Frederick Steiner

Frederick R. Steiner
Frederick R. Steiner
Born	1949 (age 74–75); Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Pennsylvania; University of Cincinnati
Occupation	Environmental Planner

Frederick R. "Fritz" Steiner is an American ecologist who currently serves as the Dean and Paley Professor for the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, having succeeded Marilyn Jordan Taylor in 2016.^[1] 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

City and Regional Planning

from Penn. At the time he was a student in the Penn Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, it was chaired by Ian McHarg. As a Teaching Fellow at Penn in 1983, Steiner coordinated the LARP 501 studio with McHarg.

Career

Formerly, he was Director of the School of Planning and Landscape Architecture, College of Architecture and Environmental Design 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,^[2] 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.

In 2019, Steiner worked with Richard Weller, Karen M’Closkey, Billy Fleming, and William Whitaker to organize Design With Nature Now to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Ian McHarg's landmark book. The celebration involved a conference, three exhibitions, a book, and a special issue of the journal Socio-Ecological Practice Research.

Also in 2019, the University of Pennsylvania School of Design was renamed the Stuart Weitzman School of Design.

Selected books

The Politics of New Town Planning (1981)
Ecological Planning for Farmlands Preservation (1981)
The Living Landscape: An Ecological Approach to Landscape Planning (1991)
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)
Nature and Cities: The Ecological Imperative for Urban Design and Planning (editor with George F. Thompson and Armando Carbonell 2016)

References

^ "Frederick Steiner Named Dean of Penn Design". Penn News. 25 February 2016.
^ Saffron, Inga (February 29, 2016). "New Penn dean explains why gun law drove him from Texas". The Philadelphia Inquirer.

External links

[1] "Frederick Steiner Named Dean of Penn Design". Penn News. 25 February 2016.

[2] Saffron, Inga (February 29, 2016). "New Penn dean explains why gun law drove him from Texas". The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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