Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Michelle Kaufmann is a leading green architect and designer with Michelle Kaufmann Studio. In 2002, Kaufmann founded Michelle Kaufmann Designs, a full service architecture firm specializing in sustainable design. The firm designed and built single-family and multi-family green homes using prefabricated modular technology. The firm was closed in May 2009 and Kaufmann started a new design firm, Michelle Kaufmann Studio. Her firm offers customers a variety of prefabricated homes as well as options for completely custom built homes as well. Kaufmann grew up in Iowa where she developed an understanding of the relationship between humankind and the environment. Kaufmann received her undergraduate degree from Iowa State University and her Masters from Princeton University.