Stephen Luoni

Stephen Luoni is the Director and Distinguished Professor at the University of Arkansas Community Design Center (UACDC), an outreach program of the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas. He holds the Steven L. Anderson Chair in Architecture and Urban Studies. Since 2003, UACDC under his leadership has garnered over 100 awards, including Progressive Architecture Awards, AIA Honors, and Holcim Awards for urban design, research, and education.

His work focuses on interdisciplinary public projects combining landscape, urban, and architectural design in Arkansas. Current initiatives include scenario planning for transit infrastructure, urban food production, neighborhood revitalization, and an Urban Watershed Plan for Faulkner County (funded by the EPA). Collaborations with the Ecological Engineering Group and Marlon Blackwell Architect involve NEA-funded Main Street Revitalization Plans.

Luoni authored the award-winning book Low Impact Development: A Design Manual for Urban Areas and has been honored as a 2012 Ford Fellow and recipient of National Endowment for the Arts grants. He served as a review panelist for the NEA and the Mayors’ Institute on City Design.

Prior teaching roles include visiting professorships at the University of Florida, University of Minnesota (Cass Gilbert Visiting Professor), Washington University in St. Louis (Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor), and the University of Oklahoma (Bruce Goff Chair for Creative Architecture). He holds a B.S. in Architecture from Ohio State University and a Master of Architecture from Yale University.