barbara h is a design practice with 30 years of experience in both commercial and residential design around the world, with a portfolio of work in airports, hospitality, civic buildings, interiors and residential architectural design. She served as Director of Interior Design on such prominent projects as:

1. Denver International Airport (Colorado)
2. The City of Oakland Administration Buildings (California)
3. Invesco Field Stadium (Colorado)
4. Incheon International Airport (South Korea)
5. Clark County Government Center (Nevada)

biography
Barbara K. Hochstetler Fentress earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from California State University in 1976, graduating with honors, and pursued graduate studies in interior design and painting at Colorado State University.

Architecture. barbara h has worked with architects throughout her entire career, including Fentress Bradburn, HNTB, Seracuse Lawler & Partners and Comeau & Associates. In 1995, she founded her own firm in order to pursue intimately scaled projects, while also continuing to work as a consultant to architectural firms.

As director of interior design at Fentress Bradburn, barbara h became widely recognized as an expert in the field of architecturally integrated interior design and the design of public spaces. She has lectured at Colorado State University, the Interior Design Institute and the national conference of the American Society of Interior Designs. She is the winner of several prestigious awards for her work on the Colorado Convention Center, the Jefferson County Government Center in Golden, Colorado, and the Natural Resources Building in Olympia, Washington. Under her leadership, Fentress Bradburn was named Interior Design Giant by Interior Design magazine in 1991.

Art. barbara h’s painting career is rooted in life-changing childhood events that drove her to explore how emotion can be conveyed visually. Though her style is primarily abstract, it contains elements of the figurative as well as primitive motifs. Her work has been included in one-woman and invitational shows, and has also been integrated into her interior design projects.

Her painting stimulates spatial thinking, just as interior design lends spatial elements to her artwork. Over many years, she has drawn on the contrast between technology and the natural and cultivated an interest in primitive art and architecture. At present, she is pursuing the intersection of the primitive and modern in both her design philosophy and her designs.

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