Michael Luegering

Michael Luegering is a Senior Associate at Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates in Brooklyn, joining in 2013. He is a licensed Landscape Architect in the State of New York working on a variety of design projects and research work. He received a Bachelor of Urban Planning from the University of Cincinnati. He earned a Master of Landscape Architecture with distinction from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, where he was awarded the Thesis Prize in Landscape Architecture for his thesis Vernacular Pasture Lands | The Rural Design Almanac. Michael’s design perspective is framed by his study of landscape architecture, urban design and urban planning, as well as his extensive research in the vernacular of the American pasture and his Kentucky upbringing.

He recently taught at the University of Pennsylvania in the area of landscape architecture media and visualization, and has contributed to Penn Praxis work on Resilient by Design. His past work at Penn includes working on the 2020 ASLA award-winning coastal resiliency mapping project, "Fantasy Island: The Galapagos Archipelago". Michael was awarded the 2017 G. Holmes Perkins Distinguished Teaching Award for Non Standing Faculty in The University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design.

Education

• Master of Landscape Architecture Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2010 — 2013)
• College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning University of Cincinnati (2005 — 2010)

Companies

• Assistant Professor The University of Virginia School of Architecture (2020)
• Senior Associate MICHAEL VAN VALKENBURGH ASSOCIATES, INC. (2013)
• Lecturer University of Pennsylvania (2015 — 2020)
• Research Associate Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2013 — 2014)
• Praktikant Oficinna (2012 — 2012)
• Guest Designer 10TH INTERNATIONAL URBAN DESIGN, LANDSCAPE URBANISM WORKSHOP (2012 — 2012)
• Intern Reed | Hilderbrand (2011 — 2011)
• Intern Solomon Cordwell Buenz (2009 — 2009)
• Intern Morris Architects (2009 — 2009)