Lucien Steil studied architecture and urbanism in Paris and Vincennes and graduated as an Archítecte DPLG in 1980. He taught as a visiting professor at the Prince of Wales’s Urban Design Task Force in Potsdam and Berlin, and at universities in the United States, Italy, Portugal and Luxembourg. Together with Alireza Sagharchi, Steil is co-editing New Palladians: Sustainability and Modernity in Architecture of the Twenty-First Century (London: Artmedia, 2010).