Eric Corey Freed (born 1970 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)[citation needed] is an American architect and founding principal of organicARCHITECT, which focuses on biophilic and regenerative design.[1] He has been considered to be one of the leading influential green architects worldwide.[2]
Freed grew up in Philadelphia and went to Overbrook High School. He graduated from Temple University College of Architecture with honors in 1994[3] and later received his Masters in Ecological Design from San Francisco Institute of Architecture.[4]
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 and "Best Visionary" in 2007.[6][2] 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 was founded in 1997.
The firm is noted for various community outreach programs:[citation needed]
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.
In 2015, Freed was named a LEED Fellow by Green Business Certification Inc.(GBCI).[7] In 2024, Freed was a Trailblazer Award winner at Verdical Group's annual Net Zero Conference.[8]
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