Who

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.

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, an award winning Denver firm. She is active in the Denver chapter of the AIA and recently served as a jury member for the AIA Young Architects Awards. Renée lives in Boulder, Colorado with her husband and two children, Sebastian and Francesca.