Frederick Steiner

For the American composer and conductor, see Fred Steiner.

Frederick R. Steiner
Born	1949 Dayton, OH
Nationality	American
Other names	Fritz Steiner
Alma mater	University of Pennsylvania, University of Cincinnati
Occupation	Dean & Professor of the University of Pennsylvania School of Design

Frederick R. "Fritz" Steiner currently serves as the Dean and Paley Professor for the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, having succeeded Marilyn Jordan Taylor in 2016. He is a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and the American Academy in Rome. He teaches courses in the areas of landscape analysis, landscape architecture theory, and environmental impact assessment. His specialization is in ecological planning, historic preservation, environmental design, green building, and regional planning.

Education

Steiner earned his Bachelor of Science degree in graphic design from the University of Cincinnati in 1972, followed by a Master of Community Planning degree, also from Cincinnati, in 1975. In 1977, he earned his Master of Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1986 he earned both his Master of Arts and Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from Penn.

Career

Formerly, he was Director of the School of Planning and Landscape Architecture, College of Architecture and Environmental Design at Arizona State University and previously taught at Washington State University, the University of Colorado-Denver, and the University of Pennsylvania. He was also awarded an honorary M.Phil. in Human Ecology from the College of the Atlantic. He has also served as a city planning commissioner and has worked with community groups, as well as national environmental and conservation organizations. He has been a visiting professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, and was a Fulbright-Hays research scholar at Wageningen University in The Netherlands.

He is the former dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin, having stepped down from the position of Dean in 2016 to lead the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. Following the announcement of his new position in February 2016, Steiner stated his decision to leave UT Austin had been influenced by Texas Government Code Section 411.2031, which entitles licensed individuals to carry concealed handguns onto the campus of an institution of higher education--dubbed "Campus Carry." The Texas law went into effect on August 1, 2016.

Selected books

• The Politics of New Town Planning (1981)
• Ecological Planning for Farmlands Preservation (1981)
• The Living Landscape: An Ecological Approach to Landscape Planning (2002)
• Human Ecology: Following Nature's Lead
• Planning and Urban Design Standards (with Kent Butler 2006)
• Design for a Vulnerable Planet (2011)
• Urban Ecological Design (with Danilo Palazzo 2012)

References

• 'Imagining New Futures' keynote address by Fritz Steiner
• Zero Carbon Communities Symposium : Fritz Steiner