MS - Sustainable Design, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia PA
BS - Interior Design, Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Saglinda H Roberts, MSSD, CID-NJ, NCIDQ, LEED Green Assoc.
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Jefferson - East Fall Campus
4201 Henry Avenue
SEED Center, Room 120
Philadelphia, PA 19144
Associate Professor
Education
Publications
- Sustainable Design for the Built Environment 2nd Ed, an easy to read, comprehensive guide to sustainable design across time, scale, and points of view.
- Healthcare Design Basics, a step-by-step guide lead students through the most important elements of broad range of ambulatory facilities in a clear, concise, and approachable way allowing them to address the functional, emotional, psychological, and physiological needs of patients, their care givers, and medical professionals.
- Sustainable Design Basics, a step-by-step process for creating a sustainable design project that integrates cultural connection, ecosystem restoration, and beauty along with resource conservation
- Chapter 3 in Sustainable Structures in Special Structural Topics: Architect’s Guidebook to Structures, shows architectural and engineering students how they can make a difference in the sustainability of a project from the very beginning of the process.
- Currently in Progress: Resilient and Adaptive Design for the Build Environment: A Holistic Approach to the Design of Neighborhoods, Buildings and Sites, the first book of its kind to address the Resilient and Adaptive design of the built environment in a comprehensive way at multiple scales and project typologies going beyond climate change by providing a step-by-step methodology based on systems thinking and integral sustainable design.
- Space Planning Basics 5th Edition, a well-established foundational design text used by many design programs and is recommended study material for the National Council of Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ) and Architectural Registration Exam (ARE) updated to reflect the latest professional, code, and sustainability practices.
Biography
Saglinda is an associate professor in the Masters of Sustainable Design program and is licensed as a Certified Interior Designer in the state of New Jersey, and is a LEED Green Associate. She has over 30 years of extensive professional experience in a broad range of project typologies and has won numerous local and AIA design awards
Her focused research is on the importance of applying a multiple perspective analysis methodology to the beginning of the design process that examines the occupant, societal, ecological, cultural, and aesthetic stakeholder needs along with the performative goals of a project.
She has published widely on this topic and has presented her research internationally. She is also the founding principle of a consulting firm which focuses on bridging the gap between traditional aesthetics and restorative, integral sustainable design.