Larry Strain, FAIA

Board of Directors

Founding Principal of Siegel & Strain Architects, known for community and sustainable design and research. Early research includes the Green Spec, one of the first guideline specifications for sustainable materials, and the Emeryville Resourceful Building Project, an affordable housing project that included an early use of whole building Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). He has led many of the firms deep green projects including three AIA COTE Top Ten winners. Larry has served on the boards of the Northern California Chapter of the USGBC, the Ecological Building Network and the Carbon Leadership Forum (CLF), and was on the research team for CLF’s Embodied Carbon Benchmarking project. Larry has been writing and speaking on materials, carbon and reusing buildings for more than 20 years, and for the last ten years has focused on reducing the total carbon footprint of the built environment.