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Saglinda H Roberts, MSSD, CID-NJ, NCIDQ, LEED Green Assoc.

Associate Professor

Contact Information

Saglinda H Roberts, MSSD, CID-NJ, NCIDQ, LEED Green Assoc.

Jefferson - East Fall Campus
4201 Henry Avenue
SEED Center, Room 120
Philadelphia, PA 19144

Email Saglinda H. Roberts

215-951-2958

Associate Professor

Education

MS - Sustainable Design, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia PA

BS - Interior Design, Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Publications

  • 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
  • Sustainable Design for the Built Environment 2nd Ed, an easy to read, comprehensive guide to sustainable design across time, scale, and points of view. 
  • 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. 

Biography

Saglinda is an assistant 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 currently working on Resilient and Adaptable Design for the Built Environment: A Holistic Approach to the Design of Neighborhoods, Buildings and Sites, and the 5th Edition of Space Planning Basics, a seminal textbook and recommended reading for the NCIDQ and ARE exams.

She is also the founding principle of a consulting firm which focuses on bridging the gap between traditional aesthetics and restorative, integral sustainable design

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