Klaus Mayer is sole proprietor of the Snowhaus, a design firm in Anchorage, Berlin, and Copenhagen. He is a registered architect in Berlin and a member of the Danish Association of Architects. He was an adjunct professor at University of Alaska Anchorage, where he taught sustainability in the built environment to construction management students. He studied architecture and received his degree at the University of Applied Science in Stuttgart, Germany. He has lived and worked in Alaska since 1995. Mayer was appointed trustee of the Alaska Design Forum in 1998 and from 1999 to 2012 was president of the board.

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