Steffen has got a Ph.D. in Architecture & Urbanism, TU Berlin, Germany, a AA Diploma, Architectural Association School from London, and a Diploma Ing., Mainz University of Applied Science, Germany.
Steffen is Founding Partner and Principal of si_architecture. Born in Stuttgart (Germany), he is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he is also the Founding Director of the Urban Futures Lab. In recognition of the international significance of his work, he was appointed as chair holder of the inaugural UNESCO Chair for Sustainable Urban Development in the Asia-Pacific. He was Head of two schools of architecture, Founding Director of three successful research centers, and Principal Investigator of several large multidisciplinary grants, generating over $15 million in research grants.
Steffen has advised over a dozen of cities on sustainable urban development, including Berlin, Stuttgart, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Abu Dhabi, Ho-Chi-Minh City, Oslo, Helsinki, Brighton and Reno. He became a licensed architect in Berlin in 1993 and founded Steffen Lehmann Architekten BDA as a collective interdisciplinary practice.
His firm in Berlin designed and built a construction budget of $1b, and was actively involved in the urban creation of the 'New Berlin'. He has many years’ teaching experience as full professor and as tenured professor at the University of South Australia and University of Portsmouth; and visiting professor at the TU in Berlin and Munich, NUS Singapore, and UC Berkeley. In addition, he has more than 35 years of experience in architecture and urban design in various countries.
