Fenno Hoffman is a practicing architect, urban designer and planning consultant. His projects include single and multi-family housing, hotels, country clubs, restaurants, schools, university and religious facilities, corporate headquarters, retail centers, mixed-use projects, military & public safety facilities and new town plans in locations worldwide. He also teaches advanced architecture and urban design studios on infill development. Two recent studios at CU produced schemes for the University Hill business district and Boulder’s 450 acre Transit Village Site.

Fenno also writes online about architecture, urban design and reforming professional education. He lectures regionally, comparing modern environmental design with traditional city planning and illustrating how to make familiar and beautiful neighborhoods with dignified housing, walkable access to daily activities, efficient transit, a lower consumption of natural resources, lower carbon footprint, higher economic performance and a higher quality social life.

Fenno has won design awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Institute of Architects. He sits on the AIA National Committee on Design, is an active member of the Congress for New Urbanism and served on CU’s Vision Task Force for Long Range Planning. He is a Trustee of the Jarrow Montessori School and Boulder’s Dairy Center for the Arts. He was elected to serve a five year elected term on Boulder's Downtown Design Advisory Board and currently Executive Director of the Architects & Planners of Boulder (APOB) a 300 member non-profit group that reviews land use policy.

He was raised in New York, Philadelphia, Connecticut and Maine and has also lived in Europe and traveled globally, including thousands of miles by motorcycle, photographing cities and towns all over the US and Canada. He worked in an emergency room and went to film school before becoming an architect. He has Architecture & Environmental Design degrees from CU and the University of Pennsylvania. He has lived in Boulder for 26 years and has four children and a baby due in November.