faculty
Frederick Steiner
Dean, School of Architecture
Henry M. Rockwell Chair in Architecture
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The University of Texas at Austin
School of Architecture
1 University Station B7500
Austin, TX 78712
Education
Ph.D. (City and Regional Planning) University of Pennsylvania, 1986M.A. (City and Regional Planning) University of Pennsylvania, 1986
M.R.P. (Regional Planning) University of Pennsylvania, 1977
M.C.P. (Community Planning) University of Cincinnati, 1975
B.S.D. (Graphic Design) University of Cincinnati, 1972
Frederick Steiner is the dean of the School of Architecture and Henry M. Rockwell Chair in Architecture, University of Texas at Austin. As a Fulbright-Hays scholar in 1980, he conducted research on ecological planning at the Wageningen University, The Netherlands. In 1998, he was the National Endowment for the Arts Rome Prize Fellow in Historic Preservation and Conservation at the American Academy in Rome. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and an Academic Fellow of the Urban Land Institute. He is a visiting professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
Dean Steiner has worked with local, state, and federal agencies on diverse environmental plans and designs. Currently, he chairs the five-county Envision Central Texas Project, having served on its board of directors and executive committee since ECT was established in 2002. He is also currently part of a UT team that organized an exhibit on the resilience of the Gulf Coast and the city of New Orleans for the 2006 Venice Biennale. In 2005, he was on a team, selected from over 1,000 entries, to be one of five finalists in the United Flight 93 National Memorial Competition in Pennsylvania.
Dean Steiner has written numerous books, articles, and papers. His most recent book, Human Ecology: Following Nature's Lead, was published in December 2002 by Island Press. He has two edited volumes currently in press: The Essential McHarg: Writings on Design and Nature (Island Press) and Planning and Urban Design Standards: Student Edition (with Kent Butler, John Wiley & Sons).
He teaches courses in the areas of environmental impact assessment, landscape analysis, and landscape architecture theory. Dean Steiner received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in city and regional planning and a Master of Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania. He earned a Master of Community Planning and a B.S. in Design from the University of Cincinnati. Dean Steiner received an honorary M.Phil. in Human Ecology from the College of the Atlantic.