In 1979,

Aaron Blumenhein came to life in Richardson, Texas. In his early years, he would learn the value his family placed on generating possibilities and creating positive lifestyle directions. He adopted the arts of diligence, organization and rationality from his mother, while gaining a savvy for diverse life experience, an unrelenting pursuit of goals, and the ability to surround himself with extraordinary human beings from his father.

With his loving family, Aaron spent part of his childhood in the city of San Francisco, inspired by how urban walls share the land with ocean wilderness. This was a place of vast energy and a place of the most comfortable nothingness.

Continuing with these positive lifestyle directions, he spent the next 17 years in the Midwest, naturally taking the path of a builder, an architect, and a designer. He sought liberating experiences in competitive sports, various social realms, jobs of intense physical labor and jobs of delicate craft. He believed that the study of architecture would be enough of a gateway to develop his mind and begin building a lifestyle of his choice. Following his formal architectural education at The University of Missouri at Kansas City, The Santa Chiara Study Center in Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy, and Kansas State University, his gateway was formed.

Continuing to live, work and travel, Aaron returned to Texas to begin his professional career as an architect. Living in San Antonio and Austin for a combined period of 4 years, he became decisive in his longtime goal of returning to the Bay Area and returning to his basic love of drawing. Over the past several years, he has been building a project of rich illustrations and written narratives of his dreams. The project is intended to become a subconscious autobiography and to reveal his life and conflict through this collection of unconventional notes.

He intends to settle in San Francisco and continue to reach significant levels of social, community and professional interaction. Specifically, he makes himself available in the Bay Area to teach. Through drawing, sketching and design thinking classes, he offers a comprehensive means of connecting mind and body for people of all interest levels. For young architecture or design students, he is available for 3-D modeling instruction, as well as instruction in Photoshop and similar rendering programs.

Most significantly, his hopes lie in the sharing and instilling of motivation, momentum and in the creation of choices for the positive lifestyles of those he works with and guides.

Certificate in Urban Planning - Kansas State University