BaSiC Inititative. Renée completed her thesis, the design of an expeditionary learning school, under Dave Miller of the Miller Hull Partnership in Seattle.
While completing her master's degree Renée also designed Elk House, which was featured in August 2002 by Dwell Magazine. In 2004, Renée was named one of “America’s Top 25 Young Designers” by House Beautiful magazine.
In the San Francisco Bay area, Renée has worked with the design-build office of Leger Wanaselja Architecture, an ecological design firm known for their reuse of salvaged materials, and Backen Gillam Architects, a residential and winery design firm. Before moving back to Colorado, she and her husband, Ross Wehner, took a year off from their careers and traveled through Peru in a jeep. The result was the first edition of Moon Handbooks Peru, a travel guidebook now sold widely in the United States.
In Colorado, Renée worked three years with Semple Brown Design, which was voted AIA Colorado Firm of the Year in 2005. She is active in the Denver chapter of the AIA and recently served as a jury member for the AIA Young Architects Awards in 2008. Renée lives in Denver, Colorado with her husband and two children, Sebastian and Francesca.
Renée del Gaudio
