About DOMU DOMU is Laura Joines, AIA, an architect committed to a sustainable and simple world.  Laura is the winner of numerous design awards, including most recently a 2016 AIA Design Award for LZZ House in San Luis Obispo, the 2011 USGBC Green School Award for Besant Hill School, and the coveted 2010 AIA Merit Design Award.  The award commends the design of prefabricated music practice rooms for Besant Hill School in Ojai, California.  This is her 5th AIA design award since 2004.  In 2008 she won the AIA design award for the Teixeira House in San Luis Obispo.  Via her award winning innovative designs, Joines incorporates proven sustainable technologies into all projects.  She believes that sustainability is a minimum requirement, a sieve through which all works must pass to be considered great design. DOMU not only designs buildings, but extends design into the details by offering their sustainable, beautiful and practical line of furnishings and organizational systems:  DOMUdesign.com. DOMU’s mission is simple: create modern design that is beautiful, practical, and affordable both in price and in its use of global resources.  Many of these principles came through her work with MOME Architects where she was a founder and principal with Tom di Santo. Joines is a former tenured Professor of Architecture at California Polytechnic, San Luis Obispo. She received her A.B. from Vassar College in Geography/Anthropology, studying abroad at King’s College, London and the London School of Economics.  For graduate work she attended Columbia University and the Architectural Association, London.  She was awarded an M.ARCH from NC State University, School of Design.