Weitzman School dean Fritz Steiner wins CELA's Lifetime Achievement Award

Frederick “Fritz” Steiner, the dean of the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design, has been honored with the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA)’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Steiner, who also served as dean of the UT Austin SoA for 15 years, has taught at Arizona State University, Washington State University, and the University of Colorado at Denver during his career in academia. He is credited with co-founding the Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism at UPenn in 2019 and has written, edited, or co-edited 22 books, including the 2022 title Megaregions and America’s Future.

You can hear Steiner discuss his career and decision to leave Texas due to pro-gun legislation in his Archinect Sessions #55 interview from 2016.