Michael Luegering

Education

Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Master of Landscape Architecture with distinction; University of Cincinnati, Bachelor of Urban Planning

Biography

Michael Luegering is Principal at LVA Architects. 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.