Fant graduated with Honors from Washington University in St. Louis, earning a Master of Architecture. He received the Alpha Rho Chi Medal and the Christner Inc. Endowed Scholarship. In 2011, Fant was part of a design-winning team in St. Louis, creating "Saltworks," a helix-shaped structure outside the Kemper Museum of Art. This innovative piece garnered recognition from various design and architecture blogs. Before graduate school, Fant interned at Brian Gille Architects Ltd in New Orleans, contributing to projects like rebuilding the Community Church Unitarian Universalist post-Hurricane Katrina. He also restored historic residences in the French Quarter. During his undergrad at Clemson University, Fant studied in Genoa, Italy, and later, as a graduate student, he taught at The Alberti Program-Architecture for Young People in St. Louis. In 2011, he returned as an invited lecturer and received the Rudolph E. Lee Award for undergraduate architecture.
