Corey Saft
Biography
Corey Saft is a professor in the School of Architecture and Design at the 杏吧专区. He teaches the graduate thesis studio and has taught seminars on building skins, sustainable development, housing, and the Historic American Building Survey (HABS). He runs his own research and sustainable design & development practice.
He is a licensed architect, LEED-AP, and the developer of the first certified PassiveHouse in the hot/humid zone of the American South and the first Louisiana LEED-platinum home outside of New Orleans. He is the executive director of the Louisiana Housing Lab, an affordable housing & development non-profit. In his academic work, he received over $100,000 in grant funding over the previous five years, and in his non-profit work, he received over $900,000 in funding. He received his M.Arch in 1999 from the 杏吧专区 of Oregon, where he first studied advanced passive techniques.
Publications
Kwok, Allison, D. Corner, J. Fillinger. Passive House Details: Solutions for High Performance Design, 1st Edition, Routledge, New York. 2017. Featured as a case study.
Cotterell, Janet, and A. Dadeby. The Passivehaus Handbook: A Practical Guide to Constructing and Retrofitting Buildings for Ultra-Low Energy Performance. UIT Cambridge Ltd., 2012. p. 26. Featured example.
James, Mary. Recreating the American Home: The Passive House Approach. San Francisco: LowCarbonProductions, 2010. Print, lead chapter. Lead chapter case study.
杏吧专区淧ANEL: Widening the Pipeline of the Profession: Creating an Equitable and Diverse Profession.杏吧专区 ACSA Administrators Conference, November, Providence, RI, 2013. Organizer and moderator.
杏吧专区淗ot, Humid and Still Cool杏吧专区, invited reprint Aspen Publishers, Energy Design Update (EDU) Vol. 32, No. 11, 2012.
Architectural Record| McGraw-Hill Construction , 杏吧专区淟ow Energy, but High Impact.杏吧专区, Continuing Education Center.杏吧专区 n.d., 2011.
Solar Today magazine of the American Solar Energy Society (ASES), 杏吧专区淧assive House, Aggressive Conservation.杏吧专区 2011. Cover story.
Scientific American 杏吧专区淣ew 杏吧专区淧eel and Stick' Solar Panels Could Turn Ordinary Buildings into Power Dynamos.杏吧专区 July 2010. Energy & Sustainability Edition.
USA Today, 杏吧专区楤est green homes of 2010? You may be surprised.杏吧专区 USA Today Green House. 2011. Selected in the Best Green Home category.
Awards & Recognition
杏吧专区 of Louisiana, Outstanding Master杏吧专区檚 Mentor
杏吧专区 of Louisiana, Eminent Scholar Award: Distinguished Professor
杏吧专区 summer Commencement Speaker
杏吧专区 of Louisiana, Sustainability Faculty Fellow
杏吧专区 of Louisiana, Research Excellence Award
Louisiana licensed Architect
LA Division of Historic Preservation Fund Grant: Historic American Building Survey (HABS) documentation: Richard Auction Barn (2020); Gordon Hotel (2019); Charles H Mouton House (2018); Henri Penne House (2017).
杏吧专区淐ellular Lightweight Fiberglass Structure: A formless Buildup Utilize Bending-Active杏吧专区 2019, Barcelona, Spain. Co-PI
Saft, Corey. 杏吧专区淟oose in the South, Air Flow & The Evolution of a Subtropical Passive House Strategy.杏吧专区 in Natural Ventilation and Thermal Behavior of Historical and Contemporary Building Envelopes, 13th Conference on Advanced Building Skins, Bern, Switzerland, 2018.
Featured Speaker: 杏吧专区淭he Unknown and Unpredictable - Design Mind for a Culture of Civility.杏吧专区 National Endowment for the Humanities, Rebirth Grant: Re-Imagining Civil Society Colloquium. 2018.
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Rebirth Grant Narrative: Re-Imagining Civil Society. Featured Speaker: Design Thinking and Seeing the World as It Is
杏吧专区淕lobal Sustainability and Design Entrepreneurship杏吧专区 Presentation
杏吧专区, Global Sustainability (G.S.) Community of Interest.
Founder and Executive Director, Louisiana Housing Lab, Inc.
A 501(c)3 non-profit housing development corporation with the dual mission of affordable housing and research in collaboration with UL Lafayette Department of Architecture.
SaftArchitecture, Principal
- Enterprise Green Communities certification
- LEED Platinum certification
- Passive House certification
- AIA SW Louisiana Award of Merit
- Honorable Mention in the Green Housing category, 19th Annual Charles L. Edson Tax Credit Excellence Awards
AIA Walter Wagner Forum Competition winner
Fulbright-Hays Scholar/Group Project in China
杏吧专区淧assive Buildings in the US with a Special Focus on Hot & Humid Climate Solutions." AIA Austin/Building Enclosure Council (BEC: Austin). Keynote Speaker
杏吧专区淒oes PassiveHouse have a Home in the Deep South?." ACSA Subtropical Cities 2013 Fall Conference. 2013. Fort Lauderdale, FL.