On May 15, PennDesign held the 2017 Awards Ceremony, where Dean and Paley Professor Fritz Steiner presented three faculty members with the G. Holmes Perkins Distinguished Teaching Awards: Sharka Hyland, Senior Lecturer in Fine Arts; Michael Luegering, Lecturer in Landscape Architecture; and Randall F. Mason, Associate Professor of Historic Preservation and Department Chair.
Hyland received the Perkins Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, as a visual communication and visual studies lecturer. Students have said, "she pushes you past the boundaries you set for themselves because she sees the potential in everyone and is always there to help you reach it."
Luegering, a Lecturer in Landscape Architecture, received the Perkins Distinguished Teaching Award, Non-Standing Faculty. Luegering teaches in the media sequence, focusing on territorial scale workflows and the demystification of data sources and data synthesis. His students have said, "He has the ability and willingness to explain the foundations and fundamentals and also communicate the subject matter's applicability to practice."
Mason received the Perkins Distinguished Teaching Award for Standing Faculty. Mason teaches on historic preservation planning, urban conservation, history and cultural landscape studies. He was recently named to the City of Philadelphia Historic Preservation Task Force. His students have said, "I appreciate Professor Mason's method of orchestrating the class to encourage students to develop their own viewpoints while engaging with the field's literature and contemporary practice."
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