He is sole proprietor of ‘the snowhaus’ a design firm in Anchorage and Berlin. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage where he teaches sustainability in the build environment to construction management students. Klaus studied architecture and received his degree at the University of Applied Science in Stuttgart, Germany. He has lived and worked in alaska since 1995. From 2001-2013 he was co-founder and partner of Mayer Sattler-Smith, LLC. Since in Alaska, he was appointed trustee of the Alaska Design Forum in 1998 and from 1999 to 2012 was Board President. Klaus was named a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University graduate school of Design for the academic year 2004-2005. He is a frequent guest critic at universities such as Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Michigan, University of Munich and others.TERM EXPIRES: 2019