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| Born | 19 June 1963 |
| Occupation(s) | Architect and urban designer |
Steffen Lehmann (born 19 June 1963) is a German-born architect and urban designer.
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Steffen Lehmann | |
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| Steffen Lehmann | |
| Born | 19 June 1963 |
| Occupation(s) | Architect and urban designer |
Steffen Lehmann (born 19 June 1963) is a German-born architect and urban designer.
Lehmann held the UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Urban Development for Asia and the Pacific from 2008 to 2010. [1] He now advises UNESCO ex-officio. [2] He was the Professorial Chair in the School of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Newcastle in New South Wales from 2006 to 2010, [2] and the Professorial Chair of Architecture and Head of Discipline at Queensland University of Technology from 2002 to 2006. [2] Lehmann is the founding director of the s_Lab Space Laboratory for Architectural Research and Design (Sydney-Berlin), which he opened in 1993. [3] He is currently the Professor of Sustainable Architecture and Co-Director of the Cluster for Sustainable Cities at the University of Portsmouth. [4]
Since 2006 Lehmann has been the editor of the US-based Journal of Green Building , and works as an advisor to various governments and municipalities. He holds three post-graduate degrees; after graduating from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London (1989) he worked with James Stirling in London and with Arata Isozaki in Tokyo. He has been a juror for international design competitions, such as Leipziger Platz in Berlin, Etihad Towers in Abu Dhabi and Harmony Point in Ho-Chi-Minh City.
Lehmann is the founding Director of both the Zero Waste SA Research Centre for Sustainable Design and Behaviour at the University of South Australia (since 2010) and the China-Australia Centre for Sustainable Urban Development, an international research centre co-located at the University of South Australia and Tianjin University, China (since 2012). [5]
During the 1990s, he was involved in the urban re-development of Berlin's city centre and has built large-scale buildings in Berlin's Potsdamer Platz, Hackescher Markt and Pariser Platz.
Lehmann is currently the Director of the interdisciplinary Urban Futures Lab, and former CEO of the Future Cities Leadership Lab Institute at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. [6] He is also a current professor at the University of Nevada. [7]
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