Mark R. Blubaugh is a LEED Accredited Professional with architect's licenses in Washington, Oregon, and California.

Mark has a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Washington. Mark's thesis design was an arts magnet high school emphasizing daylighting and solar energy on the site of what has become the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle.

Mark's undergraduate degree in architecture is from the University of California at Berkeley, and included study under sustainable design pioneers Sim Van der Ryn and Peter Calthorpe at Berkeley in the early 1980's.