Our Author + Designer

Carri Beer, AIA is the owner and principal architect of CommONEcology Radical Architecture in Baltimore, Maryland. She has experience with commercial and residential projects, government clients and private residential clients.  Carri became a LEED accredited professional in 2001, a registered architect in Maryland in 2002, Certified Permaculture Designer in 2017 with an Advanced Social Permaculture Certificate in 2020, and earned a certificate in Co-housing Design in 2023. Carri was the consultant on several of the region’s first LEED buildings and architect of the region’s first Net Zero, Foam Free Passive Houses.

She is Project Architect and Manager on new and renovated high-performance, healthy homes and small to mid-size commercial buildings, historic structures, permaculture-based landscape design, and regenerative neighborhood planning.  Carri focuses on creating architecture and places that are whole restorative systems and address high energy performance, building science, healthy indoor air quality, natural materials, resiliency, site and water restoration, social equity and beauty.

Carri served as co-chair of the AIA Baltimore Committee on the Environment and Resiliency for five years and President and Board Member of her local food cooperative for four years. She also served as the co-facilitator for the bMORE Living Building Collaborative and was on the Baltimore County Commission on Environmental Quality. She has also presented at several venues as one of the country's early architects promoting Foam-Free, High-Performance construction and Regenerative Design. 

Carri is the author of “The Radical ReWILDing of the Suburban Lawn,” self-published in Spring of 2023.