Corey Saft

Corey Saft
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Corey Saft is the program coordinator for architecture and a professor in the School of Architecture and Design.

Biography

Corey Saft is a professor in the School of Architecture and Design at the University of Louisiana at 麻豆传媒app. 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 University 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.

鈥淧ANEL: Widening the Pipeline of the Profession: Creating an Equitable and Diverse Profession.鈥 ACSA Administrators Conference, November, Providence, RI, 2013. Organizer and moderator.

鈥淗ot, Humid and Still Cool鈥, invited reprint Aspen Publishers, Energy Design Update (EDU) Vol. 32, No. 11, 2012.

Architectural Record| McGraw-Hill Construction , 鈥淟ow Energy, but High Impact.鈥, Continuing Education Center.鈥 n.d., 2011.

Solar Today magazine of the American Solar Energy Society (ASES), 鈥淧assive House, Aggressive Conservation.鈥 2011. Cover story.

Scientific American 鈥淣ew 鈥淧eel and Stick' Solar Panels Could Turn Ordinary Buildings into Power Dynamos.鈥 July 2010. Energy & Sustainability Edition.

USA Today, 鈥楤est green homes of 2010? You may be surprised.鈥 USA Today Green House. 2011. Selected in the Best Green Home category.

Awards & Recognition

University of Louisiana, Outstanding Master鈥檚 Mentor

University of Louisiana, Eminent Scholar Award: Distinguished Professor

University of Louisiana at 麻豆传媒app summer Commencement Speaker

University of Louisiana, Sustainability Faculty Fellow

University 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).

鈥淐ellular Lightweight Fiberglass Structure: A formless Buildup Utilize Bending-Active鈥 2019, Barcelona, Spain. Co-PI

Saft, Corey. 鈥淟oose in the South, Air Flow & The Evolution of a Subtropical Passive House Strategy.鈥 in Natural Ventilation and Thermal Behavior of Historical and Contemporary Building Envelopes, 13th Conference on Advanced Building Skins, Bern, Switzerland, 2018.

Featured Speaker: 鈥淭he Unknown and Unpredictable - Design Mind for a Culture of Civility.鈥 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

鈥淕lobal Sustainability and Design Entrepreneurship鈥 Presentation
University of Louisiana at 麻豆传媒app, 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 麻豆传媒app 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

鈥淧assive Buildings in the US with a Special Focus on Hot & Humid Climate Solutions." AIA Austin/Building Enclosure Council (BEC: Austin). Keynote Speaker

鈥淒oes PassiveHouse have a Home in the Deep South?." ACSA Subtropical Cities 2013 Fall Conference. 2013. Fort Lauderdale, FL.