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 an active practitioner, researcher and educator. 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 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 is a founder and Design Principal at LVF Landscape Architects, where he works to develop a wide array of projects from civic plazas to nature-based infrastructure. He is a licensed Landscape Architect in the State of New York and Virginia. 

As the Co-Director of the Natural Infrastructure Lab, Michael works on primary research and development with several federal and state agencies. Michael is the Primary Investigator for the ongoing 3 year, $3.25M Urban Planning With Integrated Natural Systems(UPWINS) project with the United States Army Corps of Engineers Engineering with Nature Program. The project also works with the United States Department of Agriculture's Natural Resource Conservation Service to perform field-scale trials for plant adaptation at the Morven Sustainability Lab. More information on the project can be found on UVA Today, the UVA Architecture School News Feed, and the Natural Infrastructure Lab Website.

Michael teaches across the core program, from Studio to Ecology and Technology to Media. His current teaching includes a research studio participating in the Envision Resilience Challenge. This year's studio focuses on Civic Infrastructure for the Back Cove region of Portland, Maine. Coverage of this work, and testimonials from prior students in the studio can be found in Cavalier Daily.

Prior to joining the faculty at UVA, he practiced at MVVA and 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.