Faculty Fellow

Frederick Steiner

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Faculty Fellow

Frederick Steiner

Dean and Paley Professor, School of Design Co-Executive Director, The McHarg Center
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Frederick Steiner is Dean and Paley Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. Previously, he served for 15 years as Dean of the School of Architecture and Henry M. Rockwell Chair in Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin. He has also taught at Arizona State University, Washington State University, the University of Colorado at Denver, and Tsinghua University. Dean Steiner was a Fulbright-Hays scholar at Wageningen University and a Rome Prize Fellow in Historic Preservation at the American Academy in Rome, where was 2013-2014William A. Bernoudy Architect in Residence. He is a Fellow of both the American Society of Landscape Architects and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture. Dean Steiner earned a Master of Community Planning and a B.S. in Design from the University of Cincinnati, and his Ph.D. and M.A. in city and regional planning and a Master of Regional Planning from PennDesign.