Paula Baker-Laporte

Paula Baker-Laporte, FAIA, BBEC, BBNC graduated from the University of Toronto, School of Architecture in 1978 and from The International Institute of Building Biology and Ecology in 1995. In 2007, she was elected into the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects. She headed her architectural practice based in Santa Fe, New Mexico and then in Ashland Oregon since 1986. Since 1992, Paula has dedicated her practice to the precepts of environmentally sound and health-enhancing architecture, and her firm continues to lead in the fields of healthy and natural design and design and consultation for the chemically sensitive. She is founder and current CEO of EcoNest Architecture Inc. Paula has lectured, taught, and published extensively on the topic of healthy and ecological design throughout the USA and Canada. She has been an IBE instructor since. 2007 She is the primary author of Prescriptions for a Healthy House , 1st, -4th edition, (New Society Publishers 2008) and the co-author with her husband Robert Laporte, of EcoNest: Creating Sustainable Sanctuaries of Clay, Straw and Timber , (Gibbs Smith, 2005) and The EcoNest Home , (New Society 2015).

She’s a contributing author to several other books. Together, Paula and her husband Robert have developed the EcoNest® home concept. EcoNest projects have been built throughout North America and are featured in several books. Those books include Designing your Natural Home by David Pearson, Green by Design by Angela Dean, Sustainable Residential Interiors by Associates III, and Space Matters by Katherine Cox. Paula has had many articles published in nationally distributed magazines including Natural Home , Fine Homebuilding , Residential Architect , Organic Style Magazine , Yoga Journal , Inspired House and Ultimate Home . For photos of Paula’s architectural designs, articles, upcoming seminars and lectures and to contact Paula please visit the website: Paula Baker-Laporte,