Background
Freed, Eric Corey was born on August 7, 1970 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Edmond Lee and Phyllis Claire (Taylor) Freed.
Freed, Eric Corey was born on August 7, 1970 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Edmond Lee and Phyllis Claire (Taylor) Freed.
Bachelor of Architecture, Temple University, Philadelphia, 1994.
Based in San Francisco, Freed is credited with helping to establish the Sustainable Design curricula at both Academy of Art University and University of California, Berkeley Extension Program. Freed is a practitioner in the tradition of organic architecture, first developed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The Founding Chair of Architecture for The San Francisco Design Museum, he was voted "Best Green Architect" by San Francisco Magazine in 2005.
He is author of "Green Building for Dummies", published by Wiley in August 2007 and regular contributor to Natural Home Magazine, Luxe Magazine, and GreenerBuildings.com.
His firm organicARCHITECT began in 1997. The firm is noted for various community outreach programs:
organicAWARDS: an annual award recognizing the designs during the past year that are found to be both innovative and environmentally-friendly.
Events: Since 2003, organicARCHITECT produces a monthly lecture series with the leaders of green business held at The Commonwealth Club. organicEVENTS: their free, monthly organicEVENTS list currently goes to over 8,800 people in the Bay Area, alerting them to all of the green, design and sustainability events around San Francisco.
Member San San Francisco Chamber of C., 2001. Member of American Institute of Architects (member committee on environment since 2000).