Our Team
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AK (Andea Keller) | Partner, Architect
Andrea Keller is a licensed architect with 25 years of experience in multifamily, residential and boutique hotel design. Her work seeks to bring people into greater alignment with their core values, their communities and the earth.
A key component of Andrea’s work lies in the life-long study of sacred geometry, symbols and pattern language. Andrea uses unique geometry and proportion systems for each project, bringing power and resonance to the design. As we know from epigenetics, our environment can literally change our genes – her mission is to use architecture for healing, activation, and amplification of personal power. She is currently designing healing centers worldwide.
She was a professor of Architecture at both USC School of Architecture and Otis College of Art + Design. She holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (B.A., Design of the Environment) and UCLA (M.Arch), and studied Sustainability through Gaia Education. She lectures regularly for the Institute of Classical Art + Architecture.
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Michael Palethorpe | Partner, Rammed Earth Expert
Michael has over 30 years of experience in project management, managing projects and businesses of all sizes and complexities, including being project manager for SIREWALL USA on one of the 10 largest homes in the USA, involving features and details that have never been done before in rammed earth.
Michael leads US project consultation including: SIREWALL liaison for US projects, plan review and project-specific detail recommendations, soil analysis and project specific mix design, training of local contractors, site managers and crew in SIREWALL means and methods, quality control throughout the duration of the project.
He is passionately committed to altering how people and the planet are impacted by the buildings we inhabit.
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Joss Krayenhoff | Partner, Rammed Earth Expert
Joss has over 20 years of SIREWALL experience and has played a key role in R&D helping to create and evolve the SIREWALL system. Starting as the clean-up kid on-site and advancing through the company, Joss now operates the international branch of SIREWALL and works with the SIREWALL USA core team to help manage US operations.
As our in-house expert on SIREWALL, Joss supports International and US consulting with detailed plan reviews and project-specific recommendations, mix design review and recommendations, means and methods review, and consulting on and troubleshooting challenges that may occur during a build.
Joss’ life purpose is in creating places that fundamentally shift the way people live and interact with the world. He is passionate about creating a future that he is proud to leave to his children and the planet. Joss and his wife, Jekka, own a farm that they are restoring as a small piece of this legacy.
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Shannon Harris | Partner, Interior Designer
Shannon Lee Harris is the founder of Homeself, a pioneering approach that blends neuroscience, interior design, and self-development to transform the way people experience their spaces and themselves. With over a decade of experience in real estate development and custom interior design, Shannon has led projects ranging from full-scale renovations to finely tailored finish packages, guiding clients to create environments that are as functional and resilient as they are beautiful.
In addition to her design practice, Shannon is a certified yoga teacher and holds a Neuroscience Coaching certificate, bringing a rare integration of somatic awareness, brain-based coaching, and spatial intelligence into her work. She helps clients recognize how their environments directly influence their nervous systems, moods, and behaviors — and how subtle, intentional shifts can unlock hidden parts of themselves.
Shannon’s genius lies in being a bridge between science, energy, and self-evolution. She doesn’t just design spaces — she decodes the subconscious language of the home, revealing how textures, light, rhythm, and flow can sustain well-being and call forward new expressions of self. Her work has become a love letter to wholeness, guiding people to create environments that honor every part of who they are and who they are becoming.
Through Homeself, Shannon empowers individuals, families, and communities to rewire their spaces and rewire their minds — aligning inner and outer worlds to foster resilience, clarity, and transformation.