Newswise — Faculty experts in the School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin are available to discuss topics ranging from sustainable building and design to urban planning and energy performance of buildings.

Fritz Steiner, DeanSchool of Architecture

Steiner is a National Endowment for the Arts Rome Prize Fellow in Historic Preservation and Conservation at the American Academy in Rome. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and an Academic Fellow of the Urban Land Institute. Steiner has worked with local, state and federal agencies on diverse environmental plans and designs. He teaches courses in the areas of environmental impact assessment, landscape analysis and landscape architecture theory. Steiner has written numerous books, articles and papers, including "Human Ecology: Following Nature's Lead."

Michael Garrison, ProfessorSchool of Architecture

Garrison is a registered architect active in the design and construction of sustainable buildings. Garrison's research has received numerous grants and awards from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Renewable Energy Lab, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Department of Interior, National Park Foundation, Texas Energy Advisory Council, Texas Energy and Natural Resources Advisory Council, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs and Austin Energy's Green Building Program.

Werner Lang, Associate ProfessorSchool of Architecture

Lang's research emphasis is on sustainable building and design, building system development, building construction and optimization of the energy performance of buildings.

Kent Butler, Program Director and Associate ProfessorGraduate Program in Community and Regional PlanningAssociate Dean for Research and Facilities, School of Architecture

In recent years, Butler has obtained more than $4 million in grants and contracts for urban and environmental planning research and programs, ranging in scale from park planning to regional endangered species habitat plans and statewide growth policy studies. He maintains a research program in water resources, environmental and land use planning.