Current Activity
Peter Droege has thirty years of experience in the practice, teaching and research of urban planning and design, with a finger on the pulse of major changes in the profession. His special focus on the urban design and planning aspects of major infrastructure changes, in energy and information technology. Since producing the major textbook Intelligent Environments (Elsevier 1998), he has achieved research success as the author and editor of four seminal books on transforming the urban energy system from fossil to renewable: The Renewable City (Wiley 2006) and Urban Energy Transition (Elsevier 2008). Recently released were '100 Percent Renewable - Energy Autonomy in Action' (Earthscan 2009) und 'Climate:Design' (ORO Editions 2010). His teaching, research and goverment advice is strongly informed by the insight he has gained in this work.

1976 - 1978
MAAS, Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1972 - 1976
DI, Architecture and Urban Design, Technische Universität München

since 2011
President, Eurosolar

since 2008
Professor, Sustainable Spatial Development, Institute of Architecture and Planning, University of Liechtenstein

since 2002
Conjoint Professorship with the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Newcastle

since 2002
Senior Advisor, Beijing Municipal Institute for City Planning and Design

since 2001
Chair of the World Council for Renewable Energy, Asia Pacific.

1999 - 2002
Director, 'Solar City' research development, International Energy Agency/Committee on Energy Research and Technology

1993 - 2002
Lend Lease Chair, Professor of Urban Design, University of Sydney, Faculty of Architecture

1992 - 1993
Urban Development Engineering Endowed Chair, University of Tokyo, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology

1991 - 1992
Senior advisor for new town planning and waterfront design, City of Amsterdam, Physical Planning Department

1978 - 1991
Teaching, research and praxis in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

2007
European Solar Prize in Education 

2007
First Prize, Hangzhou Urban Centre (Beijing Conceptext)

2004
First Prize, HKI Chongqing Plan (Axis International)

2003
First prize, Ningbo Cicheng sustainable new town, China

2003
First Prize Ningbo Cicheng New City Plan (DEM Beijing Conceptext)

2002
Second prize, Beijing 2008 Olympic Green Master Plan Competition

2002
Second Prize, Beijing Olympic Green (DEM BMCIPD BCT)

1990
Grand Prix, international concept design competition for sustainable design strategies for Japan's Sagami Bay, a coastal region of twelve cities and towns

1990
Grand Prize, Sagami Bay Nagisa Envelopment Japan

1987
Grand Prix, 'Campus City' international concept design competition on information technology and urban change, Japan

1987
Grand Prize, Advanced Information City, Japan

since 2010
Life Member International Society on Digital Earth

since 2009
Board Member, UN-Habitat Global Research Network on Human Settlements

since 2007
Expert Commissioner, Cities and Climate Change, World Future Council

since 2006
Steering Committee Member, Urban Climate Change Research Network

since 2002
Chair, World Council for Renewable Energy

since 1997
Corporate Member, Planning Institute of Australia