Restorative Home: Ecological Houses

Architect David Hertz is the founder and president of David Hertz FAIA Architects, inc. and S.E.A., the Studio of Environmental Architecture, which he established in 1984. David is a founding member of the AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) as well as the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and was involved in the first LEED Platinum Commercial and Residential Projects in the U.S. Since 1990 David has been on the Academic Advisory Committee and the faculty of the UCLA Arc-ID Program teaching sustainable design courses. David has also taught at the USC School of Architecture, SCI-ARC and Art Center College of Design. David has been serving on the Task Force of the Environment for the City of Santa Monica for over a decade, and is involved in numerous social and environmental non- profits worldwide.