For over 20 years, Steffen Lehmann has been at the forefront of innovative sustainable architecture and urbanism. He is director of the Research Centre for Sustainable Design & Behaviour (sd+b) at the University of South Australia; and he holds the UNESCO Chair for Sustainable Urban Development for Asia and the Pacific (since 2008).

Steffen graduated from the AA School in London and worked as an architect, before establishing his own research-based and ideas-driven practice, the s_Lab Space Laboratory for Architectural Research and Design, in 1993 in Berlin. He holds a PhD from the Technical University in Berlin and since December 2002 he is a full professor and chair in Australia.

RiAus Involvement

TEDxAdelaide 2011 (12 November 2011) presented by RiAus